Dick Todd was a Canadian singer of the 1930s through 1950s. I had never heard of him. I never had discussions of music with the my grandparents, I feel like he may have been to one of their liking (one grandfather I know to have been enormously into jazz, playing trombone in bands before my …
I have long considered a song from the last review, Leader of the Pack, to be something of a novelty song, largely incorrectly. Today, I am listening to something that is definitely a novelty song, although a fantastic and catchy one. This 45 was released under the Kapp label, catelogue number K-342X, in 1960. In …
The way I have accumulated most of my collection of old and odd media is by buying hand fulls of things without much care for specifics. But after listening to the Rock N’ Roll Collectors Edition cassettes I was able to give a name to the band that sung Leader of the Pack, a song …
Pat Boone is a name I know. I could not have told you he was a singer, although I think I would have guessed that or televangelist. My parents both liked rock and roll and the blues, while my father was also into 78 era jazz. Neither cared for this sort of pop music, so …