All articles filed in albums I want to be buried with

Honestly, I’m going to need another coffin for all the music I want to take with me to the next world.  And since this is a two-LP release … 😀 There’s something to be said about Frankie Goes to Hollywood.  Their group name came from a newspaper headline about Sinatra making his first film.  Their…

Time to add another LP to the playlist for the afterlife.  This one is unique. In 1964, Bob Eubanks essentially mortgaged his house to book the Hollywood Bowl for a Beatles concert.  And, surprisingly enough, it paid off.  The place was packed.  And in 1965, he put in for another Beatles concert, and it too…

Pianist par excellence George Winston is performing at the Egg tonight.  Years ago, I listed Winston’s seminal piano album December as part of my afterlife playlist – the songs and albums I would take with me on my next journey.  Today, I want to add a second album to that collection. In 1996, Winston took…

My unabashed love for the New Zealand rock band Dragon is unquestioned and undisputed.  That being said, you don’t normally expect the charismatic lead singer of a rock band to record an album of jazz and pop standards, and if he does, you don’t expect it to veer too far from what fans would normally…

It’s 1981, and I’m a senior in high school.  My music teacher, George Mastrangelo, would sometimes give us albums that he had acquired.  And, for some reason, he gave me this one. Now I had never heard of Tommy Hoehn, I didn’t know his music, as far as I was concerned, this probably came from…

Going back to the mid-1960’s for this one.  And it’s a bit of a twist on my post-life music collection. Let me explain. I had an aunt who loved this album and played it to death, over and over and over again.  And over time, I grew to appreciate the ethereal harmonies and cryptic lyrics…

The title song was a melange of classic Hollywood lines and sound effects, orchestrated by the keyboardist of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner fame, and vocalized by the lead singer of Yes. And it was the twelve-minute introduction of  a very cool concept album. This early 1980’s concept album, The Friends of Mr. Cairo,…

Imagine, if you will, a group of U.S. servicemen, who are stationed in Germany in the mid-1960’s, who eventually decide to form a band.  They record one album, make a television appearance on a German TV show, and then they disappear for nearly three decades. Yet that one album has become a major influence for…

Last night, I took some “Chuck time” and watched a drama club performance of the classic You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Heatly School in Green Island.  It was a fun show, and it reminded me of all the moments of participating in grade school and high school and college theater projects. It also…