Reading between the Grooves

One man's view of music - past, present, and future.
A look at recordings and music from many genres
from the Mad Doctor of Musical Mayhem

Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Tubes: Talk To You Later

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Before they became a household name (sort of), The Tubes had already released five studio albums and a compilation of their better known (so...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Pretenders: Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)

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Usually, I have my week pretty well planned out in advance for what I plan to feature; however, periodically yesterday I would wrack my brai...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Firm: Radioactive

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I can hear it already, there will be those muttering under their breath – “Is he crazy? The Firm had more than one hit besides their song ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Seth Lakeman: Hearts & Minds

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For today’s Traditional Tuesday selection, how about a little folk music with attitude? Multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman released his l...
Monday, April 25, 2011

David Bowie & David Gilmour: Arnold Layne

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I got thinking about early Pink Floyd this weekend because I stumbled upon a comedic video on YouTube that satirized the late Syd Barrett –...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Don Francisco: He's Alive

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Happy Easter everyone! To celebrate the most important holiday in Christendom, I thought I would feature a song about the resurrection. In...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Mott The Hoople: All The Way To Memphis

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As always on Saturday we feature a bubbling under hit and today we take you back to the fall of 1973 and the opening cut from Mott the Hoopl...
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Jim Owston
Associate Provost and Professor of Mass Communication at Alderson Broaddus University and an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University.

Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Southern New Hampshire University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University.

Dissertation on institutional rebranding (see newriver.net) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration.

Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio "Pick the Hits" competitions from 1983 through 1987. Each competition had 31 winners. Placed 2nd (1st among radio participants), 6th, 10th (twice), and 21st in the five competitions.

Awarded 14 gold & platinum records and an international sales award from various record companies. Winner of 30 Public Relations awards.
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