The Dave Clark Five — Glad All Over
Part of the problem with doing this tour of my record collection in alphabetical order is that, thematically, there can be some hard turns. We’ve just been through 11 discs by The Church, one...
Category: ’60s
Chubby Checker — For Teen Twisters Only
I don’t know the genesis of this album. It is in a bag from Peter Dunn’s Vinyl Museum, a spot in Toronto that we visited exactly once, in February of perhaps 1986, but I...
We’re Gonna Change The World: The ’60s Chicago Garage Sound of Quill Records
Another new one. I had never heard of Quill Records, but my history with garage rock compilations thus far has been that I have never found one I didn’t like. A lot. As I...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 3
Well, I already had Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, so yeah, when I ran across a copy of Volume 3, I was going to grab it – and I was also going...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 2
I have found more better blues records in the last year than I have in my entire life. It must have to do with the quality of the stores I’m getting to go to,...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1
Any hope of ever catching up on this blog is disappearing in the mist. I got to the end of the M section and decided to double back and cover all the records I...
Ray Charles — The Sensational Ray Charles
Not a lot to say about this one. I picked it up maybe three years ago here at Deep Groove in Phoenixville. On Coronet Records, it’s a compilation album from 1965 — but it’s...
Johnny Cash — Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom
There’s very little of anything that could be considered country in my collection, either on vinyl or CD, and although I like an amount of Johnny Cash’s songs, there’s an amount of them I...
The Byrds — Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
As I’ve said before, my weird relationship with The Byrds is: big fan, own almost none of their records. For decades, all I had was one 1967 greatest hits collection and “Fifth Dimension.” Yet,...
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