Posts by Alby

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…

David Bowie became the latest Boomer rock icon to cash in his life's work, though in his case it was his estate that sold publishing rights to his catalog for…