The oldsters and the wannabes are convinced that Spotify is ripping them off, when the facts say completely the opposite. But nothing can convince them otherwise. The most insightful article this week was in the “New York Times”: “Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’ – Britain is reporting more than […]

Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3jmOoHf I was listening to the Top 100 of the 1964 “Billboard” chart on shuffle. And I heard “Baby, I Need Your Loving.” Now the truth is 1964 was absolutely dripping with hits. Go back and you’ll be astounded. To the point where you were not starving for great new music, it was […]

There’s just not that much money in it anymore. I wish the problem was streaming, I wish there was a single oppressor keeping players from scraping by. But there’s not. Times have changed, the cultural landscape is so different that anyone from the pre-internet era would not be able to fathom the business. Anyone who […]

Subject: my Charlie Watts story While I was a college music student in the mid 1970s I had a summer job as record clerk at a Sam Goody record store in midtown Manhattan.  My job was to keep the shelves and racks of LPs, cassettes and 8-tracks organized and to assist shoppers in finding what […]