As the contents of my head need to settle back into place, I'm pulling up a Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart from the early '80s – a period of my initial infatuation with music and radio – and checking out the debut songs for that week. So, here are the eight songs making their first appearance on the chart during this week in 1982… Billy Preston - I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye from Pressin' On (1982) (debuted #90, peaked #88, 3 [...]
It's been a grueling stretch at the office - and I'm still vexed by the realization that I use the phrase "at the office" - and I think a part of my cerebral cortex is still a bit glitchy from the rabbit hole Paloma sent me down last week. There's also a band who have dubbed themselves Cosmic America playing downstairs and anyone who might be able to hold a coherent thought in their head while a band that would think Cosmic America might be a good moniker bashes away is made of sturdier stuff [...]
Twenty years ago this fall my wife-to-be and I broke into a deserted chapel at our college to sit by the piano and make this song our own, staking our claim for the future and for each other through natural harmony and a shared sense of adventure. And now, if we have a song, it is this: a traditional English ballad which we knew before we met, that jumped out at us from the page that sunny afternoon, and, in doing so, guided us to forge ourselves as something more than the sum of our parts. [...]
Your Honor, let me just say that I'm not now and never have been a fan of Footloose . I mean, I do love many '80s movies about teen pseudo-rebellion. But a town where dancing is illegal? And under the thumb of John Lithgow. C'mon. Always struck as a little too Broadway. I guess it's no surprise that the movie made its way to schmaltzy B'way staging. Then there's the soundtrack. Somehow, I also never got around to making it mine, though I'm pretty sure it [...]
Former Stone Poney, producer, and guitarist Kenny Edwards passes away. Kenny Edwards - Guitarist - United States - LindaRonstadt - Karla Bonoff
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Kenny Edwards, a co-founding member of the Stone Poneys, died Wednesday after battles with cancer and a blood disorder. He was 64. According to the Los Angeles Times , Edwards -- who was instrumental in helping Linda Ronstadt launch her career -- was hospitalized in Denver earlier in the month after collapsing on tour with Karla Bonoff. The guitarist and vocalist was subsequently moved to a hospital near his home in Santa [...]
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Los Angeles-native Karla Bonoff began her career in the folk/rock act Bryndle. They recorded one album in the late '60s which went unreleased at the time. However, two of its members - including Andrew Gold who would score hits as a solo artist in the '70s with Lonely Boy and Thank You For Being A Friend - went on to play in Linda Ronstadt's backing band in the early '70s. Bringing the work of singer/songwriter Bonoff to Ronstandt's attention led to Ronstadt recording several of Bonoff's songs as well as helping secure Bonoff a record deal. [...]
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