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Salutations!! Today is the 37th anniversary of Chicago’s 17 album. David Foster is a genius that gets a bad rap for being to polished and sugary. I love his stuff with Chicago much more than any of the older Chicago stuff. I like slick hits and that’s what he pulled in. Here’s an interesting take…
Salutations™!! Today is a big day in musical releases. Glorified Magnified from Manfred Mann’s Earth Band turns 48. All the World’s a Stage from Rush is 44. The Stranger from Billy Joel is 43. Celebrate! from Kool & the Gang and Hotter Than July by Stevie Wonder are 40. Bend Sinister from The Fall, Somewhere…
Salutations™!! Today is the anniversary of several albums. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere from Neil Young & Crazy Horse (#210 on the RS list) celebrates 51 years today. The Carpenters’ self-titled third album is 49. Relics: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios, a compilation album from Pink Floyd is also 49. Little Queen, the second album…
Salutations™!! Yep, I am a day behind on this because yesterday was Mother’s Day. So, Underdog Records is still “closed” and Jonathan says that while he does see reopening in the near future, it will still be several weeks, and procedures within the store will be different. He’s doing a shload of deliveries right now,…
Salutations™!! Today is the 51st anniversary of Chicago’s debut album, which at the time was a self-titled release as they were known as Chicago Transit Authority. So, the title of this album is, you guessed it, Chicago Transit Authority. Here is a really great version of this tune from that album. Enjoy! Until tomorrow, same blog…
Salutations™!! Yesterday was the “Dining Area” phase of Beeman Remodel 2019 in advance of Operation: Beeman Hosts 2020. More on that in another blog down the line. But, that meant that we had to get into Underdog Records and get out so we could start working on stuff. So with that said, here’s the haul:…
Salutations™!! Yesterday was the start of the $1 sale at Underdog Records. Jonathan and De put out around 3,000 records Friday night after work. Jonathan estimates around 1600 of those went out yesterday during the sale. Some people walked out with over 200 records yesterday. The place was a madhouse and I loved seeing it like…
Salutations™!! Today is the 49th anniversary of the release of Chicago II and perhaps its best-known tune is the Robert Lamm penned/Peter Cetera sung “25 or 6 to 4.” I’ve said several times before that I am not a fan of the older Chicago stuff, but this song does rock. This cover is by a Russian/Ukrainian…
Salutations™!! Here’s the second post today! And yes, this is verbose as was the last. The month of September is a huge month for KISS fans, even if they don’t know it. Why you may ask? Because the month of September is the anniversary month for the releases of TEN KISS albums. I’ve talked about Alive!, Animalize and Asylum….
Salutations™!! I”m going to skip all the anniversary storytime stuff that I normally put on these. I figure that by now I’ve said all I can say without being redundant. I could probably go back a year, two years, three years and copy and paste something, but this one is different. It’s the first time…
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