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, May 31, 2014

Reprise Records: Sinner Man

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Every once and a while, a visitor of this blog contributes to the content. Earlier this week, Dennis Harris asked if I would feature Trini ...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Reprise Records: Midnight At The Oasis

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Last week, we started a new feature: Feminine Fridays in honor of the female voice. As we spotlight Reprise Records this week, there were ...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Reprise Records: Old Man

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Day five of our tribute to Reprise Records provides a Thirty Something Thursday selection from Neil Young. Released in 1972 from his #1 alb...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Reprise Records: The Lonely Surfer

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Day Four of our look at Reprise Records and last week we introduced a new category, “Wordless Wednesday.” I was wracking my brain about an ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Reprise Records: A Kinks' Twofer

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It’s time for Twofer Tuesday and keeping in our theme with our Fourth Week Label Feature on Reprise Records, I had to narrow down which one ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Reprise Records: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town

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It’s Memorial Day in America and a time when we honor those who gave all for the cause of freedom. By extension of thought, we also recogni...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Reprise Records: My Sunday Feeling

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As I’ve featured a number of classic independent and smaller subsidiary labels in the past, I was in a quandary in trying to come up with a ...
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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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