ROCKOLLECTIONS

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! Mike

It is Holy Week and the 2nd Week of my first ever Easter shows. We just had Palm Sunday and are now just days away from, and as close as the show gets to Easter Sunday. For Rockollections, it's the Year of Sunday! I thought it would be a good time for a Musical Look at Faith, Hope and Love. And one other cool thing later! How can I go wrong with those Virtues? Maybe I can...it's me, lol! Mike

More Music for Easter and this Spiritual Time Of Year! Turns out I really didn't have to chase many CD's and Records down, I just stayed with what I had, and the Thought Bubble I had. Like in Part One, I'll have a big Hit Song Done By It's Writer that may have eluded your ears. You will know more songs in this half, as I was not so much out there in the Heavens. Hey, it's ALL Music! Join me, I am...

I sat down to do a show and as happens occasionally, I changed my mind. The result, the First EVER Easter shows! But what could I PLAY for Easter? Some of the fun for me when I get a hasty impulse for a show is the scurrying around digging out songs- their number grows larger as I grow into the topic. Oddly, Passover is usually around the same time as Easter. I would have included it, but it is ne...

.It's St. Patrick's Day, and it is also my Irish friend Dave's Birthday. Continuing with my Roots Music, songs I used to get loaded to, hammered, but NO more. It's been many years since I quit drinking, and I don't miss it a bit. Some of these songs I remember as being more Rocking In The Pubs than they are on Record! But do enjoy the Music, I even have a couple of Ex-Beatles in here! Happy St. Pa...

Green is the Color Of The Day! This is a Show for St. Patrick's Day March 17th, and over the years I've only played a song or two to acknowledge it. This year will be different. For the first time, I will do a whole show dedicated to St. Patrick's Day. And don't be so skeptical, I'll have Artists and Songs you know or have heard of! This is Roots Music for me, so join me as I Sham-ROCK!Ouch...sorr...

This is it, I am going to wrap it up with the Trios. At least for now- there were many Leftovers, and I'd like to revisit some of the Groups I did not play. So it would seem a Sequel is called for at some future date. There are Bands in here that can really create a sound and knew very well how to make our Music! This short Series was a lot of fun for me. I can only hope you feel the same way, and...

More Trios, and some songs not on today's Radio Computerized Playlists. This Chapter is mostly 60's, but with dips into the 50's and 70's. Included, a Band that shocked me by how full and loud a sound they had. Remember, the Beatles were 4 guys and the Rolling Stones were 5!And another that seemed to revel in having lost members, proudly proclaiming they were now a Trio. Plus Musicians who got tog...

Prompted by March 3rd, or 03/03, I'll continue with Trios. Remember the Girl Groups of the early 60's? I'll have a couple that immediately come to mind. And a Band that was a Trio that became Bigger, as well as one that was Bigger and became a Trio- not all that unusual in Rock & Roll. To close this Episode, a Song for the Spiritual Side of this time of year. This will be continued next week!...

Here's how this Show came about. I noticed it would be broadcast terrestrially on March 3rd, or 03/03.And that made me think of Trios. Simple as that. Join me for a listen! Mike

Another Look At that part of Love that has the bumps in the road and the bruises that come with them. All part of this Valentine's Hangover! Centering on what is maybe the most frustrating aspect of Love, even for patient people- waiting for it to come along and find us. I'll bring it all home on a hopeful note, it's the least I can do after dwelling on Love's miserable side. You never know who's...

Valentine's Day has come and gone, and of course I hope you had a great one. This week, the Valentines Hangover- a NOT all sweetness, flowers and candy Musical Investigation of the other side of Love- for that faction who wants nothing to do with it, and all others who have been stung by it. In other words, if you are over the age of 10, you will relate, lol! Answering my own challenge, I managed...

Buddy Holly was a Pioneer, using instruments on his songs no one else was doing, and getting into some Latin rhythms. And Holly and the Crickets were self-contained- they wrote their own songs and recorded them the way they wanted! At a time when Artists did what Record Producers told them, Holly fought back until it sounded the way HE heard it in his mind's ear. Buddy was a true Rebel, and a majo...

This episode commemorating Feb 3rd, 1959 is about Buddy Holly because Holly was the major loss. J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, undoubtedly would have returned to Radio. Richie Valens was a wild card- he could have fizzled out or gone on to better things. But Buddy already had an extensive catalogue of Music that musicians continue to play to this day. And I'll play him too- by Buddy himself and...

This Chapter opens with a surprising Buddy Holly cover, that was also surprisingly done by Blind Faith on their one and only studio album. After a little more Buddy, I'll play you another interview you probably have never heard. This time it's Dick Clark with Buddy & The Crickets on the old American Bandstand, and again in October of 1958, just months before Holly's death. Then it's time to pa...

Some Planes crash, some Planes don’t. In light of our subject, I’ll open this chapter up with a song for a Hero Pilot. It’s about expecting more from yourself, and being better than the rest. Remember, this was done in 2009.I’ll give a tip of the hat to the end of last week’s show, the one with my favorite Buddy Holly song, by playing what was a rare version of it by a Wing, a Beatle and a Wife. F...