https://youtu.be/iHaeCNPxZ6M
Rock and Roll!
Little Richard, one of the founders of Rock and Roll, has died. It’s worth remembering that between Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino, the piano was just as common as the electric guitar in the early days of Rock and Roll.
Tommy Smothers tells a dubious and funny alternate origin of Rock and Roll.
Personally, I think that the feeling behind Rock and Roll has always been present in music.
Needs Must
The lockdown means we must be…
Ain’t I A Dickens?
Brit Wit, Not Shtick
The sort of humor that the British do so very well indeed.
How very, very witty!
Springtime Cabin Fever Music
A 70’s collection of songs about avoiding crowds, either by choice… or not. I played all of these, except for ‘Isolation’, during my AM radio DJ days on an Adult Contemporary station.
Eric Carmen’s ‘All By Myself’ is based upon Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Piano #2, featured 30 years earlier in the superb David Lean film, Brief Encounter. Written by Noel Coward, this deftly nuanced, devastating study of two married, middle-aged people who fall crashingly in love is the finest example of a truly adult film in the best sense of the term. Celia Johnson is beyond wonderful in this role.