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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Music For Dusting, the 1970s: A Gay Man’s Guide
In the early-1970s, my parents split up and my mom quickly reinvented herself as an Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore-style feminist. No longer satisfied with the limitations of 1950s-era definitions of women’s sex roles, my mother…
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…
Get Reddy, Part Two: Helen Reddy Hits the Road, Visits Jersey! Plus, Her Cover of Electric Light Orchestra’s Poor Little Fool
Helen Reddy is touring again! This bit of news will inevitably elicit one of two reactions: “this is awesome—when will she be coming to my town?” or “who is Helen Reddy?” These are both…
Leon Russell’s A Song For You: When a “Song” Becomes a “Copyright”:
There is a great chance that regardless of your demographic profile you are familiar with Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of the really towering copyrights of the last 40 years. Aside from…
Gloria Swanson Standing in the Rubble
I learned a few interesting things in that nanosecond it took me to research the origin of my true or untrue memory of this photograph. The 5,920 seat Roxy theater was erected in 1927 and was razed in 1960. In its day it was the most exquisite and largest of all the movie palaces. Interestingly, the choice of Gloria Swanson wasn’t random—the Roxy’s opening film was a silent Swanson feature called The Love of Sunya, which told the story of a young woman who was given the power to see into her future.
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #6: Robert Goulet’s Version of Helen Reddy’s Cover of Paul Williams’ You and Me Against the World
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…
Get Reddy! A Tribute to Helen Reddy Illustrating the “Norma Desmond Theory” of Celebrity Developmental Paralysis at the Apex of Stardom
If you’re anything like me, (and if you read my blog you probably are), you’ve found yourself inexplicably singing a Helen Reddy song. You might be walking the dog and suddenly start singing “Delta…
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