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  • Bubbling Under the Boomtown America Hot 100
    Uh... perhaps the quartet needs to discuss a name change ...or not.
  • Woodstock Winners & Losers
    Over 55 years later, the 1969 Woodstock festival remains a touchstone event not just in rock music, but in world history. It demonstrated the massive influence rock had on the entire Baby Boomer generation as…
  • The Essential Boomer Album Collection Part 13 – Cheap Thrills
    An album almost as famous for its cover as for the songs inside, Cheap Thrills, released in the summer after the Summer of Love (i.e. 1968) introduced America to perhaps the greatest white blues singer…
  • The Story Behind the Song: My Generation (1965)
    The Who is a band that almost didn’t have much of a recording career. For most of their early years, the band members couldn’t get along with each other (particularly Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend).…
  • R.I.P. Shelly, Dolly & Tim
    Those who subscribe to the “celebrity deaths happen in 3’s” can exhale. Following the sad news of the passing of Shelly Fabares and Dolly Parton, we can now add Tim Curry, who has passed away…
  • The Story Behind the Song: Respect (1967)
    While everybody regards “Respect” as Aretha Franklin’s signature song, it didn’t start out that way. The song was written and first recorded by Otis Redding in 1965. A solid tune, it hit the top 10…