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Fact.  In 1965, Hanna-Barbera – the animation company famous for everything from The Flintstones to The Jetsons, from Yogi Bear to Jonny Quest, released several tie-in record albums with their cartoons.  Usually they would do this though a third party, like Colpix Records, and all would be good.  But by 1965, Hanna-Barbera wanted to branch…

It was January of 1979, and I was listening to American Top 40 on my little radio.  And at that time, Casey Kasem announced that a new record had debuted on the Top 40 charts – and for the first time, it wasn’t a round record. It was actually shaped like a heart – and…

So here’s the challenge.  I’m going to see how many songs, each linked, in on way or the other, to Lewis Carroll’s two famous books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, that I can find for this blog. So here we go. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit Plenty of imagery and borrowing…

Follow along with me on this one.  It’s not unusual for two different musical groups to exist with the same band name.  But when one group takes off to superstardom and the other group simply has a couple of regional hits, well, it can be a bit interesting. Such is the case with this edition…

I’m probably going to catch a lot of heck for inflicting these songs on you. You know what? I don’t care. And I’m guessing you don’t, either. Let’s put it this way.  These songs were once big, big hits on the radio.  Yet today you don’t hear them on the oldies stations, you don’t see…

For those of you who have absolutely no clue who Ian Curtis is… shame on you.  Ian Curtis was the lead singer of Joy Division, one of the seminal punk/new wave bands of the late 1970’s / early 1980’s.  It was Joy Division that later morphed into the band New Order – you know, “Blue…

You’ve heard this a gazillion times. If you play Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” backwards, it will allegedly produce Satanic messages. And that by listening to these messages in the forward mode, the backwards messages will get into your subconscious and convince you to do things that you aren’t normally disposed to do. You know…

Here’s my problem. I get sick and tired of people griping about which Christmas songs should get crossed off the list. “Oh, I hate ‘Dominick the Donkey,’ I wish it would go away.” “Aw geez, are they playing ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ again? Give it a rest!” “Oh no, not ‘Last Christmas’ again?” Yeah. Heard it,…

You’ve heard them on the radio from time to time – songs like “Nights in White Satin” by the Moody Blues, or “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum. It’s a song with the backing of a studio orchestra of some sort. A song where the song’s pop music sensibilities are mixed with studio…