Black Sabbath’s Paranoid was another album I got for Christmas 50 years ago, along with Who’s Next. Bass, guitar, drums, and front man, like the Who, yet with a completely different sound. I’m surprised they didn’t have their logo on the kick drum.
Tom Hanks’ Christmas show on Boss Radio 66.
Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom “Good Guy” Hanks is live right now, with his (pre-recorded) Christmas show.
The stream seems to be very busy, so be patient if it doesn’t play. I’ll link later to the completed podcast.
Adams Lane, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1967 — My brother Jeff had an inexpensive AM radio transmitter kit. He put it together and I helped him string up a very long wire for an antenna, out of his room to a tree in our backyard. Friends up the street were on the phone, ready to tell us if the setup worked.
Speaking into the cheap mic that came with the kit, then holding it up to the speaker of our Arvin record player, I had my first taste of being a radio DJ, playing a record belonging to our sister Liz. The kids up the street said they could hear us! That record has always been my favorite Rolling Stones single.
Perhaps taking their cue from the Beach Boys #5 hit “Fun, Fun, Fun” in February ’64, nine months later the Gestures made it to #44 with “Run, Run, Run.”
How could a perfect single like “Fun, Fun, Fun” not make it to #1 on Billboard? What could have held it back? Oh, right. February, 1964.
A lovely performance and recording of this French classic by Debussy, transferred with great care from vinyl.
