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Taking A Weekend Off 23 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Just thought I’d drop a quick note, as the Texas Gal and I have company on the way: jb of The Hits Just Keep On Comin’ and The Mrs. are heading this way today for a weekend of catching up, flea-market...
Wandering Randomly At YouTube 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
At least once before, I’ve mentioned that one of the fun ways I learn about relatively obscure records is to listen to one of them at YouTube and then look at the column of suggested videos off to the...
Andy Hilger, 1930-2013 21 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
St. Cloud radio man – and so much more – Andy Hilger passed away Sunday. When I was growing up, I’d hear his editorials on WJON, the radio station just down the street and across the railroad tracks f...
One Chart Dig: August 20, 1977 20 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
With my August affliction not seeming much better – it will abate within another week or so, based on my experience during Augusts past – I’m going to cocoon as much as possible today. But before I go...
Saturday Single No. 354 17 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
I’ve been thinking about my grandfather a fair amount these past few days. No, it’s nothing incredibly nostalgic that’s got me: it’s August allergies. A couple of years ago, when I was sneezing with ...
And At No. 86 . . . 15 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
We’ll take a break from summer records and memories for today and dive deep into some charts from the years that make up our sweet spot. We’ll take today’s date – 8/15 – and twist it just a little so ...
Summer Songs, Part Two 13 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
We’ll pick up today with summer songs, continuing from last week’s post that looked at the years 1968-70 as well as at 1972’s “Where Is the Love” by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, the tune that spa...
Saturday Single No. 353 10 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
We’re in the sweet spot of summer here on the East Side. Almost every evening, the Texas Gal brings back from the garden more zucchini, more cucumbers, more wax beans and purple beans (she tells me th...
Summer Songs, Part One 8 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
The RealPlayer hummed along the other day as I did a little housekeeping in the study, trying to do something more substantial than simply move stacks of books, paper and 45 rpm records from one flat ...
‘Orange’ 6 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
When we sort the mp3s on the shelves looking for titles with the word “orange” – the second of nine stops on our tour of Floyd’s Prism – we don’t have a lot of irrelevancies to discard. The search bri...
