MUSIC

When I was in junior high school (1967-’70) the white kids listened almost exclusively to white bands, Beatles, Stones, Cream, while the African American kids preferred the Temptations, Supremes and Marvin Gaye. Today, my music collection has an eclectic balance of almost everything, and this linked video documents the acceptance of “white” music among minorities. […]

The album “Let It Be” available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “But how could anyone have imagined it?  You couldn’t have planned it, willed it, or schemed it. Even to have dreamed it would have been border-line absurd.  I was a boy […]

The importance of this ability for an album to deliver a crafted, dramatic experience cannot be overemphasized. Music was the platform, the glue that held my generation together, that spoke to us, inspired us. Even when the promise within the music, whatever it really was, seemed to fall apart, and some distanced themselves and others […]

    On July 24, 1967, The Beatles release “All You Need Is Love.” If somehow, somewhere there were some promotional-director-in-the-sky who took care of these things, if somehow all of this were being done on purpose (as certainly we were sure it was), it could not have happened with more effect, nor at a […]

“As it grew dark, the white MGA convertible roadster I drove slipped and slithered on the snow-covered mountain road. I was with a friend, and we were late getting back to campus. Still, I pulled into a roadside diner where a television set hung up in one corner because I really did not want to […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKfozyldDr8&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from YouTube. All copyrights remain with original copyright holder.