The world is still waiting for the Trump Phone. There’s a T1 on the back with a meaning that, I’m sure, is lost on members of the Trump family. It refers to digital telephony technology.
But there’s something else about that tall “T” bringing something to mind. What could it be?
Oh, yeah. This.
A tribute to the late Steve Cropper of Stax Records, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, and the Blues Brothers.
The Lennon Sisters always expressed their thanks to Lawrence Welk for giving them their start. But Welk owed them something too. After their first appearance 70 years ago, Dee Dee, Peggy, Kathy and Janet quickly, if not instantly, became the most popular performers on the show.
Something Palmyra Delran played tonight on Little Steven’s Underground Garage on SiriusXM.
Another one of the RCA Living Voices Christmas records in Stereo.
And in original mono, from the record I heard every Christmas, growing up.
When RCA was RCA, Camden — named after the New Jersey city — was a subsidiary record label. My family played the Camden Christmas records every year. This was one of them.
I’d never heard the recording in stereo, until listening to it just now. Here is a transfer from the original mono record I heard as a kid, and have held onto all these years.
