Posts by Alby

Happy International Workers' Day, or la Fête du Travail as the government here prefers to call it. Workers just call it May Day. John Lennon once remarked that "Imagine" was…

Not woke yet, or just feeling a bit lacking in the wokeness department? Let the Boo Radleys remedy that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXPTnPmm78 The Boo Radleys were an early '90s Liverpool indie four-piece…

There's no other way to put it -- the French just think differently from everybody else. Paul Gadd was just 15 when, calling himself Paul Raven, he cut his first…

Does Weird Al Yankovic take requests? If so, would someone please forward mine? I think this Lindsey Buckingham tune screams out for use as a salute to the current world's…

EARWORM ALERT Were they glam? Bubblegum? Power pop? Sweet was all of those things and more, depending on the song and the whims of their writer/producer, Mike Chapman, and his…

Philadelphia disc jockey Sid Mark, host of the nationally syndicated "Sounds of Sinatra" radio program that aired locally on WPHT-AM as "Sundays With Sinatra," died this week at age 88.…

Believe it or not, kidz, this song was once considered a paean to weed because the first verse ends with the line, "Girl we couldn't get much higher." After "Light…

I hoped it was just rockin' pneumonia or the boogie-woogie flu, but the test strip says it's Covid. Lee Brilleaux and Dr. Feelgood claim to have a cure -- he's…

Yesterday I mentioned songwriter Rudy Clark, whose "Got My Mind Set on You" became a No. 1 hit for George Harrison in 1988, 25 years after its first release. It…

When the Beatles landed in New York in February 1964, it was the first time in the United States for three of them, but not George Harrison. While his bandmates…