Lubbock, Texas singer, songwriter Mac Davis died September 29, 2020, after becoming critically ill after heart surgery. After high school, Mac moved to Atlanta and formed a rock band called the Zots. It wasn’t long before he got his start a songwriter in Nancy Sinatra’s company, Boots Enterprises. He would play on many of her recordings and she even worked him into her stage shows.
Helen Reddy lost her battle with dementia and died September 29, 2020 in Los Angeles. In the early seventies the Australian dominated the pop chart and won a grammy for her song “I Am Woman”. She had 15 top 40 hits, including 3 number ones and was the top selling female vocalist in 1973 and 1974. The album “I Am Woman” sold 25 million copies in the United States.
This is Genesis live sat the Lyceum Arena in London 1980. Anne Nightingale is the presenter and the film is produced by Michael Appleton. Genesis is Tony Banks (Keyboards), Phil Collins (Drums, Vocals), Mike Rutherford (Guitar), Daryl Stuemer (Guitar) and Chester Thompson (Drums).
Susanna Hoffs, of the Bangles, sings her unreleased track “Right By You”. It was supposed to be on her cancelled 1994 solo Columbia album. I love it.
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A mondegreen is simply the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing that as a girl she had misheard the lyric “laid him on the green”
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They go through the album, breaking down the personnel, the instruments, the sounds and more. This is a great interview of Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Keyboards, vocals, cool Flintstones T-shirt).
Larkin Poe is Rebecca & Megan Lovell, from Atlanta and descendants of artist Edgar Allan Poe. Preachin’ Blues is from their 2017 album Peach.
The Atlanta band Orange Hat with the song Cartoon Dead from their 1999 album Pufferfish. Orange Hat is Christo Harris (guitar, vocals), David Henderson (bass, vocals), Kenny Howes (keyboards) and Jason Nesmith (drums).
This is the Official Music Video for Let’s Go Crazy. The clips are from the movie Purple Rain and feature a lot of Apollonia clips (not a bad thing!)
