Liner NotesLet’s jump back into one of my favorite box sets from my dad’s collection. We will listen to selections from both sides of the second to last record in this six-disk set. I have often said I would have loved to have been around in the early days of radio....

Liner NotesAlmost everybody likes to show off their singing skills whether they have some or not. Karaoke bars have made a killing off that theory for decades. Back in the 1950s and 60s, there were a couple of TV shows that got viewers to sing along with them. Of...

Liner NotesLet's finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday. What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several...

Liner NotesMy dad had plenty of records featuring large orchestras playing classical music on both 33 ⅓ RPM vinyl LPs and 78 RPM Shellac records. The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off…quote…the nineteenth century was just opening in...

Liner NotesSo, Dad…your last fathers day was 2019. You died that December. In those four and a half years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers. I still use a lot of your tools. But no…I still don’t know where...

Liner NotesWhen it came to how popular a band’s music was, it was the charts that told you. It was the charts that determined radio station song lists and how often they changed. While maybe not quite all of the songs on this record made the charts, even though that’s...

Liner NotesI’m not sure the person who gathered the music for this record understood what the assignment was. This is not at all what I expected the music to sound like after seeing the name of the album and the text on the cover. I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed that Latin...

Liner NotesHere’s an album I came across while looking for a specific artist for an earlier episode. I wasn’t familiar with some of the musicians and most of the music on this record. But it represents an interesting time frame in music. Sort of between bebop and rock...

Liner NotesHere’s the second record of a two disk set that spent as much time among my own records as it did my dad’s. There was a point where neither one of us remembered whose collection it actually belonged in. Like I’ve said in the past, my dad and I had similar...

Liner NotesSo, mom...your last mother's day was in 2015 just three weeks before you died. In those nine years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers. I still use your recipes and even some of your kitchen tools...