Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Is this progress? Once upon a time Taylor Swift became the biggest star in the world by testifying from the depths of her soul. And now she’s soulless. Shake it off? Isn’t this one step away from the rappers boasting how much better they are than us? I’d say […]

“Simon Says” 1910 Fruitgum Company The first bubblegum hit and I absolutely HATED IT! This was ’68, “Disraeli Gears” was making an impact, as was underground FM radio, and we were subjected to this drivel on AM radio? We were going BACKWARDS! Come on, Simon Says was made for first graders, everybody soon outgrew it, […]

Too soon? I was never a fan until I heard the acoustic version of “Push” on a Star 98.7 holiday sampler. You remember Star 98.7, don’t you? Where Ryan Seacrest got his start paired with Lisa Foxx? She kept giving him a hard time for being so metrosexual. To think that if it weren’t for […]

I thought I heard her calling my name I had a Norelco Compact Cassette player. Yup, that’s what it said right on the tiny machine about the size of a shoebox, but much thinner, with a speaker on top and a drawer for the cassette below. Eventually they changed the name to Philips and dropped […]