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JAIMIE VERNON – STAMPS OF APPROVAL

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Battlestar Galactica, Bob Segarini, Bones, Canada Post, Canadian Music, coins, collecting, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, home delivery, House of Windsor, Jaimie Vernon, James Doohan, John Colicos, Karsh, King Edward VII, King George V, LORNE GREENE, mailman, music, Prince Albert, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Scotty, Spock, St. Pancras Station, stamps, Star Trek, Starship Enterprise, War Tax, William Shatner, Wood Burning kit, World War 1 on May 14, 2016 by segarini

This week Canada Post released a series of Original Series ‘Star Trek’ postage stamps featuring Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty. Kirk, of course, was played by the human punchline and proudly Canadian William Shatner and his enemy in real life James Doohan, also Canadian, was Scotty.

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Doug Thompson: HAL BLAINE – DANCE TO THE DRUMMER MAN!

Posted in Opinion with tags Art Garfunkel. Roy Halee, Benny Benjamin, Bill Drake, Bob Segarini, Bobby Darin, Charlie Watts, Cherry Cola's, D.J. Fontana, Dave Clark, DBAWIS, Denny Tedesco, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Ginger Baker, Hal Blaine, Jay & The Americans, John Bonham, John Lennon, Karen Carpenter, Keith Moon, Larry Evoy, LORNE GREENE, Motown, music, Neil Diamond, Neil Peart, Paul Simon, Phil Collins, Phil Spector, Records, Ringo Starr, Roy Orbison, Sheila E, Stewart Copeland, Terry Melcher., The Byrds, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Roe, Tommy Tedesco on February 16, 2015 by segarini

My last blog on January 26^th on “The Wrecking Crew” documentary went through the roof in terms of readership, so Boss Segarini tells me. I think that’s mainly because Denny Tedesco, the Director of the documentary about the session musicians of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, re-posted it to his list of contacts.

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DOUG THOMPSON: CONFESSIONS OF A PROFESSIONAL ROCK AND ROLL INTERVIEWER – BITS AND PIECES, ODDS AND SODS AND WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE WHILE YOU’RE AT IT

Posted in Opinion with tags ABBA, David Lee Roth, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Eddie Lawrence, Hits in foreign languages, Kyu Sakamoto, Lesley Gore, Linda Ronstadt, LORNE GREENE, marvin gaye, music, music videos, NENA, Records, THE ALARM, The Beatles, The HOLLIES, THE TEMPTATIONS on October 14, 2013 by segarini

OK, this is as good a place as any to admit this – I’m probably as close to being a ‘hoarder’ as you can get without actually being featured on the TV show. No, I don’t have piles of decades old newspapers and I can actually walk through my entire house without following a prescribed path through all the debris. My so called ‘hoarding’ is specifically related to materials from my 40+ years in the radio/advertising/interviewing/television industries.