Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3y7szTv SURF CITY TWO GIRLS FOR EVERY BOY! Can you even say that anymore? Is it considered sexist? They weren’t really selling the ratio so much as the California dream. But it’s a Jan & Dean song! No, it started out as a Brian Wilson song that Jan Berry finished and Jan & […]

Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3O7SZtK LETTING GO I was going to do this in order, but then I thought it best to start with the McCartney solo track I play most, “Letting Go.” It was the summer of ’75, the summer of “Captain Fantastic” and “One of These Nights.” The year before had been all about “Band […]

“The Best of Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective”: https://spoti.fi/3baFhYG 1 It comes after “Rock & Roll Woman” on “Retrospective.” Funny, “Rock & Roll Woman” was why I bought the Buffalo Springfield greatest hits compilation, it was the song that sounded most like the Stephen Stills material that generated such success, that was so satisfying on the first […]

1 It was not a hit in America. One of the thrills of going to London in 1972, besides going to the Chelsea Drugstore and the record stores, like Virgin, before there was a label, was the music press. Three weekly tabloids. A cornucopia of information. Nothing was that up-to-date in the U.S. “Rolling Stone” […]