All right, everybody follow along. Once upon a time, there was a blues singer named Anita White, who for the past twenty years has fronted her own blues band, and has performed on stage under the name “Lady A.” Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a country trio who called themselves Lady Antebellum……
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So Chuck’s return to radio … it’s really happening.
Background. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, my alma mater, Hamilton College, essentially shut down its physical campus. Students were taught via teleconference, and Hamilton’s usual extracurricular activities were culled for the year. All except one. The college radio station, WHCL, continued to operate. And that’s mostly because it was able to have a combination of…
Read MoreGEICO and the Mondegreen
A “mondegreen” happens when you mis-hear a lyric to a song, and what you mis-hear actually makes sense in the lyric, so to speak. Examples – When Jimi Hendrix sings “Purple Haze” and says, “Scuse me while I kiss the sky,” some people might hear it as “Scuse me while I kiss this guy.” There’s…
Read MoreHow the Cowsills almost became the Partridge Family
At one point in time, you’ve probably heard the Cowsills on your oldies radio station. They were a fresh-scrubbed, clean-cut family from Rhode Island who eventually broke through with a series of “sunshine pop” hits. Of course you know one of their biggest songs, “The Rain, The Park, and Other Things,” don’t you? And you…
Read MoreEverybody sing along! ♪ We all live in a yellow submarine … ♪
Every so often, the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine will make an appearance in one form or another. It’ll be on the big screen for an anniversary showing, it’ll be released on DVD or Blu-Ray for a special commemorative sale, and then it will eventually return to the Apple vault. Yellow Submarine is a fantastic animated…
Read MoreThat time Johnny Rotten called me a “stupid, filthy sod.”
I did one of those Facebook games the other day – the kind where you post three outlandish stories and challenge your FB friends to find the one that’s false. Well, here’s the story behind one of the “true” stories. It’s 1984, and as a college student, I spent most of my free time at…
Read MoreTen acts that SHOULD be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame … but aren’t
Every year, the same old story. Several singers, musicians and bands get nominated to enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and we all kvetch and moan about why such didn’t get selected or why so-and-so DID. This happens every year. And we gripe and we grumble, and life goes on. This year,…
Read MoreSo here’s a reason why you should learn about the Teskey Brothers …
My old bud from my college radio days, Jim McCaslin, forwarded me a website about an Australian rock band named the Teskey Brothers. Okay … interested … The Teskey Brothers were formed by brothers Sam and Josh Teskey in 2008, and they are a blues-rock group with several Oz hits. They just recently won three…
Read MoreAlan Zweig’s Vinyl documentary – a record collector’s expose
A few weeks ago, I watched the Netflix documentary Jack of All Trades, which purported to discuss the trading card industry and instead morphed into a saga over a son’s relationship with his sportscard-trading father. It was a little of each and not enough of both. And it reminded me of a documentary that, as…
Read MoreWe need to TRY.
I can’t watch the news any more without my blood pressure rising to TILT. The utter insanity in Alabama. The caging of children at the southern border. Our ecology is in tatters. And we have a micro-handed Cheeto in the White House. There … I needed to say that. But sometimes I just need an…
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