Thanks for the Levi Stubbs tributes, thanks for "Levi Stubbs' Tears" Dewey, really touching. I'm missing him already, and this morning I'm missing my dad too. More and more videos of him keep popping up on Youtube, including this one, which I came across yesterday. I'm posting it because i...

Killer Joe has now been displaced, in my head, by Ahab The Arab!
And that strange, fabulous version of Misty ... was that a hit?
I've never heard it before ...
Ray Stevens rules!!!

I didn't make the connection, having always assumed
that "Killer Joe" was sung by an early 60's girl group!
(who I never heard of) ...
Just listened to Killer Joe again. It will now be lodged in
my head for the rest of the day!

Starting the day with doo-wop and Roger Miller ... a combination that can't be beat! Thanks you guys!!!! Here's a really peculiar 1960 version of "Little Darlin" I stumbled upon in my Youtube wanderings ... performed by the Rocky Fellers on the Dinah Shore Show. The Rocky Fellers start per...

I just made a most bizarre discovery on Youtube that I feel compelled to share ... it's not exactly a music video, but it does feature Bob Dylan ... being interviewed (and being stunningly obnoxious) on a late night radio show I often listened to in 1966, in New York, when I was in 8th Grade. At the...

If that's a recent photo, you would appear to be wise beyond your years, then again, you're in San Fran and that would certainly help explain your wisdom! ... Dear Hollis, If you consider 1965 "recent" ... then, yes indeed, it IS a recent photo! I'm not sure living in San Francisco imbues ...

And may I add Jimmy Dean's
Big Bad John

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At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man ...

Accidentally Like A Martyr Warren Zevon (yucky video, great song!) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShA5Ui5yA3s[/youtube] Sweet Melissa The Allman Brothers [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwbowi-8Yoo&feature=related [/youtube] These Days Jackson Browne [youtube]http://www.youtube...

Moving right along ...
... Dolly Parton in 1974, appearing on "Hee Haw" ...
"I Will Always Love You"


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In a MOROSE MOOD this autumnal Saturday morning in the City By The Bay, I'm compiling a list of of my Top 10 love-sick "cry in your beer" (although not at 10:00 a.m.!) songs ... ... starting with the Linda Ronstadt version of "Love Has No Pride" ... ... featuring Linda's extreme ...

A few selections from my decades-long obsession with WALK AWAY RENEE The Left Banke [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqBTzfcIk4[/youtube] The Four Tops [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71v8rutfFRQ&feature=related[/youtube] David Cassidy! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlo...

You guys are freaking me out ... Ian Whitcomb??? Freddie and the Dreamers??? I feel like I've fallen into some 7th grade time warp! a few more I haven't heard 10 billion times in these intervening years ... The Beau Brummels Laugh Laugh [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBf38X16KM[/youtube] T...

Especially for Dewey this Monday morning: The Volumes! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT2dpCJDMbw[/youtube] And in honor of Paul Newman here's the great Maxine Nightingale song "Right Back Where We Started From" - featured on the soundtrack of Slapshot ... one of my all-time favor...

I used to listen to that 45 of Topsy, Part II when I was seven years old! I remember playing it on my little record player, and being scared to death by it (something sinister about the voice at the very beginning? Is it Cozy Cole's voice?) I'd scare myself with it and then play it again. This got m...

I'm feeling a need to erase the memory of that hideous Mamie Van Doren video (and the sound of her VOICE ... reverberating in my head) with some classier fare, Godard-style. I've never seen the movie (Band Of Outsiders) but can't stop watching this clip ... it's too cool! [youtube]http://www.youtube...