Grateful Dead : Operator [ purchase ] Manhattan Transfer : Operator [ purchase ] Alexis Korner with Robert Plant : Operator [ purchase ] Jim Croce : Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) [ purchase ] When I was a child, there was only one telephone company. If you needed any [...]
During several years as the head buyer for a very large record store, I had a few dozen label reps wooing me on a regular basis. As they were giving me stuff, I was receptive to being wooed and I got along quite well with all of them except for the one we'd dubbed Dodgeball. He went behind my back to get an order for some long-forgetten band called Space Monkeys. (no one needs 300 copies of Space Monkeys - not in 1997, not now, not ever) One rep who I always got a [...]
As far back as I can remember, skate videos have been one of the prime sources for musical exploration among our generation. Many still sit around talking about how badass it was to hear certain songs paired up with certain skater's parts. Throughout the years, hundreds of teams have compiled footage and edited to amazing and at times even inspirational soundtracks. What they inspired us to do is not the point, but rather what the music inspired the skaters in the videos to do. Most of the time, skaters were known to handpick their own songs, and the ones they [...]
Jim Croce & Maury Muehleisen Photographs & Memories - His Greatest Hits is a 1974 compilation album by Jim Croce, originally released on ABC Records. The album was released following Croce's 1973 death in an airplane crash. Read more »
I am a member of two Mix CD clubs. They're great! You get 12 people together and each month someone is responsible for sending the other 11 members a mix. You get new music, new perspectives, all for the price of the effort it takes to make one of these yourself and the subsequent packaging and postage. For various reasons, I wanted to put together a mix of American music for my latest mix. Partly, I was trying to understand what American music means to me, and what kinds of songs and sounds I find distinctly American. To [...]
I've got the love/hate thing going on with today's singer/songwriters. For me, it seems there's a lot of something going on, but there's really no substance. Almost like the soul has been sucked out of the songwriter. A lot of ego, a lot of faux sensitivity, a lot of rubbish. By today's standards, it seems that a singer/songwriter simply needs to know how to or attempt to tap into their sensitive side. Ted Garber takes that standard and crushes it, bringing back the elements of the craft that have been forgotten . . . storytelling that contains vivid [...]
The Hoboken trio records 36 spontaneous covers, chosen by listeners, to support to Jersey station.
Sometimes you hate where you live. When you live in New York, you spend a lot of time hating where you live coupled with loving it more than anything and telling everyone who will listen about your complex relationship. Living in THE greatest city can be the absolute pits, so this week's mix goes out to Aaron: a man who kicks ass in midtown for the "haves" of this faux world every day and may need a jam to help get him through. Mr. Murphy, we salute you. "The Old 97's - Niteclub" [...]
Bob Dylan & The Band: Long Distance Operator [ purchase ] Jim Croce: Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels) [ purchase ] Roman Reese: Come in Operator [ purchase ] Bert's post got me thinking about the now obsolete job of the telephone operator. Odds are that my daughter, who is now three months old will never [...]
This morning, I headed out to run errands and, as often is the case, Paloma had left the station tuned to the adult alternative station. One of the DJs hosts a flashback show on Saturday mornings, so I left it on to see if the year being highlighted hooked me. Jim Croce's Operator was playing. The song by the late singer took me back to childhood - small memories both good and bad, and one that I'd truly forgotten. Jim Croce died in a post-concert plane crash on September 20, 1973 [...]
MP3: Jim Croce - New York's Not My Home
Unlike a lot of music bloggers whom I read, I have no fond memories of going to buy 45s with money earned mowing the lawn. Many of these bloggers are capable of recounting with remarkable precision the details and circumstances of the first single they ever bought. I can't. I can tell you that the first album I purchased (on cassette) was Christopher Cross' debut. And my first live show was seeing a band on a tour that would be infamously remembered and still discussed almost [...]
Well I've given it some thought and after due consideration of such 70s Mellow Rock as "Chevy Van" and the realization that despite referencing political events of its day, the Sound of Philadelphia's politically conscious songs like "Love Train" are indeed universal (although references to the then nascent peace efforts between Israel and Egypt are less of an event today), I've settled on this gem from 1972: Jim Croce's "Operator ." I think this video does a nice job of cataloguing why this song will probably be lyrically if not sonically confusing (that melody will be pretty [...]
Love this song, always will... Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce : Five Short Minutes [ purchase ] Steve Goodman : Death Of A Salesman [ purchase ] Here are two more musical examples that show what can happen to a guy who involves himself with under aged girls. And again, as in my previous post, neither of these condone, but rather they show the consequences.
A lot can be accomplished musically in two minutes and twenty eight seconds. What that brought this to mind was a Little Feat tune I heard on my way to work recently: "Feats Don't Fail Me Now". It funks and it rocks & rolls and grooves...makes me wanna strut down a crowded street with a sweet hat and some big fat shades - a grin on my face. "GIT the hell outta my way people, I'm coming THROUGH!" I sorted my iTunes by Time, and found 37 tunes in my online collection that clock in at [...]
No, folks, I have not given up on this blog. I sincerely apologize for not living up to this blog's name this year. You'd think at least one post a month would be easy enough. For various reasons that I won't bore you with, I just wasn't able to. My second job has taken up so much more time this year than it did last year. Which is a good thing...extra money is always good. It seems in today's economy you either are out of work or you are working more for the same [...]
I've finally returned from my successful six-day New York adventure, which included job interviews, Girl Talk , fantasy football, mechanical bull-induced injuries, Risk , Dan Savage-narrated road trips, and so much more. Look for regular posting to resume tomorrow. Right-Click + Save Link As: New York's Not My Home - Jim Croce
death On Monday night, I filled out a job application for the first time in almost 4 years. It's for a government gig (Death Panel Co-Ordinator), so it was a pretty laborous process - I think I spent a little over three hours filling it out online. This was done, naturally, while tending to my current job. If I'm gonna spend that much time filling something out, I might as well be getting paid while doing it. The process got me thinking about songs that involve working in some way. As the resident indie-popper, [...]
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