Tommy James & The Shondells — Travelin’
It’s my opinion that this is in its own way the finest Tommy James & The Shondells album. It didn’t produce any big hits (although “She” got to #23, and “Gotta Get Back to...
Ramblings about My Records
It’s my opinion that this is in its own way the finest Tommy James & The Shondells album. It didn’t produce any big hits (although “She” got to #23, and “Gotta Get Back to...
As I’ve said in previous entries, in the the spring of 1980, I was all about Tommy James and the Shondells, and all about the ’60s. Clearly, that path had already been made by...
After two greatest hits records, I finally delve into a full Tommy James and the Shondells album, one of three records they put out in 1969. You could say this hits up on the...
If you thought I was done with tantalizing tales of the few months that we lived in Syracuse University’s Seneca Apartments with the last entry, you were mistaken. As I said, I associate every...
It’s possible (nay: probable) that I bought all my Tommy James records in the same few months, during the spring semester of 1980, because I associate every one of these albums with an apartment...
In a recent online discussion with some local fellow music afficionados, someone opined that for them, the soul music pyramid had Stax/Volt records at the top, followed by Philly soul, with Motown in third...
I’m not sure I can begin to express how much this album spoke to me when it came out in 1989, and how much it continues to to this day. It’s a latter-day “Quadrophenia”...
I can’t think of an album that came out in 1986 that was more amazing, more important to me. And that was the year Elvis Costello’s “King of America” came out, so that’s saying...
Just months after “Mike’s Murder,” this sensational album came out in March 1984; I have strong associations of this album with spring thaws and the smell of that cool air as the snow melts,...
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