thích quảng dức: meet the monkees

☛ ‘i wanna hold your hand’ ☚

life’s a drag, petrolhead

pa-130. Tearing down the straight and narrow in 1963 with Johnny Sudetta, a Clevelander who moved out west to CA in 1959. Written by R. Christian & J. Sudetta, and recorded by the rechristened Fortune Cookie at the age of just sixteen; he was invited by Johnny Burnette to tour England in the same year

keeper of the sea

“tami red shoes” by doris kloster, 1995. After a conversation with Jon regarding Burgess Meredith in an episode of “The Twilight Zone” I stumbled on this over on DJ Little Danny’s splendid Office Naps. It immediately made me recall all those evocative jazz tinted themes played out on a loop on vintage American tv. Surf,

missa luba: gloria in excelsis deo

gloria in excelsis deo. Well, the intention was to lead today with an extended celebration of Van’s “Gloria”, but following yesterday’s (very courteous, admittedly) visitation by the “web sheriff” it would seem that’s no longer on the agenda. Of all those covers of this wonderful song, my own favourite is perhaps Patti Smith‘s from 1975’s