Good Friday morning gang, and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember American tenor and actor Mario Lanza, on what would have been his 99th Birthday. A heart attack claimed his life in 1959, age 38. To honor his legacy, we spotlight the soundtrack to one of his films, The Student Prince.  Our copy was released in 1959 on the RCA Victor Red Seal ‎label. This must be one of the Mrs.' favorite albums, because she knew every word ...

A1 Overture

Written-By…

Good morning Thursday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we joyfully celebrate the 69th Birthday of  English drummer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor, Phil Collins. Happy Birthday Phil ! To commemorate the date we spotlight the self titled 12th album by Genesis. The LP was released October 3, 1983 on the Atlantic label and produced by Genesis and Hugh Padgham. It peaked at #1 in the UK, Germany, and Finland, #2 in Canada, the…

Good morning, Wednesday warriors and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember  American poet, singer-songwriter, and actor, Rod McKuen, on this, the 5th anniversary of his death. He passed away in 2015, age 81, from pneumonia. To honor his legacy, we spotlight his 36th vocal album, Rod. Rod was released in 1972 on Stanyan Records and produced by Rod and Wade Alexander. 

A1 A Kind Of Loving 2:48

Arranged by Dick Grove

Conducted by Arthur…

Good morning lovers of all things vinyl and welcome back to the Tuesday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember drummer Brian Keenan, on what would have his 77th Birthday. He passed away in 1985, age 42, from a heart attack. He was best known for his work in an early Manfred Mann and in the psychedelic blues band The Chambers Brothers. It's his work on their 5th studio record, Feelin' The Blues, that is our subject of sound today.  Feelin' The Blues was released in 1970 on the…

Good Monday morning, morning people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we find ourselves celebrating the 69th Birthday of Irish drummer and founding member, Brian Downey, best known for his work with Thin Lizzy. Happy Birthday Brian ! With him in mind, we spotlight the sixth studio album, by the Irish rockers, Jailbreak. Jailbreak was released  March 26, 1976 on the Mercury label and produced by John Alcock. It reached #18 on the Billboard 200, #10 in the UK, and #5 in…

Good Sunday morning to you gang and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we joyfully celebrate the 65th Birthday of  Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, inventor, guitarist, founding member, and namesake,  Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen.  Happy Birthday Eddie !

To mark the momentous occasion, we spotlight their 4th studio album, Fair Warning. Fair Warning was released  April 29, 1981 on the Warner Brothers label and produced by Ted Templeman. It has been certified…

Good morning gang and welcome to the return of Saturday's Singles. Our first single comes to us via British New Wave band Adam And The Ants. "Antmusic" was released November 28, 1980 on Epic Records and produced by Chris Hughes. It peaked at #1 in Australia,  #2 in South Africa and the UK, and #14 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts. It's parent album is their second one, Kings Of The Wild Frontier, and its' B-side is , "Don't Be Square (Be There)". Their former bassist, Gary…

I was a genie in a bottle
Before you rubbed on my lamp
Audition for the picker
Got the role of tramp
Spending my days marking wishes on lists
Survey says ignorance is bliss.

Good morning vinyl enthusiasts and welcome back to the Friday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember record producer and musician David Cole, who with his musical partner,  Robert Clivillés, are best known as the C+C in the C+C Music Factory. Cole passed away on this day in 1995, age 32, from spinal meningitis.  To honor his legacy we spotlight this 4 record compilation box set,  Greatest Remixes Vol. 1.  The LPs were released in 1992 on the Columbia label and produced…

Creative destruction
We are unmade
Our building blocks
Crumbled and tossed
Like rocks into the sea
Crushed by the weight
Of our own habitual inconsistency

Signal unto me
Your virtue
This guise has nearly destroyed
Your pitch perfect perptitude
Broken wind up toys
Find joy in the hands of the burnt ones

The machines are knee deep

In their toil

While we sleep

And dream of valiant heroes and despicable villains

They rearrange the ones and zeroes

Pushing our buttons

Rewriting our code

Replacing old thought with new programming

Shambling logic eaten by rotten emotion chips

We set out thinking upgrades

Would make us better

Turns out we kept our word and gargled glass

With broken letters

How can our garbled…

You only like me when I'm ambiguous

Don't be ridiculous we love to look at you in the pitch black room

With the volume maxed out and the conversation on mute

We'd call you low hanging fruit, but truth is,

We picked you up from off the ground

And hung you from our meathook ,charged admission, let everyone come in and have a look

The bitter scraps of tattered paper tasteless wafers now I've eaten

And know the things you need me to say, and you're in…

Good morning vinyl junkies and welcome to the Thursday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember founding member, guitarist and vocalist, Terry Kath, of the Chicago based band, Chicago, on this, the 42nd anniversary of his death. He died in 1978 following an accidental gunshot wound to the head. He was 31 years old. With him in mind we spotlight their sixth studio album Chicago VII. The double LP was released March 11, 1974, on the Columbia label and produced by James William…

Good morning Wednesday warriors and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we gleefully celebrate the 71st Birthday of former Journey front man, Steve Perry. Happy Birthday Steve !  With him in mind, we present their fifth studio album, Evolution. Evolution was released  March 23, 1979 on the Columbia label and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200, #35 in Canada, and #36 in Sweden. The disc gave birth to three singles ; "Just the Same Way" (#58 Hot…

Good Tuesday morning to you, morning people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember guitarist, vocalist and the man who opened Woodstock, Richie Havens, on what would have been his 79th Birthday. The Brooklyn native passed away in 2013, age 72, from a heart attack. To honor his legacy, we spotlight what some perceive as his best album, his debut album, Mixed Bag. Mixed Bag was released in 1967 (although I've found sources that also say '66 and '68) on the Verve…

My itinerant temerity
Disguises the severity
Of the absence of clarity

I can't sleep

My machine is broken

An extreme token

Of the scene inside the dream

Where I'm unplugged and no one hears me scream

I'm like time travel

I'm starting to unravel

It's seems I'm coming apart at the seams

I keep trying to go back and right the wrong things

But the signal's been lost in the art of transaction

When there's a product so popular

The public must have it

Fire and water and logic

Do not…

Good Monday morning gang and welcome to the Martin Luther King Jr. edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Hopefully we all take the day to reflect on the things that we have in common rather than the differences between us . There are very few other facets in life, more than music, that has helped bridge divides and bring people together and one such performer would have to be the legendary Ray Charles.   His 1962  ABC-Paramount album, Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, is our subject…

In repose

Like I've posed again

Fathom phantoms

Loss of friends

Like severed limbs

A drastic open basket

Raw and bundled nerves

A truly fitting send off

Much more than what's deserved

And served on a silver sliver platter

It slithers towards unto me

As if to ask

What is the matter

The rain beats down

Pushing it's relentless patter

Shadows against the stone

This lighthouse now our home

We dine…

I wish I had all these assurances
That people demand of their circumstances
But I'm still searching for something certain
The reveal behind the curtain
A damn raft or even an oar
To cling to in this frantic current
Would be more than I'm used to
But currently the sea doesn't consist
Of consistency.