Mike Pell's Blog – February 2022 Archive (8)

I noticed that we are just a few days away from March 3rd, or 3/3.

I didn't want to wait for it to fall on the day of the show- who knows where I'll be then.

Rather, the urge came over me to play songs now that were Three Of A Kind, things connected…

I'll finish up with the Namedropping for now, until it's brought back at some time in the Future.

This time it's Songs containing the Names of Classic Rock & Rollers!

I was thinking, the whole point of dropping names is that the listener KNOW the…

Let's do another round of Namedropping.

Beginning with a song that not only mentions the Mamas & Papas, Donovan and the Beatles, but features credible impressions of each.

After that, I thought I'd play the Namedropping of famous…

More of The 60's Poets, and their Thoughts and Stories About Love.

The great thing about Poetry is that it is open to interpretation.

What it means to you can be entirely different from what it means to me.

And we are both right!

The intent with these Words of The 60's Poets was…

For St. Valentine’s Day a return to the 60's for The Poets.

This will close the British Invasion out...for now.

It was too much fun and the Music was too damn good to just end it.

So I will return to it periodically.

But for this Chapter, I'll start with a song that…

On Feb. 9th 1964, the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

I watched it as a kid, and it's an odd feeling knowing what you did PRECISELY on a given date over a half century ago!

In fact, it's never happened to me…

As noted before, on Feb. 7th 1964, the Beatles landed at Kennedy Airport met by reporters and mostly screaming girls, and Beatlemania and The British Invasion was born.

Those two terms may seem interchangeable now, but I'll point out the difference.…