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

Monday, October 31, 2011

Outlaws: (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

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While several artists recorded “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” in the year following the penning of the song by Stan Jones in 1948, Vaughan Monr...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Richard Thompson: Season Of The Witch

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For Saturday’s bubbling under hit, there are just so many versions of the Donovan song “Season of the Witch,” I had a hard time choosing whi...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Bobby (Boris) Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers

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It’s the better late than never post for today, as I finally get my Friday Flipside post up and in order. Today’s flip is by Bobby “Boris” ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Edgar Winter Group: Frankenstein

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Being that it is TV Thursday and we are featuring Halloween themed songs this week, here is another song featured in a TV commercial, the Ed...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

John Zacherle: Dinner With Drac

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Well it appears that I have taken an extended vacation and I apologize for that. My real job has kept me hopping and last week I was out of...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Bill Champlin: In The Heat Of The Night

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Bill Champlin of San Francisco has been singing for decades with the band the Sons of Champlin and later as Terry Kath’s replacement in Chic...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Bert Jansch: Black Waterside

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Last Wednesday, the world lost one of the great acoustic guitarists to cancer at age 67. I first heard of Bert Jansch from the recordings h...
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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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