The Sun (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
HERE'S the singles chart for the day the first copy of The Sun was published
The Boomer Chronicles (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
If you’re a baby boomer — and who isn’t, these days? — you may recall singer Lesley Gore. Well, she’s alive and still performing. (By the way, Lesley is one of the Boomer Chronicles’s favorite lesbian stars!) If you want to hear her, along with other 1960s singing stars like Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Little [...]
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
They have won in orange, they have won in blue. They have won in mustard yellow, they have won in bratwurst brown. The Broncos have made them all look good.
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Heart attack claims life of 1960s songwriting icon Much loved and immensely talented music legend Ellie Greenwich has passed away at the age of 68 after suffering a heart attack at a New York hospital where she had been admitted a few days previously for pneumonia. Born in 1940, the Brooklyn, New York native wrote and recorded [...]
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 26/06/2009
The large nightclub Guys 'n' Dolls that shined along U.S. 27 in the 1960s and 1970s will turn its limelight on again when it reopens July 25.
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 20/06/2009
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PowerPop (Free subscription) | 29/05/2009
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental fille de nuit manual catharsis manager Fah Lo Suee and I will be travelling to...well, at this point, I was going to insert the traditional sort of lame topical political gag, in this case about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, but to be honest the naked racism and misogyny being spewed by the Limbaugh wing of the...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 16/05/2009
Cue Lou Christie singing "Two Faces Have I"
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 21/04/2009
If you have successfully labored through the rather somber blog posts appearing here today, you've more than earned a couple of minutes of recess. So here you go. It's a delightful video clip of a local Miami TV show back in 1969, featuring the magnificent falsetto voice of Lou Christie as he lip syncs his hit "I'm Gonna Make You Mine." You'll dig Christie's vest ( sans shirt ) and the local...
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 22/03/2009
I promise I will sort this all out with a (semi-) comprehensive update Sunday or Monday. (Read: Tuesday, or never.) But I’ll go ahead and list what I saw tonight right now. I’m not nearly as over-served as last night, and yet, I doubt this will make any more sense. White Lies: from London, Eng-uh-lund, sort [...]
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Wearing sunglasses at night is usually just obnoxious, but at Ray-Ban's bash Tuesday evening for its re-released Clubmaster frames, the look was de rigueur.
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Photo from tonight’s crazy thunderstorm by Jay via the BHB Inbox Doesn’t it kinda remind you of this:
New York Times (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Mr. Young may may have the role of a lifetime playing in the musical “Jersey Boys.” But his career milestone could turn into a millstone.
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