“Silver Springs” Maryland: Musically Unincorporated
“H2O Gate Blues“: Silver Spring’s D&B Sound Studio
Gene Rosenthal’s Adelphi Records of Silver Spring
Track Recorders: Bill McCullough
Track Recorders: Silver Spring II
Rare & Unissued King Tracks II
90+ Years of Cincinnati in Song
90+ Years of Baltimore in Song
King Records Trivia: “Maxi-Tweets“
King’s Jazz Legacy: “Maxi-Tweets“
Ace UK Visits King Records Archives
King Records Meets Big Red
[i.e., Seymour Stein & King Records I]
Seymour Stein & King Records II
[includes bonus mini-Beatles quiz]
Calvin ‘Eagle Eye’ Shields: Musical Pioneer
Philip Paul: The Pulse of King
The Birth of The J.B.’s @ King Records
Quirky 45s That “Bubbled Under“ (1959-1976)
Summer Beach Read: Fun Fluff (1954-1979)
Rolling Stones Soundalike Albums
Jimi Hendrix (and Beatles & Stones) on a K-Tel Album?
True or False? Led Zep on K-Tel
‘Do It Now’: Ronco’s Licensing Feat of Strength
Willis Brothers: Giants of Diesel
Big Tennessee: Ol’ Truckin’ Tex
(includes trucking tribute to 1965)
Burton & Mooney’s Diesel Classic
Ann Jones & Her “All-Girl” Band
First “Women’s Liberation” LP
[posted November, 2016]
The (Inter) Galactic Twist Queens
When Pelé Tried His Hand at Pop
“Shilo”: First Pop Use of Toy Piano?
“Out of the Blue: Earliest Toy Piano Pop Recording?
“Lucky Ladybug”: First Pop Use of Phasing?
Earliest Melodica Recording ’64
“Six O’Clock”: First Clavinet?
Peppermint Trolley: Clavinet ‘67
Paul Beaver Played Clavinet, Too
(includes Emil Richards sessionography)
World’s 1st Dead Heads: Germany?
Bootleg EP — or — Just a Mirage?
The Dead: In the Twilight Zone
“Fire in the City”: Hendricks & the Dead
Not Your Father’s “Purple Haze”
“Your Own Backyard”: 12-Step Rock
“Clean Up Your Own Backyard“:
Elvis (Like Dion) Gardens From Within
The Great (Musical) Experiment:
Toussaint‘s “We the People”
Toussaint’s Pop Persian Poetry
Del Shannon’s ‘Lost‘ 1967 Album
Hop Wilson’s Steel Guitar Blues
Early Wailers: Pre-Island Years
Trojan Records History Highlights
Sonia Pottinger: Jamaica’s First Female Record Producer
Rocksteady: Cowbell Golden Era
Forgotten 1968 UK Rocksteady 45
“You Don’t Love Me“: Where Blues and Reggae Intersect
“1967”: Adrian Belew, Confirmed Believer
First Steinberger Bass Sighting?
Charlie Byrd’s Guitar Weeps – Due to Late 60s Social Tumult
Roy Orbison (is) The Fastest Guitar Alive
Jerry Cole: The Neil Young of LA Session Players
Andy Tielman’s 10-String Guitar
Los Straitjackets: ¡Viva La Instrumental!
Bowling U.S.A.: Ten-Pin Pop (i.e., Bowling Songs)
“Library”: Where Books Are Free (i.e., Library Songs)
Garlic in Popular Music (i.e., Garlic Songs)
Duke Ellington Meets Apollo 11
“Foreman“: Sanitation Engineer
Nashville Chowdown: Rice’s Great Image Makeover
Lloyd Green Stumps for Baldwin
Lloyd Green: “Mr. Nashville Sound”
(plus baffling backwards B-side)
“My Mary”: The Mother of Backwards B-Sides
Goldie & the Gingerbreads B-Side
B-Side: Called up to the Majors
[plus Chips Moman ‘Top-40’ Playlist]
Mad Magazine’s Multi-Groove Flexi-disc
Fabulous Las Vegas Roulette: Multi-Track LP
God Pop on the Charts: Early 70s
Weapons of Peace: Kill With Kindness
Brevity in Pop: Know When to Fold (i.e., Short Songs)
Red Simpson/David Bowie Tribute
“Guitar Boy”: Africa’s Guitar King
“Click Song #1”: African Pop Goes International
Ralph Emery Messes With Joe Stampley’s Head
In Hindsight, the Lawsuit Was Inevitable
“Games People Play”:
Bassist Wakes Drummer Using Musical Chops
“Desiree“: 30 Hours in the Making
“Plain Jane”: Mean People Suck
“Louie Louie”: Languid, Listless
The Most Literal Cover Version Ever
“Cast and Crew”: Cinema Credits as High Art
“Bob”: Palindromic in the Extreme
“Bob”: The Willis Brothers, Not Weird Al
“Weather Report”: Play the Simon & Garfunkel Game
Arif Mardin @ Muscle Shoals
(plus Beatles 1967 picture sleeves worldwide)
“Mountain Mambo”: Latinbilly
(includes salute to steel guitar on King Records)
King Records: Oddball Historical Tidbits
Tokyo Happy Coats: Japanese Pop on King Records
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