Blast to the Past! – ‘My Little Town,’ where was this location?
It’s humorous to see where “experts” in the music world thought was the location of Simon and Garfunkel’s “My Little Town,” the duo’s final Top 10 Columbia Records single.
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70s Flashback – The Rocky Road to ‘Rocky’
On the day Sylvester Stallone was born in 1946, the doctor on duty clamped forceps on the baby’s emerging head.
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Blast to the Past – ‘Calypso’ John Denver’s last visit to BillBoard’s Top 10 singles
Many creative people seem to have a muse that provides much-appreciated guidance.
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70s Flashback – Trials and tribulations of the Tucson troubadour
Linda Ronstadt has sold over 100 million records, earned 11 Grammys, three American Music Awards, an Emmy, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Blast To The Past – ‘Lyin Eyes’ resulted from an unexpected incident
This upbeat Eagles ballad tells of a woman entangled in webs of frustration, deceit and entrapment.
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70s Flashback — Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment results in ‘Saturday Night Live’
“Saturday Night Live” was Canadian comic genius/producer/director Lorne Michaels’s brash experiment, conceived in three weeks in 1975 as a refreshing NBC-TV alternative to Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” reruns.
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Blast to the Past! — ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ changed Glen Campbell’s career
As one of 12 kids, Glen Campbell was born in 1936 on an Arkansas farm with no electricity.
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70s Flashback — Ron Popeil’s ‘gift of blab’
In the late 1940s, Ron Popeil began pitching his inventor father’s kitchen gadget at a downtown Chicago flea market.
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Blast to the Past! — ‘At Seventeen’ resuscitated Ian’s career
At 74, Janis Ian has built a career on just two hit songs whose inspirations had come about under the most ordinary of circumstances.
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70s Flashback — Alice never gave up
The year was 1971.
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Blast to the Past! — ‘Jive Talkin,’ a crossbreeding of pop-music hooks and hip soul
During the first half of the 1970s, the Bee Gees (“Brothers Gibb”) were floundering.
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70s Flashback — ‘Mork and Mindy’ spun off ‘Happy Days’ episode
In the late 1970s, TV’s “Happy Days” shone a spotlight on the fictional middle-class Cunningham family.
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Blast to the Past! — ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’
In early 1975, Toni Tennille and Darryl Dragon sat in the Los Angeles office of A & M Records. Company executive Kip Cohen played them a track from the latest Neil Sedaka album, “Sedaka’s Back,” which was a “best of” selection of cuts lifted from three albums he had released in the early 1970s in London.
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70s Flashback — In Big Red’s Shadow
Not all rewards involve money.
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Blast To The Past — ‘Philadelphia Freedom’ was Elton John’s 4th chart-topping disc
A recording superstar + an iconic athlete = a million-selling song that made no sense.
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70s Flashback — Snatched from the ‘Jaws’ of defeat
As many of us probably remember, “Jaws” was a fun movie to watch.
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