Blasts From the Pasts – Random Posts

• So Sorry Uncle Albert – and Everyone Else

  I am shocked that it’s been more than two months since I last wrote an update.  I’m so sorry.  And, apparently, so was Paul & Linda 40 years ago when their pastiche hit “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” was a huge AM radio hit here in [...]

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• The Feelies – Here Before – New Album for 2011

  Most of us in college radio in 1980 didn’t know quite what to make of “Crazy Rhythms,” the first full-length Feelies release.  There was that cover, for starters.  Four  guys against a gradient blue background looking for all the world like the math nerds [...]

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• Free mp3: The Church – Under The Milky Way

  Free is good. Free music is excellent. Finding a great song that’s also a free, legal download is something extraordinary. Here’s one for you, that’s currently offered free at amazon.com – The Church’s “Under the Milky Way”. The Church’s only US-Top 20 hit is [...]

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