1. “Eve Of Destruction” Barry McGuire The Eastern world it is exploding One can argue strongly that music took hold, evidenced its potency, with this 1965 “protest” single. The Vietnam war was amping, the baby boomers were aging, everybody looked around and said…WE HAVE THE POWER! There’s not a boomer alive who doesn’t know this […]

You used to be nobody. Los Angeles and New York were a dream. Rather than build a shrine to yourself on social media, you became engrossed in media, in music and films, and you went to the theatre, to the show, to get closer. Nowhere as much as in Washington, D.C. Where there was a […]

Billy Joel by Fred Schruers It really was different. It bugs me that people claim otherwise, the youngsters who were not around and the oldsters hanging on by a thread. First and foremost, as Malcolm Gladwell said in “Outliers,” timing is everything. Jason Flom’s father may have been blackballed because he was Jewish, but he […]

YOU’RE NO GOOD The original version of this smash track for Linda Ronstadt in 1974/5 was done by Dee Dee Warwick but the one that had impact, albeit more on the R&B chart, was done by Betty Everett. Sure, it’s the same song, but credit the nearly-forgotten Andrew Gold for arranging Ronstadt’s version into a […]