Surprisingly, one discovers the word falsetto , literally meaning “false soprano,” actually has two different meanings at answers.com. One d...

Turner Classic Movies is showing some rare and unusual films from the 60s today for those interested. A couple of the films aired on TCM abo...

In music, melisma , commonly known as "vocal runs" or simply "runs," is the technique of changing the note (pitch) of a ...

Today, July 7, is Ringo Starr's 68th birthday (born 1940)--Happy Birthday, Ringo! According to his official website , the Beatles' f...

Introduced to the rock world at the Monterey Pop Festival , held June 16-18 1967, the Moog synthesizer was the most sophisticated and expens...

Having listened intently the past few days to the Band’s first album, Music From Big Pink (1968), today I found myself compelled to begin l...

Previously, in my blog entries of May 16 and May 31 , I have discussed my experiment of trying to listen to all the rock and R&B albums...

Perhaps one of the best-known songs of the decade of the 1960s is Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” released as a 45 rpm single i...

In yesterday's blog, I said that nothing could appear a less promising topic than the movie career of Elvis Presley. Observing that movi...

Movies are so familiar to us that they are widely considered nothing more than “entertainment.” Naïvely, we assume that movies are easier t...

I heard the news this morning that comedian George Carlin died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 71. Although popularly associated wi...

Improbably, this morning’s Los Angeles Times contained an article on the resurgence of interest in spiritualist Manley Palmer Hall (1901-1...