Posts by Alby

I have featured Peter Gabriel's song about international diplomacy before, but it seems apt today in light of all the recent media saber-rattling. Besides, I had forgotten about this cover…

"Baby It's You" was released as a single by first-ballot Hall of Fame groups the Shirelles and the Beatles. But the band who scored the biggest hit with the Burt…

Readers following the thread spawned by Wednesday's Song of the Day know that El Somnambulo has no love for the second Blood, Sweat and Tears LP, which spent seven weeks…

Burt Bacharach has written hundreds of songs, most from the 1950s through the 1980s. Of those, 73 have made the US Top 40. This one took the longest to get…

Michael (nee Marvin) Lee Aday, better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, died yesterday, age 74, just nine months after the death of Jim Steinman, who composed "Bat Out…

Three Dog Night is a band I appreciate a lot more now than back when they were popular, because when they were popular they were also deeply uncool. Listening to…

If John Denver wrote this song today he'd have to include something about getting his Covid test before being allowed to board. Peter, Paul and Mary were an oldies act…

The irony of Republicans trying to restrict the teaching of history when they're ignorant of it in the first place is lost on Republicans themselves, so they don't recognize when…

For a brief time, Veronica "Ronnie" Bennett, who died yesterday at age 78, was the hottest girl-group singer in the world. Thanks to producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment,…

Daryl Hall and John Oates reached the height of their Hall of Fame career in 1982, bookending the year with No. 1 singles -- "I Can't Go For That" in…

I'm trespassing on El Somnambulo's territory here, but I heard this on WXPN last week and I've been listening to it frequently ever since. While it's derivative -- what rock…