Archive for 2026/09


Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

1 People forget that “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” went to number two for Gladys Knight & the Pips before Marvin Gaye took it to number one little over a year later, on the way to its becoming the biggest Motown single to date. And the Temptations released “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” […]

Janie Bradford

Who? Every day my father used to wake up my mother saying “Muggs, guess who died!” Well, not every day, but often enough that it became a regular joke in our family. My father read the obituaries assiduously, after all, he grew up in Bridgeport and he knew most of the names. Not anymore. Today […]