Roy Orbison – The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
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 […]
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, […]
Ohio Players was probably my first real exposure to funk. In 1973, just as I was beginning to be music-crazy, they had an infectious hit single, “Funky Worm,” that was […]
I was a teenager who absolutely worshipped AM Top 40 radio in the ’70s (which was the most diverse radio available where we lived), and to have been a Top […]
This is just a 12″ single of another big song for New Order – which actually hit number 5 on the US dance charts, where nothing else they did previously […]
As I said last time, for some reason or other, these New Order records were a gift from my college roommate, who I believe brought them back from Italy (two […]
My New Order records were all (as far as I can remember) a gift from my friend, former roommate and companion on our five-year musical journey, after he had moved […]
This is one of those things that has always been around in my life, and yet I had never actually seen the movie. Throughout my youth, the song “Never On […]