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

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Doobie Brothers: Black Water

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One of the best known Doobie Brothers’ tunes, “Black Water,” was actually a repeat. It was originally issued early 1974 as a flipside to “A...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Beatles: I've Just Seen A Face

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One of my favorite Beatles tunes turns up today as my Wooden Wednesday selection. Written by Paul McCartney, but credited to both Paul and ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Episode 1100: Junior Brown: Surf Medley

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Today’s post marks our 1,100th edition of this blog and before we get into the nitty gritty of the numbers thus far, we’ll head to today’s m...
Monday, January 28, 2013

David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group: This Is Not America

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Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to watch the motion picture “The Falcon and the Snowman.” I don’t know why I missed this movie in 1...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Ariola Records: Winning Man

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Our final Ariola America artist is a band that is near and dear to my heart as they gave me a guitar at a concert in January 1995. Today’s ...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Ariola Recods: Time Will Bring You Love

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Although they have never had a hit record since their inception in the late 1960s, the Sons of Champlin have been a mainstay in the music bu...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Ariola Records: Flyin'

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From Vancouver, British Columbia, Prism was one of those bands that had only a modicum of followers in the US, but were significantly more p...
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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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