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It must have been the year before last when I was enjoying a madcap musical romp through Thailand and its wildly imaginative bootleg EP scene — 7-inch picture sleeves that used filched images, with four songs often (but not always) by four different artists, produced in renegade fashion without regard
I’ve always appreciated how They Might Be Giants respect their fanbase and labor hard to provide high value for the entertainment dollar. While their music has always had strong appeal to a younger demographic, in recent years They Might Be Giants have released albums aimed squarely at the school-age crowd,
Very much looking forward to this Saturday’s special event at the AFI in Silver Spring in which Gary Lucas, Sarah Stiles and a stellar supporting cast will provide musical accompaniment to 1930s Max Fleischer cartoon classics, most notably Popeye and Betty Boop – a “spotlight evening” for this year’s Washington
ABC once broadcast a 4-part television special in 1960 called The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis. This was to be the hip-swiveler’s first television appearance in three years since being discharged from military service. Poster art by Al Hirschfeld, yes? At one point, Elvis threatens to get upstaged
Vintage Guitar‘s well-researched history of the Vox musical equipment company contains a particularly delightful side story about “wee” instruments that were designed and manufactured strictly for marionettes! Peter Stuart Kohman has the scoop: One of the most oddball Vox orders was for a set of miniature equipment for singing puppets, specifically,
Biller & Wakefield sound like a modern-day Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant on their 1999 full-length album, The Hot Guitars of Biller & Wakefield: “Martian Guts“ Biller & Wakefield (1999) Musician credits – Drums – Karen Biller Acoustic Bass – Brent Harding & Wally Hersom Rhythm Guitar – Ashley Kingman
As Martha Ross writes in The Mercury News/Contra Costa Times, cartoonist Morris “Morrie” Turner broke racial barriers in the 1960s when he became the first African-American to have a syndicated comic strip – Wee Pals – that still runs daily, despite Turner’s death this past January at the age of
I am very appreciative that Scholastic Video, in partnership with Weston Woods, has done such a consistently great job adapting children’s literature for the small screen and in a way that appeals to people of all ages. One such adaptation is the story of a fish named Swimmy, who shows
1968 was a great year for truck driving songs — “My Big Truck Drivin’ Man” by Kitty Wells “Big Rig Rollin’ Man” by Johnny Dollar “Gear Bustin’ Sort of Feller” by Bobby Braddock “There Ain’t No Easy Run” by Dave Dudley “I Want to Be a Truck Driver’s Sweetheart” by
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