Friday, February 19, 2021

HOPE FOR THE BEST…EXPECT THE WORST

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Perhaps the best advice Mel Brooks has passed along is in the lyric from one of his earliest films, “The 12 Chairs.” Set to what was ori...
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BOBBY COLE - Atlantic City - “THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR”

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Back on February 19, 2006, this blog came to life. One of the first posts on that date was for Bobby Cole. The point of the blog was to cal...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Maybe a few out there remember TIMMIE ROGERS? "OH YEAHHHH!"

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Celebrating “Black History Month,” here’s a download from Timmie Rogers. “OH YEAH!!!” It’s doubtful too many on the planet know wh...
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Chinese Lives are Funny - Cab Calloway and “Chop Chop Charlie Chan from China”

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With all the looting, rioting and moping, you’d get the idea that all over the world Blacks are persecuted, and not given a break becaus...

And now a COKE commercial message...from MARY WILSON and the SUPREMES

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OK, it wasn't Mary Wilson and the Supremes. After a few sound-alike hits, it became Diana Ross and the Supremes. And then Diana Ross...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Jimmie Rodgers - Dead at age 87 - "When I was Leader of the Band"

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Some years ago, Jimmie Rodgers autographed a CD for me and said, “Say hello to Bobby Cole for me.” While they were not exactly similar in...

BOBBY COLE - Reconstructing and Deconstructing "FLOWERS" (covered by Nancy Sinatra, never "perfected" for his own album)

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The tapes I have of Bobby Cole go back, of course, more than 20 years. Some, given to me by his friends who were around well before I ca...
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BOBBY COLE — Well, when do we get that full-blown ORGY???

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OK, “full blown” and orgy” go together, or should, but not here. From the same session as “Flowers,” here’s Bobby abou...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

BOBBY COLE - BUS 22 TO BETHLEHEM

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Below, “Bus 22 to Bethlehem,” for several reasons. First off, it’s seasonal. Second, it’s more accurate now than ever (“…the Christians...
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THE WRITINGS OF PHIL OCHS (and a December 25th song from Bonnie Koloc)

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This has been a tough December (following many and many a tough month in this most immemorial year. Heading into the supposedly “cheerfu...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2020

For Chanukah: "WHEN MESSIAH COMES" - Herschel Bernardi and Sheldon Harnick versions

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Chanukah starts at sundown tomorrow. Or does it? Doesn't it? The Jewish people are indeed very smart, to keep track of their major ho...

For Christmas: TURLEY RICHARDS - I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS

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    The fictional LOU GRANT once declared, to MARY RICHARDS, "You have spunk....I HATE SPUNK."  One of the many things I hate...HY...

THE PLAGUE - Here Today Gone Tomorrow especially if you listen to Clapton or Van

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  One thing we've definitely learned from the pandemic: a lot of people are assholes. Some are ignorant assholes. Others are arrogant as...
Monday, November 09, 2020

TOM KENNEDY dies -- Joe Biden will not be hosting "NAME THAT TUNE"

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He was affable. Damn affable. A nice guy.    Being a quiz show host looks easy but it's not. The best of them have a tricky, quirky atti...

Sean Connery; The Man Who Would be ACTOR, First, and Comic-Con Nerd Fave last "IN MY LIFE" John Lennon

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  Sean Connery? Way too famous for THIS blog, but it's a MUSIC BLOG, and in reviving the old "he's the best James Bond" st...
Monday, October 19, 2020

DIANA RIGG - "COULD I LEAVE YOU"

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DIANA RIGG It seems that so many of the greatest and most memorable plays could not be confined to two acts. They require three, and just w...