According to John Tobler’s book, This Day in Rock: Day by Day Record of Rock’s Biggest News Stories (Carroll & Graf, 1993), Elvis Presl...

According to Joel Whitburn’s The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums (Revised & Enlarged 3rd Edition, 1995), by Sunday, January 24, 1960, t...

Based on the personal emails I’ve received as well as a rather significant increase in the number of hits on my blogspot the past couple of ...

Dead ants are my friends, a-blowin’ in the wind Dead ants are a-blowin’ in the wind According to wikipedia.org (one of many internet sources...

Yesterday, the day after I posted my blog entry on Sam Cooke, I received a lengthy comment from Cooke’s nephew, Erik Greene, correcting a fa...

According to information that can be found on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website , Sam Cooke signed with RCA Victor Records on Friday, J...

This morning’s paper brought the sad news that George “Buddy” Miles, Jr. (pictured with Jimi Hendrix) died Tuesday night, February 27, of ...

In French, the word is insolite ; the Italian cognate I do not know, but I do know insolite is a difficult French word to translate into En...

The recent death of former Kingston Trio member John Stewart at age 68 prompted me to look back on an article Rebecca and I wrote a decade ...

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER Tirez sur le pianiste 1960, The Criterion Collection , DD 1.0/16:9/Sub, 81m 15s If information found at the Internet ...

After two weeks at #1, Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (see my entry for January 4) was displaced at the top of the pops by Johnny Preston’s “Runni...