Your music for life.
Do you remember the first ten years of rock and roll? Was it the music you liked when you moved on from your teen years? If so, chances are the pop music of those years is still your favorite. It was...
View ArticleBroadway Shows ain’t what they used to be. Or are they?
Growing up in Philadelphia and later working in Manhattan gave me an early sense of musicals and their impact on the cultural scene. I saw one big musical production at the old Shubert Theatre in the...
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness applies to Health Care Reform, too.
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of...
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What’s fair at the bottom of the labor market in these economic times?
One recent Saturday morning I took the freeway to the Westside of Los Angeles. At the foot of the off ramp there was a gathering of men, maybe two dozen strong. They were hanging out waiting for...
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Golden Oldies.
Here they are the moldy oldies, blats from the past, the knocked out nifties. If you were born between 1930 and 1945, the music of the fifties will always be part of your life. As a pre-boomer,...
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“Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On”
Jerry Lee Lewis celebrates his 75th birthday nearly 54 years after “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” became the first of Killer’s many hits during the early days of Rock and Roll. Pre-boomers were...
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Pre-boomers lived through the greatest era of fad dances
Before Rock and Roll exploded on the scene in the mid-50s, there had been periods when novelty and fad dances were the rage. But Rock was accompanied by a plethora of songs that had a dance connected...
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