My Cheapo gaffe friend (see earlier post) has a young nephew also given to superfluous utterance. His grandmother once told him that her mum...

"Wandering around Soho, it's quite possible you may stumble into the aptly named Cheapo Cheapo Records. A belter of a tiny shop fou...

For anyone who is reading this near the time it's being written (12 January 2010) a four-part radio series about Curtis Mayfield, A Man...

I was there when this concert, taking in all the Leiber and Stoller classics, and billed as something like "the indoor event of the ye...

Staying in Brill mode (see previous post), thanks to the magic of the internet I have just been listening to a recording I haven't heard...

New York State of Mind Charted in Full There has been a gap in the market for a book focusing on the Brill Building songwriters and the ...

This is the biography of one of the great doo wop groups who, as Logan Pearsall Smith said of Edmund Waller, floated to immortality on the...

pismotality (51/M/London, England) The piece about the Letter, from 1st October 2000, is the last printout I have from the Doo Wop Shop boar...

pismotality (42/M/London, England) The Medallions' The Letter is one I'm also tempted to put in the pantheon. More than most oth...

pismotality (42/M/London, England) (continued) In the original posting yesterday I started by remembering some important records in my ...

pismotality (42/M/London, England) (continued) Looking for an echo, an answer to our sound, A place to be in harmony, A place we aIm...

pismotality (42/M/London, England) Well, it's a new day and I'm struggling manfully on, trying to make good my second cyberspace los...