Hard to believe - and I confess that I actually purchased this 1965 album - Herman's Hermits had 3 of the top 100 hits of 1965 - No...

purchase Ray Charles: Mess Around purchase John Mayall :All Those Heroes purchase Peter Gabriel :And Through the Wire Andy La Ray G...

I will admit straight off: I had to go searching for a song to fit our theme this month. Much as I love grilling, I really couldn’t think of...

Bo Carter : Pigmeat Is What I Crave [ purchase ] I can admit that a perfectly smoked brisket is an amazing thing, burgers from the g...

What's that then? Well, actually not anything until you use its alternate name of Soul Sauce, when it becomes something that would de...

Wall of Voodoo : Mexican Radio [ purchase ] I like it when a bunch of things come together to inspire a blog post. We’ve been ...

purchase Go Now I've said it here before: writing a post generally involves learning something new.  1965 was the year I started ...

Dan Bern : Oh Sister [ purchase ] There was a hell of a lot of great music released in 1965.  Other writers have posted about some o...

   In 1965 Johnny Cash recorded his 1956 #1 country single "I Walk The Line" in German. Fifteen years earlier, Cash was assig...

   In a performance that spoofs Laurence Olivier's Richard the III, Peter Sellers recites "A Hard Day's Night" on a 1...

This song is somehow so apposite of 1965, a gruff yet never more Dylanesque slice of protest, replete with frantically strummed acous...

Two classics for you in a short post before time's up for the current theme: I've posted more than once here about FZ and still...

[ purchase the Wrecking Ball version ] [ purchase the Live in New York City version ] I was on vacation in Nashville last week and was ...

A change from some recent jottings, as I ease myself back into something at least resembling a comfort zone, avoiding the scatter gun of ...

Big Bands—small facts: I am related to Guy Lombardo . Mr. New Year’s Eve and his Royal Canadians. Lombardo, among other musical accomp...

Apropos the last posting, and the conclusion that none of us should be without a horn section, this is something I have only recently come...

Rebirth Brass Band : The Main Event: Tornado Special/Waterfalls/Ooh Nah Nay/Rebirth on Fire [ purchase ] I’ve often, and probably ann...

What is most elemental about summer? For me, it’s getting out on the road and being gone gone gone. Like one of our other blogg...