In the 1960s record production and popular singer’s vocal style were as over-the-top as women’s hair pieces. I was listening to a Jackie Wilson record a few weeks ago and it really hit me…
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The Denim Box: A Time Capsule of Mid-1970s Pop Songs, Including Paul Anka’s “(You’re) Having My Baby”
“It was like the Warhol-designed Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album cover had a baby with an ABC After School Special” I often miss my analog life. Recently I purchased on eBay a carrying case for…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time, #6 – 10
6. Robert Goulet, You and Me Against the World (1976) “Robert Goulet out, Steve McQueen in!” In addition to being name checked in Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love, one of the great songs in Marvin Hamlisch and Edward…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #10: Enoch Light Singers’ Cover of The Doors’ Hello, I Love You
10. Enoch Light Singers, Hello, I Love You It might be hard for younger people to wrap their heads around the fact that Easy Listening music as exemplified by today’s unbelievable cover, the Enoch Light…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #1: Rita Coolidge Covers Tempted by Squeeze
One of the regrettable consequences of the end of the Easy Listening/Middle-of-the-Road (M.O.R.) era and the reign of singers who rarely, if ever, wrote their own material, is the complete absence of incredible cover…
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