Posts by Alby

The most quietly devastating song on Randy Newman's misunderstood album "Rednecks" reveals its protagonist in a moment of drunken self-awareness and self-loathing that goes a long way to explaining his,…

Question time continues in the Senate, but this question, posed 50 years ago by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, still hasn't been answered. This was the Moodies' second-best-selling single…

The Sound of Philadelphia dominated popular music in 1975, when records produced by Gamble & Huff for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and the Three Degrees filled…

Thanks to John Bolton, Republican senators are indeed caught in a trap -- a perjury trap. They've been lying for the White House, but the White House never told them…

Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old pop phenomenon from Los Angeles, swept the four major categories -- record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new…

I know his fans, which is just about everyone, have seen the latest Randy Rainbow video. It's funny and catchy, as always, but though the tune was familiar I couldn't…

I listened to Adam Schiff's closing speech last night, and thought of this song -- not just the title, but the sense of regret and resignation Rick Danko expresses so…

Adam Schiff's new theme song. If Midnight Mitch insists, Schiff and the House impeachment managers can indeed prove Trump's abuse of power and obstruction all night. The song appeared on…

Thanks to Moscow Mitch McConnell, anyone who wants to watch the Senate trial of the Marmalade Menace will have to stay up after midnight. I think J.J. Cale summed up…

Some say this was the first rap song, which would be quite a distinction for Chitlin' Circuit vaudevillian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, born 1904, whose "here come the judge" routine was…

Everybody who's old enough remembers the Dion version of this response to the twin assassinations of 1968, penned, incongruously, by Baton Rouge musician Dick Holler, the same guy who wrote…