Monthly Archives: February 2025

The Fifth Dimension tore up the charts in the mid to late 60s with classics like “Up Up and Away (in My Beautiful Balloon),” “Stoned Soul Picnic, “Wedding Bell Blues,” and the Grammy award winner, “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.” A … Continue reading →

AC/DC first breathed rock and roll in to an unsuspecting world in 1973. Banded together by brothers, Angus and Malcome Young in Sydney, Australia, their music has been called hard rock and heavy metal, but they simply call it rock … Continue reading →

In 1964, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller who wrote so many classics like “Jailhouse Rock” for Elvis and “Yakety Yak” for the Coasters, wrote one for a group known as the Ad Libs. That song was “The Boy From New … Continue reading →

Dewey Bunnel of the folk-rock band, America, said that, “A horse with no name” was “a metaphor for a vehicle to get away from life’s confusion into a quiet, peaceful place.” All I know is that it was a # … Continue reading →

“Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl” was a hit in 1965 for a band from Cape Cod, Massachusetts known as the Barbarians. The song was a social commentary on the long hairstyles and fashions of the day. … Continue reading →

If there’s one song that represents what rock and roll is all about its “Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry. The song really is about its creator. Also, the lyric in the song is “There was a country boy named … Continue reading →

Location! Location! Location! That phrase describes the necessity of being in the right place to maximize profit. Chancellor Records was in the right place, Philadelphia, and the right time when American Bandstand took off like a rocket in the late … Continue reading →

Recorded in the basement of St. Bernadette’s Church in New Haven, CT in 1956, the Five Satins’ “In the Still of the Nite” is considered by many as the quintessential doo-wop song of all time and doo-wop records are very … Continue reading →