Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
Song of the Friday: The Exception – The Eagle Flies On Friday Short-lived but, talented British Mod band The Exception provide us with our Song of the Friday this week. The peppy little vibe-powered The Eagle Flies on Friday from 1967 is a relatively new addition to our Friday Songs Archive but, one that we are …
Video of the Day: Bo Diddley rocks Madison Square Garden in 1972 From the 1973 film Let the Good Times Roll!
Video of the Day: Dale Hawkins – Susie Q Although this is obviously NOT live (the guitar is not even plugged in), it is still valuable historical footage of Dale performing his Swamp Rock Classic Susie Q. And, some of the audience reactions are priceless, too. Enjoy. Bonus: Dale Hawkins – Little Pig We had …
Song of the Day: Dale Hawkins – L.A. Memphis Tyler Texas Today we invite you to enjoy this swinging little travelogue from Susie Q singer, Dale Hawkins. It’s off his surprisingly, solid 1969 album of the same name. A Country Funk Classic!
The Everly Brothers sing a medley of their hits … with David Steinberg? The YouTubes claim this is from a British TV show but, that seems doubtful to us. It is more than likely from The Music Scene a short lived ABC show sometimes hosted by Steinberg, that was at least, actually from 1969. It …
Song of the Day: The Everly Brothers – I Wonder If I Care as Much The Everly Brothers were past their big hit days by 1968 when they released Roots (although they were still very popular in England). The album is considered a very early Country Rock classic with the Everlys covering songs by artists who …
Video of the Day: Dion with Phil Everly – The Queen of 59 The quality of this clip is pretty poor but, the beauty of the performance and the charm of having Phil Everly harmonize with Dion more than make up for it. Enjoy.
Song of the Day: Dion – Daddy Rollin’ (in Your Arms) Today’s Song of the Day was the B-side to Dion’s big 1968 comeback hit Abraham, Martin and John. It shows a much more raw, experimental direction for Dion that we wish he would have taken as it is one of our favorite things he …
Song of the SaturDay: Tom Waits – (Lookin’ for) The Heart of Saturday Night Dear Imaginary Readers, we guess we are doing Saturday Songs now. We noticed we have done it kind of unconsciously for the last couple of weeks, so we decided to make it Official. It ‘s just that their are SO MANY …
Song of the Day: The KingBees – My Mistake We are not exactly sure what mistake The Kingbees are owning up to in this propulsive, neo-Rockabilly gem – they seems to be apologizing for not choose the straight life over the life of a Rock and Roller (and maybe mistaking a guy for a girl …
