Lloyd Cole and the Commotions had an interesting but short career during the 1980's. Starting out with the album 'Rattlesnakes' ...

One of the problems of shopping online is that it's hard to find something new. You'll always use familiar keywords, and there isn...

These days, Nancy Marano is best known as a jazz singer, but back in the late 1960's, she recorded a few singles on the Columbia label, ...

Things tend to get confusing sometimes, in the pop world. For instance, if I categorize this single under the name Shannon , this single wil...

Some singles are on my wantlist, just waiting to pop up for a reasonable price. In the absence of record fairs - Lord knows when I will fina...

Carlos Eduardo Teixeira Mendes was born on May 23, 1947 in Lisbon. He started his singing career in the 1960's, representing Portugal a...

There's a special place in my record collection for The The, one of those British bands that managed to 'get to me' at a very ea...

Just like ' Love is a lonely harbour ', 'Mothers little soldier' is a single taken from Fra Lippo Lippi's 1989 album ...

I do read the comments on this blog, although there aren't that many. My recent entry about Sergio Endrigo's ' Marianne ' ...

This single by Tears for fears is an interesting one: it was released in April 1986 in the USA, after the 'Songs from the big chair...

I could buy a lot of singles by Sade just for the artwork. There have been a lot of different sleeves in different territories, and they u...

Evanescence's exercise of fusing their hardrock tracks with a symphonic orchestra on the album 'Synthesis' has created one of ...

During holidays I make a point of visiting local record shops, which this year was a bit of a challenge since the small town of Dahn in Ge...

You might wonder why I bought this single, when I've already got a copy of Mike Oldfield's Five miles out . The answer is quite si...

George McCurn was born on January 21, 1920 in Chicago. He was a bass singer who started off singing gospel and switched to pop in the Sixt...

Inge Brück was born on October 12, 1936 in Mannheim (Germany). She represented Germany during the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with ...

Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh from Heaven 17 didn't have enough work on their hands, so they devoted part of their time to the '...

'Tubular bells' remains Mike Oldfield's best known piece of work, even if it was the first album he ever recorded. Since its r...

Rock 'n' roll can be exciting, as I found out quite early on, when I got the album The best of the top 40 of the year in the summ...

Sergio Endrigo was born in Pola, Istria (Italy) on June 15, 1933 and started his career in music in the early 1960's. After releasing ...