
Swinging Sixties Tips “Well let’s dance, well let’s dance, We’ll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too, Any old dance that you wanna do.” “When you dance be sure to hold her, hold her tight When you dance you’ll squeeze her, yeah with all your might” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YVO8OxBipU

In December 1965, The Beatles released Rubber Soul, an album which enthralled Brian Wilson. Until then, each Beach Boys album (like most rock albums) contained a few “filler tracks” like cover songs or even stitched-together comedy bits. Wilson found Rubber Soul filled with all-original songs and, more importantly, all good ones, none of them filler. Read More …

“Magic Moments” “The Magic Kiss” “This Magic Moment” “Those Magic Changes” “Do You Believe in Magic?”

It’s a marshmallow world in the winter When the snow comes to cover the ground It’s the time for play It’s a whipped cream day I wait for it the whole year around Now those marshmallow clouds being friendly In the arms of the ever-green-trees And the sun is red like a pumpkin hay It’s Read More …

I have often walked down this street before But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before All at once am I several stories high Knowing I’m on the street where you live Are there lilac trees in the heart of town Can you hear a lark in any other part of town Does enchantment Read More …

Here they are: Denise, Anna, Diana, Florence, Gloria and, nonetheless, Carol And the one already famous: