
Oh, the best-laid plans of mice and men.... I was going to be oh-so-stream-of-consciousness- clever with this one. After dissing sweet 'n' chipmunk-y SHAUN CASSIDY in the previous post, I was going to try and make it up to the man by posting two or three of his two or three '70s hits for your cheese-and-irony-stuffed delectation. But then I went ahead and actually listened to those two or three '70s hits. Ugh. Ack. Retch. Gag. Bad. Bad. Bad. And not even good, "Showgirls" bad -- just bad, "Striptease" bad. Sometimes, in shooting for [...]
I'M SAD ABOUT IT Lee Moses 1966 Available on : Time and Place [reissue] Castle : 2006 [Buy It] SAD TOMORROWS Marvin Gaye 1971 Available on : What's Going On [reissue] Motown : 2001 [Buy It] SAD SONG Rachel Sweet 1978 Available on : Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet Rhino : 1992 [Buy It] SO SAD ABOUT US Shaun [...]
Shaun Cassidy is yet again stung by his own good intentions!
From the March 1978 issue of Pizzazz , Marvel Comics' attempt to crack the tweener mag market: Writing music reviews is easy when your target audience is a bunch of starry-eyed twelve-year-olds who think that a Big Mac constitutes haute cuisine . Nice work, if you can get it, though I suspect the psychic toll involved in writing lines like "an infectiously appealing little charmer that rocks, rolls, shakes, and boogies" in regard to such musical luminaries as Jimmy Osmond, Leif Garrett, and Cassidy the Younger on a regular basis [...]

Today in Music History: In 1973, a long-simmering feud between the two Everly brothers erupts onstage during a concert in California. Their breakup is announced to the crowd by Don Everly, who completes the concert with a solo set. Howdy and welcome to Friday. Today DJ homercat is gonna spin some moldy oldies for your rockin' selves for a nostalgic trip down the old am radio dial. Actually I am a wee bit embarassed to admit that I own one or two of todays selections. [...]