The Beatles – Meet The Beatles!
“Meet The Beatles!” was released Jan. 20, 1964. That was just 20 days before their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Vee-Jay album “Introducing… The Beatles (Vee-Jay’s version of “Please Please Me”)” was...
Category: ’60s
The Beatles – With The Beatles
Unlike anything that was going on in the record biz in the ’70s, becoming a Beatles fan meant realizing that their albums were released one way in the UK, then (for reasons never revealed)...
The Beatles – Please Please Me
I started working on The Beatles entries thinking that I didn’t own their very first album, “Please Please Me,” released in the UK (not the US) on March 22, 1963. I also don’t own...
Prelude to The Beatles
The Beatles present a particular challenge for presenting in any sort of order. On my shelf, the albums sit chronologically, but that has no relation to how I experienced them, coming to The Beatles...
The Beach Boys – Endless Summer
Sort of like The Beatles (which we’re about to get to, in detail), The Beach Boys’ music was just something that was in the air when I was growing up. I knew all the...
The Barbarians – The Barbarians
Just a couple of entries back, we were kneedeep in garage rock with the Back From The Grave series. Well, here’s some legendary garage rock (from Cape Cod –not usually thought of as the...
Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Having grown up in the ’60s, I was certainly familiar with “Soul Finger,” and Bar-Kays (who somehow get away without using a definite article). They were session players at Stax and became Otis Redding’s...
Back From The Grave, Volume Five
The last of the Back From The Grave series I was able to buy back in the ’80s was Volume Five. Volumes Three, Four and Five all came out in 1984, though I think...
Back From The Grave, Volume Three
After picking up my first Back From The Grave, which happened to be Volume Four, I was lucky enough to find two more. Volume Three was next, and it’s no less insane and great...
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