Collecting My Thoughts

The Crew Cuts were a Canadian boys group popular when I was a teen.  Today I was trying to get the cd player in my clock radio to work, and ...

When I was a teen, we had to go to the furniture store to buy records.  Listening to a popular song that was 9 years old would have meant—we...

Last night the program at Hoover was Michael Stanley and friends. ?? No, we'd never heard of him, but he was big in the late 70s and 80s...

I noticed a comment about the CW TV show "My crazy ex-girlfriend" (written, produced, and acted in by Rachel Bloom), so I looked i...

Charles Aznavour wrote "Yesterday when I was young," my favorite recording of Roy Clark, who died this week at 85. Clark was a pop...

Sometimes we old ladies think nothing beautiful came out of modern popular music, and although this is no longer new, especially not for the...

Best scorned lover song of all time, cross overs galore--blues, pop, disco--including the ocean from England to U.S. Such a talented singer/...

So many singers have this sound: someone is sitting on his chest to place a clothes pin on his nose. It seems to be both secular and relig...

Do the songs all sound alike to you? Maybe they are. Here's a fun way to review a little recent music history. HT Opining Online

I've been in a number of prisons, not as a prisoner, but as a visitor primarily following the same guy through the system until after se...

Lakeside yard sales I was headed for the Erie Road Mkt to buy milk and oj and just had to pass two yard sales! Got 3 fabulous CDs for $3--...

If disco had lasted longer. . . Maybe we wouldn't have an obesity problem? Boogie, Oogie, Oogie. Taste of Honey . HT, 2nd cup of coffee