in memory
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I heard somebody say
The ’70s had some great music … and this is another fine example from The Trammps. Plus it’s a two-for, because “Disco Inferno” was a minor hit in 1977 and a huge hit the next year with “Saturday Night Fever.” Hard to overstate how big that movie and that soundtrack was, for John Travolta and Continue reading
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A stellar songwriter
If there are songs that help to tell the story of your life, then Gordon Lightfoot has one or two songs on my personal soundtrack. For better or worse. Looking over popular music over the past number of decades, there are some artists you don’t really understand why they became famous, and at the same Continue reading
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An epic life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-dies-appreciation-haygood/ We lost a giant this week: Harry Belafonte. I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s and knew Belafonte not as a singer or an actor but as a civil rights activist and a force for good. (I thank my mom for telling me about him.) But even I, knowing some of the story, Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 