Jackie DeShannon — Put A Little Love In Your Heart
I’ve always had a weak spot for Jackie DeShannon. Her version of Bacharach/David’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love” is one of the earliest songs I really have a memory of. While it...
Category: Pop
Jim Croce — Photographs & Memories
I first woke up to popular music just about the time I entered seventh grade, 1972-73. I had been given an AM clock radio and suddenly the whole world of AM Top 40 radio...
Marshall Crenshaw — Stranger and Stranger
There’s not a lot to say about this one — it’s a three-song single (Discogs calls it an EP) that Marshall Crenshaw was selling at one of his shows here at Steel City Coffeehouse....
Marshall Crenshaw – Downtown
This one’s brand spanking new. To me, that is. The album itself came out in 1985, and despite another change in production and direction, it didn’t do very much. If I even noticed that...
Marshall Crenshaw — Field Day
Last time, I simply gushed about my love for Marshall Crenshaw. That first album of his was one of the absolutely definitive albums of my final college year, a ray of new, happy music...
The Creeps — Enjoy The Creeps
This was actually the first record by the Creeps, from 1986. After discovering “Now Dig This!” back in February, I knew I had seen another Creeps record in that magical bin of ’80s wonders...
The Creeps — Now Dig This!
A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...
The Cowsills – The Cowsills in Concert
Talk about a hairpin turn – from Cowboy Junkies to The Cowsills. Sheesh. The movie “Hair” came out in early 1979, 11 years after the Broadway musical about a draftee meeting a tribe of...
Elvis Costello — Spike
In 1989, Elvis Costello released “Spike,” one of the few times I have really anticipated an album, really wanted it the moment it came out. I tend not to get excited about new material...
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