Talkin About My Generation!

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 [...]

Hello all! I hope your New Year is starting off great! I know you will find it hard to believe in the 1960′s, Macy’s had one of the best record departments! My mother worked there and I would sometimes go to visit her for lunch and she would give me her employee discount card and [...]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I am writing today to express my deep sadness over the passing of one of the legends of music television in the late 1950′s and 1960′s, Clay Cole. Clay passed on Dec 18th. In October 2009 I started this blog as an homage to my sister Denyse as well [...]

I have been thinking about how tuned in to everything that was going on in our world we as a generation were. Even as kids, perhaps because of the Depression and World War II, it seems we were given every opportunity to grow and succeed As I look back there is a sense of awe [...]

Before we get into the blog of the week, I would like to let you know that yesterday, April 18th, 2010 I met one of the most important figures in NY music Mr Clay Cole. In a few of my earlier blogs I made mention of the fact that The Clay Cole Show was de rigueur [...]

Where were you on June 1, 1967? I was at the Colony Record Store on 49th and Broadway buying one of the greatest records of all time! When it was being recorded, “Beatlemania” was waning. The Beatles had grown tired of touring and had stopped touring in August 1966. After one particular concert, while being driven [...]

I am overwhelmed by all of the great feedback I am receiving in regard to these Beatle posts. Thank you all for your comments and support! Moving right along we left off with Beatles VI which brings us to August 6, 1965. The LP  Help! is released curiously 19 days before the movie release in [...]