Saturday since I didn't have to work, I did go down to Iowa City/Coralville for some record finding and Kalone to pay my respects to Boone Novy who left us just about one month ago. Finally found his site after the third try, which as my coworker said it was just about 20 feet from the road. The road to Kalona is somewhat hilly with lots of spread out farmland and where the Amish live. A lot of them had their horse and carriages to take them places but that road that I was on 540th Street I think had some out of the way grocery stores and churches which went way back. Since the road was paved, not gravel, I didn't figure I get lost. And I didn't. Made it to Kalona okay.
With the lateness of the trip, Record Collector will have to wait till another time but Housewerks had some off the wall CDs and even found a bunch of albums at The Salvation Army (Jimi Hendrix Cry Of Love for 79 cents!) Stuff Etc and Goodwill had nothing really. The biggest finds were a bunch of 45s at the Salvation Army that were in pretty good shape without sleeves. Got 8 of them but somehow Brian Hyland's Ginny Come Lately and The Serendipity Singers Crooked Little Man managed to sneak in for the ride back to Hoarder's Palace. Supper was at Los Portales. And it was off to downtown to Los Lobos show.
While I was gone, Bob Dorr's Backtracks was done live in the studio and once again he didn't disappoint in the music that was requested. Guess which songs were requested from me? http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/ipr-studioone/guide.guidemain?action=viewPlaylist&playlistID=779121&eventID=145135
The answer will be in the next top ten, you'll have to wait for that ;-)
http://bullfrogspond.com/ Where to go if you want to know the highest chart position of a certain song. The dudes at Besides It's A B Side at Facebook uses this as a reference.
Death never takes a holiday, Richard Dawson passed away. He was in Hogan's Heroes and later Family Feud (can't fucking spell today, everything is either turned around or misspelled). Died at the age of 79.
Not a lot of comments have been worth posting, although the ones that I did you can read in preceding blogs. Thanks for all the kudos and clarifications of mistakes in the original blogs. I usually go back and redo and reedit where ever is possible. Especially on the Bugs Gonzalez gaffe. Hard to hear what people are saying or singing but damn the music was booty shaking good.
Thanks Delta Moon for the shout out about the new album. They will be in Park Tavern tonight for the new release party. In Atlanta. Maybe we can get Delta Moon to play the Arts Festival next year?
More additions:
CDs
New York Dolls-The Glamorous Life (Big Ear)
The Dragsters-Stoked (Great Jones/Island)
60's Girls Group (WB)
Peter Shelley-Homosapien (Razor n Tie)
LPs!
Phillip Bailey-Chinese Wall (Columbia)
Southern Pacific-Killbilly Hill (WB)
Jimi Hendrix-Cry Of Love (Reprise)
Billy Burnette-Try Me (Curb/MCA)
Rock Rose (Columbia)
45s!
Brian Hyland-Ginny Come Lately (ABC Paramount 45-10294)
Danny Williams-This Comedy Is Over (United Artists UA 685)
The Searchers-Bumble Bee (Kapp Winners Circle Series KJB 49)
The Browns-Oh No! (RCA 47-8242)
The Ran-Dells Martian Hop (Chairman/London 45-4403)
Jimmy McGriff-Discothque USA (Sue 123)
Dion Dimuci-Donna The Prima Donna (Columbia 4-42852)
The Serendipity Singers-Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Philips 40175)
Johnny Tillotson-Worried Guy (MGM K13193)
Rolf Harris-Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport (Epic 5-9596)
Vintage Email: 2008
From Andy McKaie
Thanks for your e-mail to Hip-O Select. Interesting suggestion regarding The Brains. We'll look into it.
Thanks.
Best,
Andy McKaie
From The Archives: Reuniting with Dennis Pusateri at Hy Vee May 2007
Time has a way of catching up on us. We wake up to the morning light of the sun and see it set and watch the moon rise and all the while we get older.
It's interesting to meet with old friends that you lose touch of. Just the other day I wonder about whatever happened to Dennis Pusateri, who we used to work at the old Pell Department back when Pearson Inc. was NCS. And for a good couple years, we would trade back CDs to listen to and bullshit along the way working at a boring job of processing pell grant applications. I got to meet his brother one night at Maxie's in Iowa City, a couple years later his brother was murdered in the Jim's Food parking lot, which was a couple blocks away from where I used to live at. It still remains unsolved to this day.
But all in all Dennis was always the happy go lucky stoner dude, who never seem to run out of things to say. Eventually he got laid off at NCS and I moved on Data Input and later the computer printing room and we lost contact, till I ran into him at Sav A Lot 10 years ago and we talked a bit. And then disappeared.
The Hy Vee Cafeteria is the perfect place to go during lunch break. You can do your shopping and grab a bite to eat before getting back to work and with high gas prices no trip is a joyride anymore, I have to make things count when I jump into the car. But while sitting through a second plate of noodles and rice, this long haired person came up to me and we chatted a bit. And it was good old Dennis coming into my life once again. He's almost fifty now and told me that he's a grandpa now, something that I cannot picture him being of. And as we sat and talked a while, the more he talked to more the old Dennis was there, very talkative, a bit of bullshitter and still happy go lucky, even though he says he doesn't work that much.
It's amazing how we all age and move on to other things but once when we run into somebody from the past, the old good feelings of reconizing somebody always lights up the face. But he did say that he does pop up from time to time over at that Hy Vee quite a bit.
Perhaps I'll see him again, I know I will. I just hope it isn't another 10 years that our paths cross again.
From The Archives: Reuniting with Dennis Pusateri at Hy Vee May 2007
Time has a way of catching up on us. We wake up to the morning light of the sun and see it set and watch the moon rise and all the while we get older.
It's interesting to meet with old friends that you lose touch of. Just the other day I wonder about whatever happened to Dennis Pusateri, who we used to work at the old Pell Department back when Pearson Inc. was NCS. And for a good couple years, we would trade back CDs to listen to and bullshit along the way working at a boring job of processing pell grant applications. I got to meet his brother one night at Maxie's in Iowa City, a couple years later his brother was murdered in the Jim's Food parking lot, which was a couple blocks away from where I used to live at. It still remains unsolved to this day.
But all in all Dennis was always the happy go lucky stoner dude, who never seem to run out of things to say. Eventually he got laid off at NCS and I moved on Data Input and later the computer printing room and we lost contact, till I ran into him at Sav A Lot 10 years ago and we talked a bit. And then disappeared.
The Hy Vee Cafeteria is the perfect place to go during lunch break. You can do your shopping and grab a bite to eat before getting back to work and with high gas prices no trip is a joyride anymore, I have to make things count when I jump into the car. But while sitting through a second plate of noodles and rice, this long haired person came up to me and we chatted a bit. And it was good old Dennis coming into my life once again. He's almost fifty now and told me that he's a grandpa now, something that I cannot picture him being of. And as we sat and talked a while, the more he talked to more the old Dennis was there, very talkative, a bit of bullshitter and still happy go lucky, even though he says he doesn't work that much.
It's amazing how we all age and move on to other things but once when we run into somebody from the past, the old good feelings of reconizing somebody always lights up the face. But he did say that he does pop up from time to time over at that Hy Vee quite a bit.
Perhaps I'll see him again, I know I will. I just hope it isn't another 10 years that our paths cross again.
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