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  • Four Car Brandy Collision Kills One

    Brandy, whose last album was produced by Kanye West and became her biggest hit in 6 years, was involved in a car accident several weeks ago whose details are only leaking out now.

    The one-time child TV from Mississippi is now a 27 year old allegedly hit another car from behind on a Los Angeles freeway. The driver of the vehicle, a 38 year old mother of one, has died according to the AP, quoting a California Highway Patrolman spokesperson. The incident touched off a four vehicle collision.

    Bo Diddley’s little cousin (yep, it’s true) was traveling at a speed estimated at 65 miles per hour when her SUV started the collision. No charges have been filed against the singer or actress.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today:
    B.B. King’s 80, which won a Grammy from Best Blues Album two years ago. The now 81 year old diabetic was hospitalized this weekend, and all thoughts are with him so he is with us for many years to come.

  • Crowded House, Rage Announce Reunion Plans

    Two bands gone from the public eye for years are due for comebacks in 2007 according to media reports. Crowded House, the popular band from Down Under, and Rage Against The Machine, a group often collapsing into a melange of sound, have both announced plans to reunited and tour.

    Rage, the LA-based band that broke up in 2000, had #1 albums on the Billboard charts in 1996 and 1999. The band fared less well with singles play (but so did Led Zeppelin), charting only a minor hit with Guerrilla Warfare from 1999’s The Battle of Los Angeles. The song also won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance, the second of two Grammys the band took home.

    Crowded House, built from the remnants of Split Enz, was an older band that was a smash throughout New Zealand and Australia. Their success translated to Europe, especially England, but never enjoyed the album success or Grammys that Rage pulled in with the exception of Don’t Dream It’s Over, a worldwide hit that reached #2 in the U.S.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today
    K.T. Tunstall’s Eye to the Telescope has finally wound its way up to the top of the stack. Forget Black Horse and the Cherry Tree. This Scot can do it all.

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  • Pappa Denny Funeral Still Not Held

    Five days after Mamas and Pappas member Denny Doherty, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame died in his native Ontario, funeral arrangements have yet to be corrected.

    Doherty, who fell ill during the holiday season, was on dialysis and died a week after being released from the hospital. He shot to fame with the California-sound group led by John Phllips, a brilliant songwriter with a prodigious drug habit. After Phillips’ death in 2001 and Cass Elliott’s death at the height of the group’s popularity (she did not choke on a ham sandwich — she had a heart attack!), beautiful, blonde Michelle Phillips, the epitome of a California Girl, remains the group’s only surviving member. Michelle was also linked to Doherty romantically for many years.

    Although he tried to reconstitute the group using John’s daughter MacKenize and others, as well as produce a musical based on Mama Cass’ delightful take on Dream A Little Dream, Doherty had all but disappeared from the spotlight, with the exception of the group’s Rock Hall induction in 1998. Three of the four were still alive and able to enjoy one last twirl in the spotlight when they were inducted with The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, artists they influenced a great deal.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today
    A beautiful acoustic version of Rod Stewart singing Amazing Grace. I didn’t know Denny Doherty, but from wht I do know, he would have liked it.