Okay. Summer's over. Labor Day's over. Back to school! And speaking of education, I'm gonna drop a little on you. This Toxic Tuesday posting is about a time in pop-music history when racism, overt and subtle, was a fact of the business. And you could even find it in the seemingly innocuous pablum dished out by that paragon of white-bread, god-fearing America, actor/singer Pat Boone.As late as t...
My earliest memories of music being in my life seem to be when I was about four years old. My main source of musical intake came from the pop hits of the day I'd hear on the radio or from the bedroom of my older sister. Sadly I remember hearing songs like "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi and "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister (shudder), but I also recall some 80s popalicious hits like "Invisibl...
All i have to say about this one is "Why?" (Of course, he did a whole "*album of metal songs*":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005KOE/mikewebersweberw, from whjich this is taken...)
A fabulous 1957 gospel LP by Pat Boone--Grade-A tunes, Pat's voice at its youthful best (I've always wanted to type "youthful best"), and, for that matter, much better than average Dot label jacket art. I speak as someone not impressed, in general, by Dot's cover concoctions.Fully expecting to find the usual macho pan, I check out Allmusic's review of Hymns We Love and was pleasantly surprised ...