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A lot of traveling in this Episode, finishing up in L.A. and then a trip across country back to New York.

After that, a short stop on Long Island, before the long journey across the pond to more of the scene in…

I realize just how impossible it is to play all the songs I want to in this 1967 And The Summer Of Love series, no matter how many years it takes.

In this opening half, I'll have something I couldn't ignore, Protest Music...just…

We'll close out our featured artist in this final episode, beginning with a song I would have bought based on the title alone.

I'll have the 3rd of the songs the Beatles covered by Carl.…

I was busy this week so this is an old show, I mean an OLD show, lol!

Among all my favorite kinds of music, Rockabilly has always been right up there.

There is a raucous letting go that…

Food, Glorious Food is the Theme.

After a quick Picnic, a trip to one of the truly great places for Food, New Orleans.

And since NOLA Food is so rich,…

I am sure many of you went to a Barbecue this past Memorial Day.

Almost guaranteed were Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and French Fries!

I went to do an Odds and Ends show with that subconsciously in my…

The Memorial Day Remembrance concludes for this year, but in my heart continues the other 364 days.

This time, I'll open with a song about a guy who, I hate to say it, would have made it easier on his family and himself if he had…

Memorial Day is May 28th, it used to always be on May 30th before our fixation with Monday Holidays.

It is a day of Remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service- the ultimate…

Spring is Mating Season for Birds as well as many other earthly creatures.

This is the closer for this Jukebox Exploration.

Despite some old statistics, I've always felt Jukeboxes made most of their money in bars.…

I began last week with Music dedicated to the glorious Jukebox.

It's the Jukebox or the Juke Box this time out (either spelling is acceptable), that Coin-Operated Phonograph.

I'll have some History here- both about that machine and with the Music I'll play.

And see if you can pick up on the thread that holds together the…

There were too many good Songs About Records left over to leave them out.

So I thought I'd come back and finish it up.

There was one vinyl single I placed close to me a long time ago, just in…

Finishing up my acknowledgement of Record Store Day last Saturday, a recreation by Thomas Edison, inventor of the Phonograph or Gramophone, of the first words he ever spoke on Record, which was actually on a Cylinder.

I'll go off on…

Just a little late, I'll pay due respect to Record Store Day, which was this past Saturday.

The Day is dedicated to Independent Storeowners, and while I am sure there must be one…

This is it, we made it, time to figuratively throw dirt on our Musical Exploration of Death In Song!

I’ll even read a Poem!

I picked the Music to end with, as I pick all the Music- I play…

I am back with and winding down the Lighter Side of It’s Only Death, beginning with a guy who was both a Satirist and Mathematician, and appeared frequently on PBS.

A friend of mine, Clay Eals, wrote a book about Steve Goodman and had a…

I’ll start this Chapter with a Song that is probably the first one I heard that had such very Upbeat Music masking a Serious Message.

We have been listening to not so terribly sad Death Songs, the premise of the…

After a week off, it’s back on track for...hey, It’s Only Death, lol!

Still trying to prove that contrary to popular opinion Death can be a Ball Of Laughs.

Oh alright, but not…