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LOST TREASURES PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE “The Singles“ By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”]   Between 1965 and 1967, British comic duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore released five singles of (more or less) pop music on the Decca label. At least three of the ten sides are true classics. The most famous of these […]

MOVIE REVIEW Citizenfour Citizencritic A documentary filmed at the time that Edward Snowden was providing select jour- nalists the documents and other material regarding the government’s (the National Security Administration) collection of communication data on all Americans; directed by Laura Poitras by Doug Young [linebreak style=”simple”] ENCRYPTED MESSAGE: WxYVcSQUPKLXCVbCWQTSGH>78H1FF,SD3DC KJShHFUWeFBCO;/UHDQUW.HUEgHGASFG>.PER ;SJDHFPUqEYR9238./RUEWFY97FDEUYGHF9UI NNMCBv.AVISHDOERaWIER3HD.JKH;UOSH/:OIT KJSDHFIWEUHGASJKHUHAUSUeSJDHFU/;FHOI H837rHFsHDFWEGF92EFHGIHBDFLASDIPFHHC MMCGDI.WQEGDIUYQIWGUYGQWGDBJKJDVJM […]

LOST TREASURES BIFF ROSE “The Thorn in Mrs. Rose’s Side” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] My first exposure to Biff Rose was as a comic and personality on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the late ’60s. He was kind of a goofball, sort of a cross between Gilligan and Timothy Leary. He played […]

BLOODY RED BARON NOVEMBER REVIEWS by Mike Baron [linebreak style=”simple”] HERE COMES THE REIGN AGAIN: The Second British Invasion (Curry Cuts) Following the success of DRINK A TOAST TO INNOCENCE: A Tribute to Lite Rock, impresario Andrew Curry calls on some of the same power pop players and many new ones to interpret these Brit songs […]

JANGLE ON! NOVEMBER by Eric Sorsensen [linebreak style=”simple”] In typical mid-Atlantic fashion, the high temperature of 74 degrees on 24 November tied a record, and a winter storm is in the forecast for two days later – which will make for a challenging start to Thanksgiving-related highway travel.  If weather keeps me from visiting friends […]

LOST TREASURES JUDEE SILL “Judee Sill” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] I first became familiar with Judee Sill through the Turtles’ recording of her delicate ballad, “Lady-O,” which features Sills herself on acoustic guitar. While that’s a lovely composition, with baroque-pop flourishes and a soaring melody, when I finally came across a copy of her […]