Reading between the Grooves

Like yesterday’s post, today’s selection was released twice on the Smash label; however, only one was issued as a single. Not be confused w...

Occasionally, when I’ve looked at specific labels, I discover that a single song was released a number of times by different artists. Such ...

He was “The Godfather of Soul,” “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” and one of several musicians who had records that couldn’t be pl...

Our next selection brings back a lot of memories as Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” was the first song I learned to play on the guitar. B...

The Left Banke’s lush instrumentation was a nice change of pace in the midst of guitar based recordings of the mid 1960s. Their first hit o...

Our fourth week label feature remembers Mercury Records’ subsidiary Smash, which was formed in 1961. While numerous country artists recorde...

While some of the missed necrology from 2014 was just because I didn’t get around to authoring a post at the time, I completely missed other...