This edition of It's All For You, Tube is dedicated to some songs from the 1960s by girls, mostly about boys they long for all very innocent-like, even though we all know what you do with a lollipop so who is anyone foolin'? Ginny Arnell "Dumbhead" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKkxJ qEaYc (duh duh duh duhdhuh...early mockery of mentally challenge?) Dodie Stevens "Pink Shoelaces" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFOza SQY6Q [...]
I was staying with my aunt and uncle while I visited Washington, DC for a few days last weekend. One night, my uncle and I were sitting on the couch watching some March Madness. It was a competitive, back-and-forth close game, but I couldn't focus. There were something else on my mind. "Uncle Dave," I asked, "is it really true that you like Abba?"

There are plenty of people who can take credit for the import of reggae into the United States: Millie Small, Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley , Chris Blackwell, your weird Uncle Frank who always had pieces of straw in his hair. But, Uncle Frank notwithstanding, Johnny Nash was probably the single most influential artist ever when it came to bringing reggae to the mainstream. Born in Houston, educated about reggae in Jamaica, Nash was also an actor in his early years. He did Hold Me Tight , I [...]

"Selling all my records. $40. Call 555-5555 for more information". He could've saved himself the $3 he spent for the newspaper ad and simply emailed me directly. Two hours later, I was in Dick's living room looking at "all" his records: three boxes of albums and a couple of boxes of singles. Turns out Dick sold cars from his front yard for "20-some" years and had some experience stretching the truth. Turns out that "all my records" were the 150 or so leftovers he hadn't moved to his girlfriend's 96-year old father's house. "The state bought [...]

Yeeowch. I just stumbled across a stack of remixes from E-Six , a Florida-based DJ/VJ/Producer. While I'm keeping a couple of them to myself for the time being, the ones on offer here are beat heavy slammers. Kenny Rogers gets his fat-ass slammed by a heavy breakbeat in We've Got Tonight , though it becomes totally epic when the beat drops out leaving only his crooning country voice atop a twinge of sub bass. My Boy Lollipop hits more of a funky, almost Bmore tip - definitely geared to be a crowd [...]

So Claudius Gothicus (Claudius II) rules the land. You want to get married but you can't, then you meet old priest Valentine. He hooks it up for you. Boom. Some time later a blog is started. This hallowed and famed blog is none other than We Are Not a Rockband, and on this Sunday in February one of the posters for said blog is feeling the love. Like my teenage self, I am making you all a love-songs mixtape (There is a bit of a nod to back then, see if you can spot it)(and by 'mixtape' I mean playlist, but we've been [...]

Originally posted May 15, 2008 "Selling all my records. $40. Call 555-5555 for more information". He could've saved himself the $3 he spent for the newspaper ad and simply emailed me directly. Two hours later, I was in Dick's living room looking at "all" his records: three boxes of albums and a couple of boxes of singles. Turns out Dick sold cars from his front yard for "20-some" years and had some experience stretching the truth. Turns out that "all my records" were the [...]
Haven't posted a remix rehash in a while but I figured it was the best way to ease us all back into the work week after the long holiday weekend. This one has a lot of layers suit your needs, from chair dance party to "one hour to go" amp up, doownload and get back to work! Skinny Friedman , one half of local dj duo Philadelphyinze , gives a subtle tweak to this XX track. Its smooth with just a skotch more bump to amp the sex appeal. [...]
Island Records started in Jamaica. The record label, which turns 50 this year, began in the back of Chris Blackwell's van, where he hawked ska and rocksteady singles, and, despite its migration into rock, hip hop, and world music, the label would never finally abandon the music that quite literally brought it to life: reggae and its precursors.

Little Stevie Wonder: Fingertips Pt 2 - 4MB Little Jackie: Crying For The Queen - 4MB Little Walter: My Babe - 3MB Little Richard: Lucille - 6MB Little Esther Phillips & Johnny Otis Orchestra: Misery - 3MB Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop - 4MB Little Bobby Riviera & The Hemlocks: Cora Lee - 3MB Little Willie Littlefield: K.C. Loving - 4MB Little Feat: Sailin' Shoes [...]