In 1965 two young film students at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the summer after their graduation, the pianist talked the poet into forming a band and The Doors were formed. The pianist was Ray Manzarek and the vocalist was Jim Morrison. Ray and Jim quickly added drummer John Densmore and guitarist [...]
Today is the 69th birthday of Joe Cocker a rocker whose voice and mannerisms we all came to know and love in the Sixties, particularly John Belushi, who did a wicked impersonation of Joe. Wathc it here. Anyway, there are a couple of Joe’s albums in my collection and he introduced me to Leon Russell. Here’s [...]
So some days I look over the music events that happened on that day and the birthdays and thoughts and music just pop into my head and the writing just flows. Today is not one of them! Today’s birthdays include: Mickey Newbury (1940) I have a couple of his albums in my collection and he was [...]
Ok so this morning I’m finding it difficult to get back into the swing of things after the Graduation Weekend at William and Mary. What do I write about Today in Music? The death of Frank Sinatra in 1998 of a heart attack at the age of 82 or the death of Yardbirds vocalist Keith [...]
So on this date in 1948 Steve Winwood was born (wait-Steve Winwood is only 3 years older than me!) When he was performing “I’m a Man” with Spencer Davis in the early 60s he was only three years older than me? And when he was making hits with Traffic and then Blind Faith he was [...]
Ok so there are two birthdays that stand out to me this morning. The first one is Donovan and the second one Dave Mason, both were born on this date in 1946. Initially, I was going to write about Donovan and for some reason the song that popped into my head and is still spinning [...]
So after thinking that Saturday was Richie Furay’s birthday because,that’s what I read at one website, and writing a nice long post then, now, that it is his birthday I forget everything that I wrote!! I do know though that I thank him for all the great music through the years! Albums from Buffalo Springfield, [...]
So on May 6, 1937, my father’s cousin Eleanor and her mother Irma Meyer, my grandmother’s sister took a trip to see the Hindenburg land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. They waited and waited and when it was too late arriving, they had to leave, and well you know what happened, on their way home they [...]
So I’ve spent the last 30 minutes or so thinking and trying to find videos in celebration of Richie Furay’s birthday. Then I go to Wikipedia and see that Richie was born of May 9th, so I guess those thoughts will have to wait a few days! Today is, however, the birthday of David LaFlamme [...]
Today is the birthday of another American music icon, the one and only Pete Seeger will celebrate his 94th birthday today! Like Willie what more can you say about Pete. He has been a huge part of American culture over the last 70 years! From Wikipedia: Peter “Pete” Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an [...]
