CD
Bobby Darin-You're The Reason I'm Living/18 Yellow Roses B
Johnny Cash-Blood, Sweat And Tears. A-
45's
Nice Girls-Melissa Manchester (Arista AS-1045) #42 1983
Look To Your Soul-Johnny Rivers (Imperial 66286) #49 1968 (picture sleeve only)
Summer Rain #14 1967 (Imperial 66267) 1967
Up On Cripple Creek-The Band (Capitol 2625) #25 1969
Star Love-The Playmates (Roulette R-4136) #75 1959
ZouZou Mansour of Soraia. Wicked Cool Records Photo Credit
To be honest, most of the Half Price Book 45 collection was picked clean but there was still a few decent finds, tho 2.99 for Pacman Fever was too pricey. The lovely Missy Manchester's time with Arista was coming to an close but she got a sizable hit with Nice Girls a new wave pop hit not unlike what Sheena Huston was doing. B Side Hey Ricky, sounds too same to Nice Girls but a bit more fun I think. The goofy Playmates continue their pop and glop with Star Love, tho The Thing Ma A Jig was a bit more fun, but probably too much of a rip of their major hit Beep Beep. I'd to find What Is Love but again, that's not high on the list of things to get. The Band's Cripple Creek is a classic as well as B side The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Interesting to see the picture sleeve of Johnny Rivers Look Into Your Soul, and finding the number 17 Summer Rain instead. One of those annoying wrong record in the wrong picture sleeve. Due to the bad weather, Half Price Books closed early so I didn't have to time to quiz the folks at the buy counter about a big box of 45s in the aisle, or if they were going to donate them or put them out, to which I'm sure they will. So perhaps next year, I'll be seeing more goodies in the 45's bins.
Dennis O Dell-Helper of the Beatles died at age 98.
John Madden passed away from a sudden illness at age 85. Best known for being part of the greatest NFL commentators with Pat Summerall, but also Raider Coach. The 1970 miracle year of George Blanda is my fave highlight.
Bruce Bromberg-Producer for Robert Cray's breakthrough album Strong Persuader and founder of Hightone Records died on December 26
Harry Reid-Long time Nevada congressman died Tuesday. He was 82.
Basically, to conclude the Bowl Season. All teams lost. Arizona State lost to Wisconsin in the Las Vegas Bowl. Iowa State cheezed out by Clemson and Iowa blows the lead and bad Brian Farenez play calling to lose to Kentucky. To tilt the scales to the SEC Georgia and Alabama should have played the second game after the first but thanks to being blue bloods of College Football, they will play the last game of the season. To which at this point, we don't really care. Georgia blew out Michigan, Albama blew out Cincinnati. And life goes on.
In the case of Spencer Petras, he's human. In the case of Brian Farenez, he's an idiot. If you have forth in inches, if you believed in your offense line, you have gone for it. However, Brian and his idiot dad Kirk decided to punt and let the Defense stop them, to which they didn't. By the time the Hawks got the ball back all Petras can do was try to throw it and get yards and he threw an INT and Kentucky won out. Father Fernenz has been the longest tenured coach in the Big Ten and one good thing he is good at is to win the cupcake games and lose the big games on TV. At times, he could surprise, blowing out Ohio State and the odious Urban Meyer years ago, and this season he got a Penn State win before losing to Wisconsin and Purdue, only to get lucky and win the rest of the games and Wisconsin tripping and falling. If Nebraska would have held the lead and play four quarters this would be a moot point but they managed to get into the Championship Big Ten game and stink it up. Petras didn't do no favors throwing INTs but he doesn't play defense. And Iowa didn't play defense on Kentucky's final drive. The fans' ire on Petras is overwhelming and may serve as a purpose for him to use the transfer portal to another team. He did fine last season but playing hurt didn't help. Alex Padilla showed signs of getting the offense going but then he didn't inspire to which Petras came in to beat Nebraska. But still the overall season for Iowa will be mixed and probably filed under disappointment. They had the defense most of the year, the offense was another story. Too many dropped passes, inconsistent quarterbacking whoever came in and certainly Brian Ferenz, who should just stick to the offense line and not co ordinator. He certainly didn't do the job this year.
Another shit winter storm and this time the Winter Storm POS 4, gave us 4 and half inches of wet snow and rain and sleet. More snow on the way for tomorrow and New Year's. I managed to clear a path out to the driveway only to have more snow.
At this point we finish the year of bargain hunts, to give you a clue of what I found at the local stores and thrift shops. This will mark the 20th year of blogging, something that I didn't think would ever happened. Social Media really didn't make us the next Christgau or Lefsetz, and both will continue after we say enough and go back to reality world. In the 20 years of observations the ones that stand out the most are.
1) Tower Records Closing
2) The 2005 Sony/BMG Rootkit virus on copy protect CDs that basically killed off CD Sales.
3) Hastings Entertainment Closing.
Tower was a hangout when I lived in Phoenix and Hastings was the place to go to find cheap music on my Arizona/Washington State bargain hunts. The Virgin Music Mart was another cool place to hang in Vegas and in Phoenix too. While people flocked to the Grand Canyon, I spent it going to FYE or Virgin or Zia's Records. Fun times, great memories, of going to FYE stores no longer around.
So anyway, 2021 is over and done with. I don't care to live another year of crap, Derechos, snowstorms, indifferent ratings (is 2009 the best year for music, judging by the ratings here they are). Even Betty White decided that she had enough and checked out of this world. She was 99.
2022 will be more of the same, babies will be born, people will die, and bands will break up and new bands will come along. Perhaps we'll keep inventory of what is found. But I need a break from it all.
The archives and singles going steady discography and other faves will be open for your pleasure.
Till we meet again.
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