Gene Pitney – 20 Greatest Hits
Back in the days when I was working in a printing plant, one of the worst things about the job was the radio. In a job that was mostly manual […]
Back in the days when I was working in a printing plant, one of the worst things about the job was the radio. In a job that was mostly manual […]
Okay, yes, Michelle Phillips is a very famous, very talented singer in one of the most iconic groups of the ’60s, The Mamas and The Papas. She was also, for […]
When i was a teen in the ’70s, there was no label sound more recognizable, more successful, than Philadelphia International, “The Sound of Philadelphia.” Where Motown had been probably the […]
When my college roommate Danny and I were absolutely record-crazy, we were hot for just about anything we could remember fondly from our youth. Memories of songs like “Indiana Wants […]
Well, I didn’t own this record until the exact moment I was getting ready to write up the next record, The Best of Philadelphia International Records. While listening to that, […]
I’ve already written how late to the game I was on Funkadelic – it was too much for my teenage brain when it was current, and it took me many […]
Well, alphabetically, we moved from one very personally connected album to another with at least a little bit of a personal connection. I don’t think it’s this way anymore, not […]
This one took a while to write, because in my entire record collection, there isn’t a record with a more personal connection – because this is the only record I […]
I’ve already written about how I couldn’t have brought any Ohio Players records home when I was in my teens (see “Fire”)– the graphic and frankly exploitive covers of sexualized […]
Well, if as a teenager I couldn’t have brought home the Ohio Players’ “Fire” because of its provocative cover, I sure as hell couldn’t have brought home “Honey.” In fact, […]