Once upon a time, kids, very popular recording artists could sing about love--- tribal love, love for humanity, love for joining together in song and love for each other without irony, without schmaltz, and without embarrassment. I’m time traveling now, but that’s Just Between You and Me. Here’s some tunes from the heady days of Brotherly Love, a short list of 10 of the best.
The Book of Norman Gets More Press, but first, about this guy!
And that was the setting for the happy news that The Book of Norman has been reviewed by critic and poet Fred Shaw for the Ocean State Review Read all about it.
Who are these guys? —The Ron Hicklin Singers
by Dai Bando Beginning in the 1950s and peaking in the 1960s, there sprang forth from the hills of Hollywood, a loose collective of session musicians whom industry insiders nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew." In the post-Brit Invasion recording frenzy, L.A.’s star-making machinery wanted their young performers to quickly grow their hair into a pudding bowl... Continue Reading →
Just Between You and Me 