"One Poor Correspondent"

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This is the one thousandth post in the history of "One Poor Correspondent." It is with very mixed emotions that I feel compelled t...

If you followed pop music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the name "Jimmie Rodgers" wouldn't have signified the Singing Bra...

Happy birthday to David Gates, the mastermind behind Bread, who turns 69 today. Bread purveyed a variety of music - wimp-pop - that is more ...

Do ya? The moonlight overthrew ya How to shoot at someone who outdrew ya I used to live alone before I knew ya Do ya? (again!) What's it...

On the American Top Forty from June 29, 1974, Casey Kasem introduced the latest hit from ZZ Top, a little song called "La Grange,"...

To my dismay, but not to my surprise, Indie 101.5, Denver's best radio station , closed up shop last week. It's now trying to surviv...

In his biography, Moonwalk , Michael Jackson clues us in on the origin of Quincy Jones' nickname. Jones, who famously produced Jackson...

I have one more Beatles tidbit for you, taken from the book Revolution in the Head , as have been the Beatles items of the past few days. Th...

Canadian pop singer Paul Anka turns 68 today. Anka was a huge star back in the late Fifties when he was just a teenager; "Diana," ...