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 […]

“The Quiet One”: https://bit.ly/3mJmjw0 I thought it was me. I have a hard time watching television alone. If Felice is there with me it’s no problem, but if it’s just me in front of the screen my mind drifts and I usually turn it off. I’d been trying to watch the third episode of “The […]

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 […]