On one of my family’s home movies, taken in the late 60s or early 70s, a snowplow comes up the road toward our farm. It’s one of those big highway snowplows with a blade eight feet tall or so, and it takes the whole blade to move the snow that’s blown across the road. I [...]
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It’s time again for a feature begun two years ago, in which I put my Christmas music stash on shuffle and we see what comes out. The list begins in an entirely predictable fashion.
“What Child Is This”/Vince Guaraldi Trio/A Charlie Brown Christmas. Fun fact about the special, which aired Tuesday night on ABC and will [...]
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Usually I ease into the Christmas music every year, letting holiday songs pop up at random on the laptop in the days after Thanksgiving. Not this year—I jumped into the pool fully clothed, doing four solid hours of Christmas tunes on the radio the day after Thanksgiving, which felt like an awful lot awfully fast. [...]
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Before I forget, here’s the final installment of the series on one-hit-wonders whose lone claim to fame peaked at Number 97 on the Hot 100. (The first part is here and the second part is here.)
“Mississippi Mama”/Owen B (3/14/70, two weeks on chart). Here’s an artist more obscure than Wyatt (Earp) McPherson, the first one-hit [...]
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As I’ve noted a million times before, the fall of 1970 is where time really begins for me—when the record charts first became the calendar of my life. I heard the season like the 10-year-old I was, gravitating toward my generation’s answer to the Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana—the Partridge Family and Dawn. But while [...]
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We’re in pre-holiday mode again around here. Granted, that isn’t much different than our regular mode. The big difference is that we worry less about the remunerative labor we should be doing but aren’t.
I was thinking the other day about Thanksgiving of 1966, the year I was in first grade. That was the year I [...]
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