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, September 30, 2013

The Clash: London Calling

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Last week, I heard The Clash’s “London Calling” used as a promo bed for the season premier of the CBS show “Elementary.” I watched the show...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Parrot Records: Tell Mama

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In 1971, a mass exodus of members of Savoy Brown led to the formation of Foghat and left the band’s founder, Kim Simmonds, the only individu...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Parrot Records: It's Good News Week

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When we began our look at Parrot Records on Sunday, our first selection was Jonathan King’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon.” King returns in ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Fourth Anniversary / Post 1300: Parrot Records: Here Comes The Night

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Today is the fourth anniversary of Reading Between the Grooves as well as being the 1,300th post. For the last several yearly anniversaries...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Parrot Records: House Of The Rising Sun

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Frijid Pink is one of the few American acts signed to Parrot Records, as most of the label’s artists were British Decca acts licensed to its...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Parrot Records: Tell Her No

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While The Zombies released eight singles on the Parrot label, only two charted within the Top 40: 1964's “ She’s Not There ” at #2 and ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Parrot Records: Thunderball

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I hadn’t originally planned the theme from “Thunderball” to be the Tom Jones song I would feature this week, but two recent events inspired ...
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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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