Hi all, Happy Valentines Day! One month from today is the Induction ceremony of the following folks into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performers: Alice Cooper Neil Diamond Dr. John Darlene Love Tom Waits Non-Performers: Jac Holzman Art Rupe Sidemen: Leon Russell What a great honor! They should all be very proud! For [...]
48th Street between 6th and 7th Ave in Manhattan in the 1960′s was a wonderland of music stores on both sides of the block. Called Music Row, it dates to the early 1930s, when the musicians’ union moved to Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, and all of the stores followed suit. Today there are still music [...]
Those beautiful 60′s! AM radio was what we grew up on. Little transistors with the single earpiece at the beach, in the car, everywhere we wanted to go, the music went with us! Scott Muni, Harry Harrison, Cousin Brucie, Joe O’Brien just to name a few. What a great era! I remember driving in my [...]
While I was living in New York City, there was a lot of great music coming out of Long Island and as you will see, I had a connection to a lot of it! One of those bands was Danny Beline the Rich Kids. Money Isn’t Everything Danny was Perry Como’s nephew.The band was considered [...]
After looking through one of my old scrapbooks, I have decided to create a blog about growing up in the 1960's surrounded by music. I hope it will be a walk down memory lane for you as well! Read my story.