This morning I was pleased to discover that the number of hits on my blogspot had taken a noticeable spike, I suspect in part because of the...

Last night my friend Tim Lucas took the time to post comments to my recent entries, “Bubblegum Breakthrough” and “DIDs,” a gesture that I v...

It is no accident that virtually every album considered among the greatest in rock history is not a live album but made in the studio. To na...

The collocation “Desert Island Discs”—DIDs— normally refers to a music critic’s list of revered recordings, usually consisting of ten (10) a...

Four years earlier than the above date, in his first national television appearance on the Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show , broadcast January 2...

Although there are rather sophisticated Site Meter services available for monitoring website traffic, I use only the “basic” service—in oth...

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh... Having turned 25 years old in January, 1960, Elvis would have turned 73 years ...

Most certainly 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) made Arthur C. Clarke the most famous science fiction writer in the world. I’m not claiming tha...

BOP GIRL aka Bop Girl Goes Calypso 1957, 79m 43s Trivia question: What was the name of the film in which Judy Tyler (pictured, left) appeare...

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 ...