In the late '60s, through some back-channel negotiations that I still don't fully understand, my dad got on Phil Spector's mailing list. 
(photo by the legendary Guy Webster)
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Christmas Power
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In the late '60s, through some back-channel negotiations that I still don't fully understand, my dad got on Phil Spector's mailing list.
(photo by the legendary Guy Webster)
In the late '60s, through some back-channel negotiations that I still don't fully understand, my dad got on Phil Spector's mailing list. (photo by the legendary Guy Webster)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Image of the Day
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A photo of Phil Spector in the early '60s, which accompanies Stephen Holden's review of the newly released documentary The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector in the New York Times this morning. Watch a clip of the film here.
A photo of Phil Spector in the early '60s, which accompanies Stephen Holden's review of the newly released documentary The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector in the New York Times this morning. Watch a clip of the film here.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Do You Remember
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NPR has a great interactive feature on their website right now remembering musicians who died this year including, among others, Estelle Bennett (pictured above at far right) of the Ronettes, and Joe Cuba, the king of Latin Boogaloo, pictured below.
I also really enjoyed a story I heard on NPR in the car yesterday, driving back from Idaho, about a man in Monroe GA who has been clipping obituaries from the newspaper and pasting them into scrapbooks for over 50 years. They haven't posted the audio yet but you can click here for the story and hopefully they'll post it soon.
NPR has a great interactive feature on their website right now remembering musicians who died this year including, among others, Estelle Bennett (pictured above at far right) of the Ronettes, and Joe Cuba, the king of Latin Boogaloo, pictured below.
I also really enjoyed a story I heard on NPR in the car yesterday, driving back from Idaho, about a man in Monroe GA who has been clipping obituaries from the newspaper and pasting them into scrapbooks for over 50 years. They haven't posted the audio yet but you can click here for the story and hopefully they'll post it soon.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Wall of Santa
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My friend Josh found a gem for me at an estate sale earlier this year: an '80s re-issue of Phil Spector's Christmas Album, a 1963 album featuring Spector-produced Christmas jams from The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, Bobb B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, and Spector himself. A few sample cuts:
The Crystals Santa Claus Is Coming To Town mp3
Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) mp3
Phil Spector Silent Night mp3
In the never-ending December search for holiday music that doesn't suck, this is definitely a must-have. It's not too tough to find copies in used record stores (for the locals: last time I was in Atlas/Jive Time on 10th they had a copy) and Amazon has it on CD with the original cover art.
My friend Josh found a gem for me at an estate sale earlier this year: an '80s re-issue of Phil Spector's Christmas Album, a 1963 album featuring Spector-produced Christmas jams from The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, Bobb B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, and Spector himself. A few sample cuts:The Crystals Santa Claus Is Coming To Town mp3
Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) mp3
Phil Spector Silent Night mp3
In the never-ending December search for holiday music that doesn't suck, this is definitely a must-have. It's not too tough to find copies in used record stores (for the locals: last time I was in Atlas/Jive Time on 10th they had a copy) and Amazon has it on CD with the original cover art.
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