Idol Truth Book Review

Idol Truth is the story Leif Garrett's life and this is a book review.

Time For Timer

Time For Timer PSAs. In the 70’s along with junk food commercials on TV there were also health food PSAs. Cheaper foods with low quality were passed off to children who were willing to eat them.

Spill The Wine

Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War may be one of the best Psychedelic Era songs of all time. But by 1970 the hippy thing was not working anymore.

WPOD

I breakdown the song “White Punks On Dope” by the Tubes which came out in 1975. Affectionately known as WPOD some kids wanted to be that.

Taxi Song 1972

“The Ballad of Harry and Sue” or “I’m Flying in my Taxi” was a popular song from 1972. Read about how an archive of 70s stories was created.

Lou Reed and Nico

I examine the career of Lou Reed in terms of his best songs. Nico is compared to Adrian in the Movie Liquid Sky.

The Exxon Cartoon Tiger

Tony the Tiger is not the only cartoon tiger, there is also the Exxon Tiger. We examine the use of the Tiger in vintage tv commercials.

The Think Pink Panther Show

The Think Pink Panther Show was another way they mixed the older cartoons around to make them seem like a new show. I was looking for the “Think Pink Panther Show” song and I could not find it Youtube. I thought I remembered the words, but I really don’t very well. Someone else posted other words online, but I don’t remember them that way.

Foghat

What happened to the band Foghat known for the song Slow Ride from 1975.

Led Zeppelin Rumors

Crazy Led Zeppelin Rumors: Back in the 70s Led Zeppelin was the most popular band in America. But what I knew about them was based on rumors

The Golden Age of Children’s Music

The Golden Age of Children's Music. Out of Print and hard to find records for children.

Stephen Capen Radio DJ

Stephen Capen was my favorite radio DJ, but he did not last very long on the air in San Francisco. He was fired often from various radio jobs. Read his publicly posted resume.

Mary Queen of Scots a Real Life Soap Opera

We stop to consider the tragic life of Mary Queen of Scots and how it relates to 70s Music.

To Cry You a Song

Jethro Tull broke up in 2012, but no one noticed

Gram Parsons at Joshua Tree

Gram Parson is the most famous singer I never heard of because none of his songs were hits. None of them were played on the radio in the 70s. He died at The Joshua Tree Inn in 1973.