Let It Be Me - Decade 2

Decade 2 - Set 19 - Let It Be Me
5 hours 5 minutes

1. Let It Be Me - Glen Campbell & Bobbi Gentry, 1968
2. I Call Your Name - The Mamas & The Pappas, 1966
3. The Word - The Beatles, 1965
4. No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits, 1966
5. Like To Get To Know You - Spanky & Our Gang, 1968
6. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys, 1966
7. I've Got You Under My Skin - The Four Seasons, 1966
8. Never My Love - The Association, 1967
9. Solitary Man - Neil Diamond, 1966
10. Come And Stay With Me - Marianne Faithfull, 1964
11. Society's Child - Janis Ian, 1967
12. I Can't Quit Her - Blood , Sweat & Tears, 1968
13. Laughing - The Guess Who, 1969
14. Fresh As A Daisy - Emitt Rhodes, 1970
15. Without You - Badfinger, 1970
16. I Need You - America, 1971
17. Run To Me - Bee Gees, 1972
18. Faithful - Eric Andersen, 1972
19. Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake, 1969
20. Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce, 1972
21. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - July Collins, 1968
22. Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, 1969
23. Turn Around - The Beau Brummels, 1968
24. Hard Headed Woman - Cat Stevens, 1970
25. If Not For You - George Harrison, 1970
26. Jealous Guy - John Lennon, 1971
27. Another Day - Paul McCartney, 1971
28. If Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr, 1971
29. Lola - The Kinks, 1970
30. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground, 1970
31. I Want You - The Troggs, 1966
32. Evil Hearted You - The Yardbirds, 1965
33. I Can't Explain - The Who, 1965
34. Baby, Now That I Found You - The Foundations, 1967
35. Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones, 1969
36. Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf, 1970
37. Jeepster - T. Rex, 1971
38. Domino - Van Morrison, 1970
39. Love The One You're With - The Isley Brothers, 1971
40. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye, 1973
41. Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone, 1971
42. 5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love) - The Presidents, 1970
43. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) - The Temptations, 1968
44. I Can't Get Next To You - Al Green, 1971
45. See Saw - Aretha Franklin, 1968
46. Just A Little Lovin' - Dusty Springfield, 1969
47. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Carole King, 1971
48. Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin, 1971
49. You're So Vain - Carly Simon, 1972
50. Air That I Breathe - The Hollies, 1974
51. She's Gone - Hall & Oates, 1973
52. Such A Night - Dr. John, 1973
53. Come And Get Your Love - Redbone, 1973
54. Burning Love - Elvis Presley, 1972
55. The Rapper - The Jaggerz, 1970
56. The Letter - Joe Cocker, 1970
57. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The MGs, 1969
58. Fried Hockey Boogie - Canned Heat, 1968
59. Hesitation Blues - Hot Tuna, 1970
60. The Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon, 1969
61. Slip Away - Clarence Carter, 1968
62. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne, 1970
63. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers, 1972
64. Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners, 1973
65. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer - Stevie Wonder, 1971
66. Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland, 1970
67. Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt, 1972
68. Country Girl - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970
69. Did She Mention My Name - Gordon Lightfoot, 1968
70. Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles, 1972
71. Sugar Babe - The Youngbloods, 1969
72. More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase, 1969
73. Susan - The Buckinghams, 1968
74. Twentieth Century Fox - The Doors, 1967
75. I Can't See You - Tim Buckley, 1966
76. You're The One - The Vogues, 1965
77. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel, 1966
78. Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers, 1964
79. Eight Days A Week - The Beatles, 1964
80. When I Grow Up - The Beach Boys, 1965
81. Enter The Young - The Association, 1966
82. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins, 1967
83. Farewell Angelina - Joan Baez, 1965
84. Downtown - Petula Clark, 1965
85. Straight Shooter - The Mamas & The Papas, 1966
86. Cherry Hill Park - Billy Joe Royal, 1965
87. I Met Her In Church - The Box Tops, 1968
88. Get Off Of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones, 1965
89. Sealed With A Kiss - Gary Lewis & The Playboys, 1965
90. (Theme From) Valley Of The Dolls - Dionne Warwick, 1968
91. Close To You (They Long To Be) - The Carpenters, 1973
92. Hang On To Yourself - David Bowie, 1972

Vinyl Spins - 2001 Space Odyssey

Vinyl Spins: Got this 50 year old album out today. In the spring of 1968 when the film was released I cut my high school classes (matinees were cheaper) and went downtown to the big theatre showing the movie on the special Cinerama screen. I loved it enough to run out and get the soundtrack album right away.

This was also the first classical album I purchased and the second soundtrack album after Goldfinger.

Easy To Be Free - Decade 2

Decade 2 - Set 18 - Easy To Be Free
5 hours 12 minutes

1. Easy To Be Free - String Driven Thing, 1972
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra, 1974
3. When The Morning Comes - Hall & Oates, 1973
4. Dirty Work - Steely Dan, 1972
5. Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles, 1973
6. Change Partners - Stephen Stills, 1971
7. Without You - Harry Nilsson, 1971
8. Oh Darling - The Beatles, 1969
9. Love Her Madly - The Doors, 1971
10. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Derek & The Dominoes, 1970
11. Angel - Jimi Hendrix, 1971
12. Metal Guru - T. Rex, 1972
13. Come All Ye - Fairport Convention, 1969
14. Ripple - Grateful Dead, 1970
15. Seeds And Stems (Again) - Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen, 1971
16. Streets Of Baltimore - Gram Parsons, 1973
17. A Good Feelin' To Know - Poco, 1972
18. Hot Burrito #2 - The Flying Burrito Brothers, 1969
19. You Keep Hanging Up On My Mind - Wendy & Bonnie, 1969
20. Maybe After He's Gone - The Zombies, 1968
21. Maybe I'm Amazed - Faces, 1971
22. Rock And Roll Stew - Traffic, 1971
23. Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones, 1971
24. Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians, 1969
25. Heaven Help Us All - Stevie Wonder, 1970
26. I'm In A Different World - The Four Tops, 1968
27. Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone, 1969
28. Soul Sacrifice - Santana, 1969
29. Get Down - War, 1971
30. Respect - Aretha Franklin, 1967
31. Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield, 1970
32. Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations, 1970
33. Save The Country - The 5th Dimension, 1970
34. People Got To Be Free - The Rascals, 1969
35. I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After, 1971
36. Military Madness - Graham Nash, 1971
37. Hand Me Down World - The Guess Who, 1970
38. Simple Song Of Freedom - Tim Hardin, 1969
39. Masters Of War - Bob Dylan, 1963
40. The Universal Soldier - Buffy Saint-Marie, 1964
41. Sam Stone - John Prine, 1971
42. Handsome Johnny - Richie Havens, 1966
43. I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs1965
44. Sky Pilot - The Animals, 1968
45. Student Demonstration Time - The Beach Boys, 1971
46. Trouble Every Day - The Mothers Of Invention, 1966
47. Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire, 1965
48. Get Together - Hamilton Camp, 1964
49. Blowin' In The Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary, 1963
50. The Times They Are A-changin' - Odetta, 1965
51. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds, 1965
52. Peace Train - Cat Stevens, 1971
53. Political Science - Randy Newman, 1972
54. Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon, 1971
55. Revolution - The Beatles, 1968
56. Ohio - Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1970
57. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1969
58. Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream, 1968
59. The Raver - The Troggs, 1967
60. I Know A Place - Petula Clark, 1965
61. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey, 1965
62. Ball Of Fire - Tommy James & The Shondells, 1969
63. White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground, 1968
64. Junk - Paul McCartney, 1970
65. Mr. Bojangles - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1970
66. Pickin' Up The Pieces - Poco, 1969
67. One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley, 1970
68. Ballad Of Easy Rider - The Byrds, 1969
69. Feel - Big Star, 1972
70. Late Night - Syd Barrett, 1970
71. The Rose And The Thorn - 13th Floor Elevators, 1969
72. Quite Rightly So - Procol Harum, 1968
73. Cyprus Avenue - Van Morrison, 1968
74. Sunny - Bobby Hebb, 1966
75. Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me) - The Four Seasons, 1966
76. Everyone's Gone To The Moon - Johathan King, 1965
77. Space Oddity - David Bowie, 1969
78. Lay In The Sun - The Godz, 1966
79. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin, 1970
80. In The Wake Of Poseidon - King Crimson, 1970
81. Time - Pink Floyd, 1973
82. Vicious - Lou Reed, 1972
83. Wild Child - The Doors, 1968
84. He's Evil - The Kinks, 1974

Glass of Beer - MacBison

Time for a new local brew. MacBison, a pale scotch ale from Flying Bison Brewing, Buffalo NY from their small batch series. A very nice tasty dark ale.

Looking forward to going to Scotland next year.

Glass of Beer - Barroom Hero

Barroom Hero is an English pub style dark ale from Magic Hat Brewery that was a collaboration with the band Dropkick Murphys. It was very tasty with a smooth chocolate finish but with a slight hint of coffee which I generally don't like it my beer. 

Peace 1968

Found this while rooting through an old drawer this morning and hadn’t seen it in a very long time. I got it in a head shop on Samson Street in downtown Philadelphia in the spring of 1968. Hard to believe that was 50 years ago. I had a Nehru jacket back then too but fortunately no pictures.

Well, I actually did have two... a full length blue one and a smaller orange one that was more like a shirt. So very mod. But I drew the line with medallions.

I had to ditch the long hair, beads, peace signs, and hippie clothes when I enlisted in the Navy in late 1969 but did get to keep wearing bell bottoms.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Movie, The Book and The Soundtrack. 50 Years.

I saw the movie for the first time in a large downtown theater in Philadelphia on a Cinerama screen about a week or so after it was released in early April 1968. I would see it many more times over the years. It was one of my favorite all time films. I loved everything about that movie from the iconic monolith, the apes, the computer, the blue food, the baby and even the soundtrack.

I read the book for the first time in the summer of 1968 after seeing the movie a second time. I loved the book even more because it explained more things that happened in the movie that had been left mysterious. I would read the book again in 1974 and then again more recently in 2018 around the 50th anniversary of the film.

I also bought the soundtrack album later that summer of 1968 since I was working and making some money. This would actually be the first and only album of classical music I would own until the mid 70's when Becky and I would embark on building a collection of classical albums.

Catanzaro Sisters

The Catanzaro sisters. West Side Buffalo, 1948. I first met these wonderful ladies while sitting around that same kitchen table in the late 1970’s. Grace, Antoinette, Josephine, Jeanette, Rose and Catherine my mother-in-law. They had one brother, Uncle Gasper, a Buffalo Fire Dept. Captain who also lived in that house all his life with two of his sisters. 

Becky’s Aunt Jo and Aunt Toni made jewelry and had their House of Crafts shop on Elmwood and Auburn on the West Side Elmwood Strip for many years. The last of the sisters, Aunt Rose, sadly passed away last summer. They embraced me into their family. We miss them all.

We Are All Weird

We Are All Weird - The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal by Seth Godwin, 2015

I read this in April 2018 and it only took me about two or three days. 

This was actually a very interesting book about marketing but also way beyond just selling stuff to groups of people. Included lots of insights into the way people group themselves in so many niche ways. I'm not sure about the end of normal in the title. It seems like people have always acted this way.

More Hate

 

Shape Of Things To Come - Decade 2

Decade 2 - Set 16 - Shape Of Things To Come
5 hours 14 minutes

1. Shape Of Things To Come - Max Frost & The Troopers, 1968
2. Medication - The Chocolate Watch Band, 1968
3. Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones, 1966
4. Ups And Downs - Paul Revere & The Raiders, 1967
5. Tell Her No - The Zombies, 1965
6. King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies, 1967
7. We Can Work It Out - The Beatles, 1966
8. Can't You See That She's Mine - The Dave Clark Five, 1964
9. California Girls - The Beach Boys, 1965
10. Substitute - The Who, 1966
11. Crosstown Traffic - The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968
12. One Good Man - Janis Joplin, 1969
13. Love Me Two Times - The Doors, 1967
14. Wild Thing - The Troggs, 1966
15. The Little Black Egg - The Nightcrawlers, 1965
16. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals, 1965
17. Feelin' Alright - Traffic, 1968
18. You Showed Me - The Turtles, 1969
19. Take Me To The Pilot - Elton John, 1970
20. Badge - Cream, 1969
21. Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Rivival, 1970
22. On The Road Again - Canned Heat, 1968
23. Stage Fright - The Band, 1970
24. Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen - Santana, 1970
25. Valleri - The Monkees, 1968
26. Love Is A Beautiful Thing - The Young Rascals, 1967
27. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells, 1967
28. Where Have All The Good Times Gone - The Kinks, 1965
29. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star - The Byrds, 1967
30. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators, 1966
31. Shape Of Things - The Yardbirds, 1965
32. Get Me To The World On Time - The Electric Prunes, 1967
33. Dirty Water - The Standells, 1965
34. Gloria - Them, 1965
35. Talk Talk - The Music Explosion, 1966
36. I Want Candy - The Strangeloves, 1965
37. Concrete And Clay - Unit 4+2, 1965
38. Sit Down, I Think I Love You - The Mojo Men, 1967
39. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison, 1967
40. Mellow Yellow - Donovan, 1967
41. I Started A Joke - The Bee Gees, 1968
42. Your Saving Grace - The Steve Miller Band, 1969
43. Superstar - Murray Head, 1970
44. Venus - Shocking Blue, 1970
45. Moonage Daydream - David Bowie, 1972
46. 10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra, 1971
47. Moonshake - Can, 1971
48. Cherry Red - The Groundhogs, 1972
49. Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart
50. Roundabout - Yes, 1971
51. Hocus Pocus - Focus, 1971
52. Orgone Accumulator - Hawkwind, 1973
53. I Been Hoodood - Dr. John, 1973
54. What Am I Living For? - Mark-Almond, 1973
55. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City - Bruce Springsteen, 1973
56. Babylon - New York Dolls, 1974
57. Everyone I Meet Is From California - America, 1975
58. California Saga (On My Way To California) - The Beach Boys, 1973
59. Susie-Q - Jose Feliciano, 1970
60. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash, 1972
61. I've Been Hurt - Bill Deal & The Rhondels, 1969
62. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan, 1966
63. Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association, 1966
64. House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals, 1964
65. Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone, 1966
66. Caroline Says II - Lou Reed, 1973
67. Paris 1919 - John Cale, 1973
68. Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart, 1971
69. Captain Jack - Billy Joel, 1973
70. Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack, 1973
71. Soulsville - Isaac Hayes, 1971
72. Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth, 1971
73. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder, 1973
74. The World Is A Ghetto - War, 1972
75. People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, 1965
76. Love, Devotion & Surrender - Santana, 1973
77. Let It Be - The Beatles, 1970
78. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Fairport Convention, 1969
79. It Makes No Difference - The Band, 1975
80. Take It To The Limit - Eagles, 1975
81. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long - Chicago, 1974
82. Fame - David Bowie, 1975

Queen of Bebop

 

The What When Book List

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes, 2017

Read in February 2018.

This was a wonderful biography of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan with a tremendous impact not only on jazz but also women's issues and civil rights. I think the author told her story brilliantly and not being a jazz writer made the book that more engrossing. I read this in less than a week. I couldn't put it down and had never realized how much I didn't know about Sarah Vaughan although I loved her music.