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• Cat­e­gory: 50s Rock & Roll
  • elvis paved the way for artists like ed sheeran (who?)
  • does link wray be­long in the rock & roll hall of fame?
  • follow my new pub­li­ca­tion on medium that’s all about elvis
  • should the crew-cuts be in the rock & roll hall of fame?
  • go rockin’ robin ’cause we’re re­ally gonna rock tonight
  • isn’t it a shame that pat boone gets no r-e-s-p-e-c-t? (or, should pat boone be in the rock & roll hall of fame?)
  • the first dis­carded and for­gotten su­per­stars of rock & roll
  • should connie francis be in the rock & roll hall of fame?
  • an­toine “fats” domino has left new or­leans for the last time
  • what ex­actly was a “rock & roll album” in those days?
  • rock and rollin’ with fats domino at wikipedia
  • I know, it’s only rock & roll (or is it only rock and roll?)
• Cat­e­gory: 60s Rock & Roll
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1969
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1968
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1967
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1966
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1965
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1964
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1963
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1962
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1961
  • the #1 hit records on the pop charts 1960
  • in­tro­duc­tion to the #1 records on the cash box pop chart of the ’60s
  • why the hell isn’t gene clark in the hall of fame? (gene clark part 4)
  • reis­sues of “gene clark with the gosdin brothers” (gene clark part 3)
  • when was “gene clark with the gosdin brothers” re­leased? (gene clark part 2)
  • the echoes in your head con­tinue showing (gene clark part 1)
  • a nexus be­tween a few old ar­ti­cles and their new ver­sions
  • guest blog­ging on “six­ties music se­crets”
  • a Freak Out la­be­l­og­raphy and price guide
  • a Blonde On Blonde la­be­l­og­raphy and price guide
  • donovan knows a beach where it never ends
  • get­ting back to roots and things (bea­tles ’68 part 4)
  • un­plug­ging the white album (bea­tles ’68 part 3)
  • sgt. pepper on blue jay way (bea­tles ’68 part 1)
  • in search of the lost mentor (bea­tles ’68 part 2)
  • how richard hamilton jazzed up the white album (bea­tles ’68 part 5)
  • run­away with john and lew to the tell it like it was a-go-go
  • yummy yummy yummy julie london’s got love in her tummy
  • oldies radio is more di­ver­si­fied and more fun than classic rock radio
  • are today’s pop song lyrics get­ting more re­dun­dantly repet­i­tive?
  • if you have an over­ture, do you also need an un­der­ture?
  • want to know one of the strangest records to top the charts?
  • is “street fighting man” the most valu­able pic­ture sleeve in the world?
  • trav­eling through time at 45 rpm (time travel records)
  • the kinks’ plastic man wants to be ten feet long like king kong
  • why aren’t the moody blues in the bloody rock & roll hall of fame?
  • the avid collector’s guide to wild in the streets part 3
  • the avid collector’s guide to wild in the streets part 2
  • the avid collector’s guide to wild in the streets part 1
  • wild in the streets as so­ciopo­lit­ical satire and black humor
  • I know where man­chester is—do you know who the hol­lies are?
  • around town and out of con­trol with lawrence bray
  • the kinks’ arthur album and re­lated sin­gles 1969
  • the kinks on arthur and finding shangri-la
  • wild dan­de­lion stomping with bam­boogie in­jec­tions
  • on brian wilson and SMiLE (a con­vo­luted con­ver­sa­tion part 1)
  • on brian wilson and SMiLE (a con­vo­luted con­ver­sa­tion part 2)
  • stax records’ main soul men of the ’60s: david porter and isaac hayes
  • david anderle’s won-won-wonderfully weird por­trait of brian wilson
  • “the wild an­gels” is now a quin­qua­ge­narian (happy 50th!)
  • what was the first “rock” double-album of the ’60s?
  • a com­ple­men­tary if brief surf raiders bio/overview
  • surfing gui­tars and in­stru­mental surf bands of the early ’60s
  • surf raiders discog­raphy & price guide
  • dick camp­bell sings where it’s at for com­plete un­knowns
  • sex, love, hitch­hiking, and other ex­ci­ta­tions
  • It isn’t how it was set up to be (the byrds 1966 part 1)
  • mike love’s ex­ci­ta­tions and good vi­bra­tions
  • can­taloupe eyes come to me tonight
  • the once but now not so elu­sive bob bind
  • sh­eryl crow on the dawn of dark­ness and the blood upon our hands
  • be­tween the but­tons and the dan­de­lion, we love you!
  • God damn the pusher man
  • com­plete davie allan & the ar­rows 45 discog­raphy and price guide
  • a few facts on the first buf­falo spring­field album
  • on babylon falling (fin­gers up and crossed)
  • what do mick jagger and lawrence bray have in common?
  • is “street fighting man” the most valu­able pic­ture sleeve in the world?
  • the byrds’ mind gar­dens and out­ra­geous for­tunes
  • rock music videos of the six­ties – 1964: the moody blues’ “go now” as the first modern rock video
  • rock music videos of the six­ties 1 (in­tro­duc­tion)
  • video did not kill no radio stars (they was al­ready mostly dead any­ways)
  • a whiter shade of pale in some spec­tac­ular ruins
  • let’s all hully gully with pussycat a go-go!
  • 1,661 words on del shannon and his con­nec­tions to the british in­va­sion
  • tears are falling and I feel the pain
  • the re­turn of max frost and the troopers (is this part 6 of the pseudo-psychedelic chad & je­remy essay?)
  • of cab­bages and kings, of arks and at­tics (the pseudo-psychedelic sound of chad & je­remy part 5)
  • of cab­bages and kings, of arks and at­tics – the pseudo-psychedelic sound of chad & je­remy 1967-1968 (part 4)
  • of cab­bages and kings, of arks and at­tics – the pseudo-psychedelic sound of chad & je­remy 1967-1968 (part 3)
  • of cab­bages and kings, of arks and at­tics – the pseudo-psychedelic sound of chad & je­remy 1967-1968 (part 2)
  • of cab­bages and kings, of arks and at­tics – the pseudo-psychedelic sound of chad & je­remy 1967-1968 (part 1)
  • donovan zen moun­tains snails and garden gates
  • duke duke duke duke of earl
  • whose re­sponse to whom with the stones-beatles-beach boys con­nec­tion
  • the trans­mo­gri­fi­ca­tion of free will into jukin’ bone
  • was petula clark the best fe­male pop singer of the ’60s?
  • are we for­get­ting the pseudo-psychedelic six­ties?
  • when jackie de­shannon walks in the room she’s got zest ap­peal
  • just how many people have died from a mar­i­juana over­dose?
• Cat­e­gory: 70s Rock & Roll
  • an in­tro­duc­tion to the punk note ideations of john yates
  • like, whoa, do the doobie brothers be­long in the hall of fame?
  • what is the beach boys’ best album?
  • the stairway to heaven leads to gilligan’s is­land
  • cap­tain beef­heart ap­pre­ci­a­tion 101 (son of sun zoom spark)
  • was beach boy mike love one of rock & roll’s greatest frontmen?
  • this was a time when it would ben­efit an artist to stand up
  • meet the new boss (true tales from the men’s room)
  • just how did david bowie af­fect your con­scious­ness?
  • 1. surf’s up as the first new age rock album (the beach boys flirt with ecology – part 1)
  • I thought they were the bangs, not the ban­gles
  • allan clarke as spring­steen trail­blazer (is this part 6 of “was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light?”)
  • the story be­hind co­lumbia 4-48405 (was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light? – part 5)
  • “blinded by the light” and the avid record col­lector price guide (was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light? – part 4)
  • “blinded by the light” off and on the pop charts (was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light? – part 3)
  • cut loose like a deuce an­other runner in the night (was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light? – part 2)
  • was bruce spring­steen ever blinded by the light? (part 1)
• Cat­e­gory: 80s Rock & Be­yond
  • is camila ca­bello re­ally more pop­ular than the pope?
  • the night I saw the ban­gles and didn’t know who they were
• Cat­e­gory: Au­thors & Books
  • a re­quiem for those time­less good good good vi­bra­tions
  • my re­view of paul williams’ “outlaw blues” for goodreads
  • talking with ken barnes on his ca­reer as a rock jour­nalist
  • on paul williams, the fa­ther of rock jour­nalism
• Cat­e­gory: Avid Record Col­lector
  • what is a “record album” and where did the term come from?
• Cat­e­gory: Gen­eral Ob­ser­va­tions
  • where has rather rare records been during the pan­demic?
  • the cheesiest semi-legal records in the world?
  • where was the “vinyl rap­ture” be­fore the “vinylgeddon”?
  • wikipedia re­ally messed up “music recording cer­ti­fi­ca­tion”
  • talkin’ ’bout the bleeding heart lib­eral pe­ti­tion blues
  • the ex­pense and in­con­ve­nience of col­lecting vinyl today
  • what is a sex kitten and where have they all gone?
  • ruther­ford chang wants to buy your white album (and yours and yours)
  • Let’s do the “tell it like it was” all night long!
  • an­nouncing a new pub­li­ca­tion on medium, “tell it like it was”
  • an­other er­rant umphred post bites the dust
  • on mu­si­cians who ru­ined their ca­reers (and lives) with “reck­less be­havior”
  • about col­lec­tables and their al­leged col­lec­tability and value
  • the dil­ly­dal­lying is over and “the end­less six­ties” is alive and well!
  • my first record show as a dealer (rock of ages part 1)
  • a brief look at the first fifty years of recorded music
  • something’s hap­pening and you don’t know what it is!
  • th­elo­nious monk co­lumbia album discog­raphy & price guide
  • where to find the closest record shows of america
  • real rarity, rel­a­tive rarity, and the “wow!” factor
  • soulful am­biva­lence and the world’s most ex­pen­sive turntable
  • the avid col­lec­tors’ guide to wild in the streets part 4
  • michael sowa ain’t never caught a rabbit and he ain’t no friend of mine
  • the day I un­cov­ered the se­cret of the uni­verse (and then forgot it)
  • hy­per­bolic ex­ag­ger­a­tion in pop cul­ture and miss patsy cline
  • on brian wilson and SMiLE (a con­vo­luted con­ver­sa­tion part 3)
  • the his­tory of rock & roll in a nut­shell (300 words or less)
  • bravi bra­vata and the south they all ig­nore!
  • a blog for those who never gave up their turnta­bles
  • the frank daniels discogra­phies & la­be­l­o­gra­phies project
  • un­der­standing riaa gold and plat­inum record awards
  • the on­going damna­tion of faust (and a lesson on selling on ebay)
  • be­ware fake bowie and prince au­to­graphs and mem­o­ra­bilia
  • ebay buyer scams and ship­ping items in­ter­na­tion­ally
  • every ebay buyer should know this now!
  • bass players and beethoven’s im­mor­tally beloved ninth
  • did sid vi­cious, elvis, and sinatra re­ally do it their way?
  • look, pa! I’m somebody’s blog of the month!
  • I’ll give you a hun­dred bucks for it right now!
  • fighting over jutta hipp at a record col­lec­tors con­ven­tion
  • the forward-slash/hyphen co­nun­drum re­solved
  • how to pack a record for ship­ping
  • how to meet girls at record col­lec­tors con­ven­tions
  • dads and hollysiz let the light come through
  • a few fav­erave al­bums of the cut-out era
  • on my first price guide
  • listen people to what I say
  • linked in with cheryl pawelski, record pro­ducer and col­lector
  • chan­neling the rich sonic palette of george martin
  • on grading records for sale part 1: ‘still sealed’ and ‘mint’ are not the same thing
  • there’s the rub and it’s all taken care of with a san­ford magic rub
  • col­lec­tors col­lect to col­lect (be­cause the col­lector wants what the col­lector wants)
  • man­age­rial prob­lems faced by a rock & roll band
  • and we’ve got to text our­selves back to the garden
  • fake au­to­graphed rock mem­o­ra­bilia sold at charity fundraisers
  • the great mis­priced record sale
  • some com­monly mis­used terms in record col­lecting
  • on de­ter­mining col­lec­tability value rather rare records
• Cat­e­gory: Jazz
  • the trans­fig­u­ra­tion of young man mose al­lison
  • the glo­rious life and in­glo­rious death of jaco pas­to­rius
• Cat­e­gory: Mis­cel­la­neous
• Cat­e­gory: Movies & Tele­vi­sion
  • did paul mc­cartney re­ally blow his mind out in a car in 1966?
  • three nights three movies
  • ken thorne chose the chase in the tyrol to the bitter end
• Cat­e­gory: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  • why are non-rock artists in the rock & roll hall of fame?