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Getting It Backwards

S’tel erolpxe eht yrotsih fo sdrawkcab gniksam!

With Friends Like That…

Sometimes a friend is made — in more ways than one.

Music for Jetpacks and Aquacopters

In helping invent the music of the future, Raymond Scott also helped invent the future of music.

The Lost Lamb

Not even his co-workers knew that old Joe Lamb was a great American artist.

The Profundo-est of Basses

There never was another career like Thurl Ravenscroft’s. Or a voice.

The Missing Link Between the Beatles and Monty Python

You could say the Bonzos “duchamped” at the bit to bring dada to pop music… but everyone would make fun of you if you did.

Yeah, If You Go Down to Athens, G-A

During the 1980s, all pop roads led to Athens.

The Importance of Being HEE HAW

It brought “gloom, despair and misery on me” and millions of other tv viewers… and we loved it.

The King and His Heirs

He was a guitarist’s guitarist, and his grandchildren have followed in his wake.

Sing Long and Prosper

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and other STAR TREK actors went boldly where no science fiction icons had gone before — into America’s record bins.