The View From Here

[...] I listened to a bit of their music, I’m fine keeping it that way. I had read that the Beach Boys were going to be on the show and wanted to see them. At the same time the Grammys were on, the [...]

[...] The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and second is The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”. I’m happy with the one and two spot. We now know that [...]

[...] them to be authentic. Surf music was exclusively instrumental until Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys borrowed the basic sound and added the rich harmonies of the late fifties college circuit [...]

[...] with, who’s here tonight, used to sing a song called Suzie Baby." Dylan then introduced Bobby Vee to the audience. The band started playing and Dylan sang Suzie Baby, an unremarkable, simple [...]

[...] My friend, Erran, recently bought his first MP3 player. He knows I’ve liked popular music my whole life, so he asked me to give him some recommendations for songs and albums starting [...]

[...] that fat old guy know anyway. I thought the car was beautiful. I had been out of touch with popular music for over a year, so on a foray to a music store in Louisville, I bought some of the latest 8 [...]

[...] of the songs. The top 500 list is an excellent way to sample and choose from some of the best popular music of the last 6 decades. Here are a few albums that are not on Rolling Stone’s top 500 [...]

[...] . Between 1959 and 1970, Bobby Vee had 38 top 100 hits and 7 gold records. He was part of the popular music phenomenon that filled a void shortly after 1959. Around that time Elvis entered the army, [...]

[...] nice woman named Jeanette helped me find information on the Wo family, who owned and operated the Hi Wo Company Grocery store on 4th street from 1896 to 1989. Hi Wo came to the US when he was 16. He [...]

[...] Year’s Eve craziness. It was in the 1950s in Ferguson, Mo. My parents decided to let my sister Karen and me stay up. Dad told us that when midnight came, we could go outside and make as much [...]

[...] the Arizona heat, in Seattle. Summer had not quite begun in the northwest. We stayed at my sister Karen’s house, and she referred to June in Seattle as “Juneuary”. It was cloudy [...]

[...] tradition for us, if three times makes a tradition. It’s only a ten minute walk from my sister Karen’s house where Katie and I were staying. Nick showed up early in his Mini Cooper on the [...]

[...] remember much of it. My wife, sister and I participated in very little. We did arrange for my sister Karen to have her feet massaged for a birthday present. She said the experience was extremely [...]

[...] to become a preacher, Jerry Lee Lewis went to jail for marrying his 14 year old cousin and Buddy Holly along with the Big Bopper and Richie Valens died in a plane crash. Early rock & roll was [...]

[...] of hit singles. Chuck should be higher on the list. Other early rockers that make the list are Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley. Three blatant omissions are The Everly [...]

[...] in the early sixties. The hard-edged originality of early rockers, like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, was gone and the airwaves were filled with clean cut white [...]

[...] on the list. Other early rockers that make the list are Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley. Three blatant omissions are The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and Ricky [...]

[...] nearly died in the early sixties. The hard-edged originality of early rockers, like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, was gone and the airwaves were filled with [...]

[...] . Around that time Elvis entered the army, Little Richard quit singing to become a preacher, Jerry Lee Lewis went to jail for marrying his 14 year old cousin and Buddy Holly along with the Big Bopper [...]

[...] phone a few times and stayed in touch by email.   Tony in Vietnam  Me in Vietnam When Tony and I went places together, people thought we were brothers.  We looked alike, [...]