Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks is returning to the station wagon!
While we’re waiting for noon ET on July 9, Little Steven has cooked up his own hot summer fun.
https://www.undergroundgarage.com/shows-10591050/show-1055-bikini-beach
Category: Music
Record Keeper
Joel Whitburn has passed away. Whitburn’s scrupulous cataloguing of the Billboard song charts is appreciated by many who enjoy popular music and the radio biz, pros and fans alike.
Whitburn’s determined realization of his obsession reminds me of Andrew Sandoval, whose impeccable work I enjoy very much. Whitburn tracked everything that charted, while Andrew devotes a great deal of effort into finding the countless obscure 45’s from the 60’s that never charted.
A DogRat Favorite
A good post is worth repeating. This one, with some added editing, is from over eight years ago.
Summer Stereo Spectacular!
Plug in and put on your headphones, click or tap “Playlist,” scroll down to The Guitar Ramblers and get started surfin’ and crusin’!
Even lossy compressed audio can’t obscure the seductive sound of Bob’s Sumiko Blue Point No. 2 phono cartridge. I’ll never get Jimi Hendrix’s knock against Surf music in “Third Stone From the Sun.”
More Mach Schau!
Andrew at Parlogram Auctions delves into the Beatles’ forced return to Hamburg in late 1962. It had been almost exactly a year since Ringo sat in for Pete Best at the Cavern, making it inevitable that he would become a Beatle.*
I have both an American and a German copy of the LP. Andrew prefers the German pressing, and so do I, but it must be noted that both editions are in that most irritating of audio formats, “fake stereo” (with Haeco-CSG processing being a close second).
This mono copy sounds nice and solid. Saying something is “SUPER RARE” is funny, because that’s no longer true the moment it’s on YouTube.
*All These Years: Tune In, Extended Special Edition, by Mark Lewisohn, Vol. 2, pgs. 1044-1045
A Month for Bugs
It was bad enough when the 1960’s was 50 years ago, but 60?? In June, 1962, unknown to me as a little boy in Wisconsin, Amazing Fantasy #15 was on newsstands, featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man.
Also that month, 60 years ago today, in fact, was B-Day. The Beatles had their first recording session with George Martin at EMI. John, Paul, and George, with Pete Best on drums.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/06/06/the-beatles-first-abbey-road-recording-session/
https://www.curvebenderpublishing.com/
Blog Post Extra: Someone has pegged the distribution date of Amazing Fantasy #15 as June 5, 1962, 60 years ago yesterday. Also released that day was the debut of another Marvel Comics Group bug, in the person of Ant-Man.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/05/60-years-of-ant-man-spider-man-thor-and-larry/
