I will never forget the first time I heard Linda Ronstadt’s voice for the first time…
I was six years old and my sister, Becky, had just purchased Linda Ronstadt’s Greatest Hits Volume 1 on vinyl. I remember being enchanted as I listened to Linda sing songs like “You’re No Good” and “Heat Wave”. Those two songs were probably my early favorites on that album, which I loved to listen to. When I […]
I’m thinking of Tom Lehrer today for the strangest of reasons…
This morning, the plumber came to my new home to fix the sink. For some reason, his visit made me think of the following clip from the PBS classic kids’ show, The Electric Company…
As a kid, I spent many hours watching The Electric Company. I’ve always been a reader and I love music, so that show was always very appealing to me. […]
Lately, I’ve been pretty grumpy, so I thought it might be fun to look at songs for curmudgeons…
If you’ve been reading Pop Rock Nation lately, you know that I have been dealing with the pain of a recent move. Our movers damaged the floor in our previous house in North Carolina and that turned out to be a big pain in the butt to rectify. As we’ve been unpacking everything, we’ve found that […]