Simon and Garfunkel

Simon and Garfunkel were one of the most popular folk influenced music groups of all time. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met as childhood friends in their Forest Hills, Queens New York neighborhood. They would go from such common beginnings to becoming one of the biggest musical acts in American history, filling concert halls everywhere [...]

Queen

I recall when I was a kid my parents would take me on vacations to the Adirondacks (Lake George area) in upstate New York.  It was about a 6 hour trip from our Northern New Jersey home and I’d spend the time sitting bored in the car watching the trees goes by.  Many times prior [...]

Steely Dan

When I was a wee lad my mother was going to medical school to become an RN. My father was working full time at a heavy machinery factory so subsequently my mother had to take me with her to college and I’d spend the day in day care. I was only three or four years [...]

Petula Clark

Petula Clark was one of the most popular British female pop vocals during the sixties and seventies. In that time she had 15 consecutive number one hits, that’s some serious business an achievement matched by few.   While she is primarily known as a pop singer Petula also has acted in a great many movies, performed [...]

The Crew Cuts

The Crew Cuts were a doo-wop group that originated in Toronto, Canada.  They came to be in the heart of doo-wop’s popularity during the mid 1950s.  All in all they lasted twelve years, from 1952 to 1964.  The group was comprised of four primary members whom all attended the same school choir back in Toronto, [...]