Hey, did you see that Levi Stubbs died? It took me a while to get into Motown.  I think "Bernadette" clinched the deal.  Or maybe it was "Reach Out (I’ll Be There)".  I remember driving to Becket, Massachusetts with the Resnicks to pick up Doug from summer camp.  I heard that Four Tops song twice […]

They no longer sell CDs at the Harvard Coop. We awoke yesterday in Manchester to bright sun and temperatures in the forties.  On the drive out of town we stopped at a farm stand and purchased some Macoun apples and ventured into the mountains.  Where we found the foliage way past peak.  Whether due to […]

Greetings from Vermont!  Today’s plan was to jump on the Long Trail and hike to the top of Bromley, but Mother Nature messes with the best of intentions.  We woke up and it was me and Felice and rain on the roof (although John Sebastian was nowhere in sight…)  After cruising the outlet shops, we […]

The first two Todd Rundgren albums were released on Ampex, the tape manufacturer’s foray into recorded music.  The debut, with "We Gotta Get You A Woman", was released in multiple iterations, not intentionally.  Your cover might not square with what was on the disc.  What appeared on the second album coincided with the track listing, […]