Taco Ockerse, otherwise known as just Taco, was the ultimate throwback singer of the 1980s. He took a 55-year-old song, Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’…
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Musings on songs, music, memories
Musings on songs, music, memories
Taco Ockerse, otherwise known as just Taco, was the ultimate throwback singer of the 1980s. He took a 55-year-old song, Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’…
In 1998, R.E.M. released Up, their first album without drummer Bill Berry. On the album was an electronic track called “Hope” that had a…
When I got tickets for my 14-year-old daughter to see Jeff Lynne’s ELO in July, I asked my older daughter, who’s 16, who…