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Old Friends When We Meet: Hubert Kah’s “C’est La Vie” (1996)
If, like me, you happened to be working for Shopko in the late 1990s, you would have, by default, spent a lot of time with the satellite radio station they have piped into their stores. Lucky for me, the station was, in fact, a lot more interesting than we normally think piped-in retail music would be. It was while auditing the signage for the weekly ads on Sunday mornings that I was first […]
Three Bands from Three Decades in New Reunion Albums from O.M.D., Tonic, and Azure Ray
Every year brings its share of unlikely reunions, some welcome, some not so much. But this year sees three reunions from acts that few but the most devoted fans were even aware had broken up, or that they’d ever existed all that much outside of a semi-forgotten hit or two. Coincidentally, they each represent one of the last three decades of alternative pop and rock.
The most recently broken up of the three groups […]
Tom Bosley’s Singing Career! “The name’s LaGuardia…”
Yesterday, Tom Bosley passed away at the age of 83. Though Bosley is best known and celebrated as the TV actor who played Mr. Cunningham on the show Happy Days in the 70s and 80s, he was also a celebrated stage actor, and in 1960, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the title character of Fiorello!, a musical based on the life and loves of New York governor Fiorello “The Little […]