So, yes, things were getting a little too serious around here. For me, at least. The serious stuff was making my head bog down, and when that happens it’s time to go grab for the light smile. After all, there are a few of you now. I mean, an audience, who’s decided to follow for a […]
I’m just a sucker for Joey Ramone’s soft voice. He recorded one of my two all-time favorite covers with It’s a Wonderful World (the other is the former Student Teacher’s Philip Shelley’s unrecorded version of Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, which I had on a cassette tape for the longest time before it sucuumbed […]
American Bandstand meets Debbie Harry. She goes utterly cool, a McLuhan-like antidote to the hot mainstreaming of the Bandstand. The audience? Watch for the hot-body boytoy in the yellow form-fitting T in the front row. Just to be sure younger readers know, that wasn’t the typical look for the launch of New Wave. But it […]