The end of the school year is fast approaching. As I take my son back and forth on what will be his final year in high school, I find myself drifting back in time to when we looked forward to summer break. My childhood was filled with great ones. In 1975 I took a two week trip west across Canada with my grandmother in her 1972 Skylark which changed my life, and my world view, for the better. That was almost completely undone when my parents attempted to take my sister and I on a similar trip to Canada’s East Coast in 1977. It was a study in stark contrasts on how not to travel with one’s family.
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JAIMIE VERNON – K-TEL’S SHINING STARS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1974, 1975, 22 Explosive Hits, 8-tracks, Bay City Rollers, Billy Paul, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Malvern, cassettes, CFTR, Chi-Lites, CHUM, Commodores, DBAWIS, Delfonics, Disco, Disco Rock, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dorothy Moore, Earth Wind & Fire, Isaac Hayes, Jaimie Vernon, James Brown, Jim Croce, John Denver, K-Tel, Kiss, Lou Rawls, LPs, Main Ingredient, Maurice White, O'Jays, Pursuaders, Scarborough, Shining Star, Sly & The Family Stone, Soul Train, Spinners, Stylistics, Temptations, The Apollo Theatre, The Carpenters, The Dells, The Dramatics, Three Degrees, Top 40, Toronto on February 6, 2016 by segarini
I’ve run out of epitaphs. The battlefield of pop continues to accumulate bodies. During this past week we were reminded of the passing of Karen Carpenter (33 years ago) and the officially recognized Day the Music Died (really? Then what have we been listening to in the intervening 57 years?).
JAIMIE VERNON – SUMMERTIME MUSE, Part 1
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Bugs Bunny, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dorothy Moore, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Herman's Hermits, hot asphalt, Hot Rods, Jaimie Vernon, KC & The Sunshine Band, Lords of London, Mashmakhan, parking cars, parking lot, Stampeders, stereo, summer, Summertime, symphony, Tammy Faye Bakker., The Beatles, The Cyrkle, The Rascals, Three Dog Night on July 5, 2014 by segarini
This week I felt the true effects of summer’s immutable power. My eyelids got sunburnt.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 