Jett Schmett. Girls wanted to be PAT BENATAR! The story is always the same, if you’re good-looking you get no credit. Now I’m not saying we need to have sympathy for the beautiful, although being good-looking is a sentence, something you think you want but don’t really, but the truth is if you’re an attractive […]

THE FLUTE It’s right there on the opening cut of their debut album, “My Sunday Feeling.” Forget me-too culture, Jethro Tull was original! Name one other band not only dominated by flute, but one where it was played by its frontman! Sure, you occasionally heard the flute on glorious tracks like the Blues Project’s “Flute […]

Find the end of the rainbow Fly wherever the winds blow Laugh at life like a sideshow Just what you need to make you feel better John Miles never broke through in America, but he’s a star in my book, because he sings lead on “(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether”! Huh? Once […]

1. “This Diamond Ring” Gary Lewis & the Playboys Cowritten by our Lefsetz favorite, Al Kooper. However, Al was horrified by this take until the royalty checks started piling in. Al saw it as a soul number. And I’m including Al’s take from his 1977 album “Act Like Nothing’s Wrong,” check it out. But Gary […]