A few weeks ago I began to explore the mondegreen , the unintentional mishearing of a verbal utterance enabled by homophonic ambiguity. The ...

Whistle [OE. hwistle ] An act of whistling; a clear shrill sound produced by forcing the breath through the narrow opening made by contract...

The sad news arrived yesterday that British actress Hazel Court died at age 82. I never met her, although she was very supportive of my and ...

You never know what’s going to turn up at a Goodwill Store. While running a few quick errands late yesterday morning I thought I’d stop by a...

Joe Sasfy, who created Time-Life’s 50-album, 1, 100 song, Rock 'n' Roll Era series some years ago, emailed me in connection with my...

University of Nebraska at Kearney student Grant Campbell responded to an observation I made in my previous (April 9) blog entry, “Rock Hist...

Several blog entries ago I discussed Art Laboe's first Oldies But Goodies (1959) compilation, a collection of mid-50s doo wop and R...

There is a story that Jean-Luc Godard, although he despised John Wayne’s politics, nonetheless burst into tears at the moment in The Searche...

My friend Tim Lucas posted a comment in response to my previous entry, “His Master’s Voice,” containing a number of interesting ideas that ...

Although colloquially referred to as a “Leslie”, the Leslie Rotating Speaker System is actually a sound modification (deformation) device, ...

In his witty and insightful book, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) William Goldman, a highly successful screenwriter ( Butch Cassidy a...

Last night my fellow Video Watchdog kennel member Kim Newman left a comment on my “DIDs” entry (DIDs=Desert Island Discs) that I found so i...