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The Rumpus never holds a grudge. Get Our Overly Personal. Letters In The Mail. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Because our Book Club. Has been so much fun, and because we also love poetry and think people should read more poetry, we’ve started a Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Exactly the same as our regular book club, but a little cheaper because most of the books are expected to be paperbacks (though a lot of them will probably be hardcover as well). So it’s $25 a month. You can write a review of the book and we...
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I estivate, therefore I am: Will It Go Round in CIrcles, Billy Preston (1972)
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Saturday, May 10, 2014. Will It Go Round in CIrcles, Billy Preston (1972). I'm unhappily winding down my thrilling read of Mark Lewisohn's Tune In. It started out that way, but the promoters pressured him and by the end of the first Liverpool performance he and the audience were frothing at the mouth from the frenzy he'd stirred up, the likes of which young Billy had not previously se...
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I estivate, therefore I am: Only the Good Die Young, Billy Joel (1977)
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Sunday, May 26, 2013. Only the Good Die Young, Billy Joel (1977). In popular music, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you do. Produce and perform well into your 60s and 70s, you're ridiculed and compared to a dinosaur. If you don't. Produce and perform, choosing instead to just live your life, you're a wash-up. Could I get away with requesting it, in this crowd?
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I estivate, therefore I am: She Loves You, the Beatles (1963)
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Saturday, February 8, 2014. She Loves You, the Beatles (1963). I wasn't planning on it, being the morose sort, but I was powerless against it. Just be in the presence of a song like She Loves You. The third of five songs the Beatles sang on their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance - and tell me how it is possible to maintain the status quo after that. The same as you felt then? Yes, th...
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I estivate, therefore I am: Under the Boardwalk, Drifters (1964)
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Sunday, November 4, 2012. Under the Boardwalk, Drifters (1964). For people who don't live in a coastal region, or visit one regularly, the notion of a boardwalk probably means very little. The song, which was a hit for the Drifters. The song was recorded under difficult circumstances, as the then-lead singer, Rudy Lewis (that's him on Up on the Roof. Of these phenomenally great songs:...
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I estivate, therefore I am: December 2013
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Sunday, December 29, 2013. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues, Bob Dylan (1961). For quite awhile, I've been of the belief that just about every moment in time can be linked to a song in my mind. Usually, it's a song that I already know about; that would only make sense. But on Christmas earlier this week, I discovered my theory also applies to songs that I don't. Turns out i...
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I estivate, therefore I am: Rock the Boat, Hues Corporation (1974)
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Thursday, July 4, 2013. Rock the Boat, Hues Corporation (1974). Before we begin, I'd like the record to show that I hold my grocery store responsible for the following. Post I've mentioned before that it pipes baby boomer music into the shopping experience at all times, a practice I'm very much in favor of as it puts me in a good mood even when I'm not. But the song really wasn't a di...
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I estivate, therefore I am: February 2014
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Saturday, February 8, 2014. She Loves You, the Beatles (1963). I wasn't planning on it, being the morose sort, but I was powerless against it. Just be in the presence of a song like She Loves You. The third of five songs the Beatles sang on their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance - and tell me how it is possible to maintain the status quo after that. The same as you felt then? Yes, th...
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I estivate, therefore I am: July 2012
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I estivate, therefore I am. One baby boomer's quest to learn everything that no one knew about the music back in the day. Thursday, July 5, 2012. Rescue Me, Fontella Bass (1965). I reacquainted myself last week with Taxi, an old album of Bryan Ferry's that he produced with Robin Trower, and on that he's got an intriguing cover of Rescue Me. Which led me to ask myself the musical question, "whatever happened to Fontella Bass? Or for that matter, who was Fontella Bass? Hold On This Time. Soul of a Man.
