Old Familiar Tunes

October 21, 1967 (1 week) A peculiar thing has been happening over the past few days in the lead up to writing this review: I keep getting t...

October 14, 1967 (1 week) The rise of The Monkees ushered in a healthy period for American pop. (I was going to say 'golden age' but...

October 7, 1967 (1 week) I first heard the name 'Lulu' back in 1987 when she turned up as the replacement for Julie Walters in the n...

September 30, 1967 (1 week) As a music nerd I've long been aware of the name Alex Chilton. He is adored by music critics, grumpy guys wh...

September 23, 1967 (1 week) Sing with your eyes closed if you must but know that it doesn't make what you're doing any more profound...

September 16, 1967 (1 week) A while back I blogged about Bobby Freeman's rather nice if somewhat underwhelming version of "Do You ...

September 2, 1967 (1 week) I've been complaining a lot about the rapid turnover of number ones on the RPM chart — believe me, we're ...

August 26, 1967 (2 weeks) For the very first time, I have had the "opportunity" to blog about a single that I've already writt...

August 19, 1967 (1 week) It is the summer of 1967 and thousands of young people from all over North America have recently purchased copies o...

August 12, 1967 (1 week) My associate Aidan Curran has a most fascinating theory involving "A Whiter Shade of Pale": he considers...

July 29, 1967 (2 weeks) There's an AI-assisted version of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" on YouTube. It wasn't w...

July 22, 1967 (1 week) As I have said repeatedly in this space, Canadians didn't seem to take to Motown the way their neighbours to the ...

July 15, 1967 (1 week) It is said that "Windy" was initially supposed to be about a man. Songwriter Ruthann Friedman has said as m...