would love to see the “step back” series reupped. all the 80’s ones seem dead, and step back to 1979 seems gone too. You do amazing work putting these lists and series together. thank you for all your hard work and dedication :)
It’s been years since I checked out a music blog. Your site has convinced me to become a regular reader again. I’ll be back! Thanks for all the hard work – you clearly love what you do here.
I don’t know if you take requests, and I do hope this isn’t insulting (it’s clear from how many amazing compilations you’re created that you don’t require suggestions), but I went back a few years and couldn’t find any collections with the theme “rain.” Am I just missing it/them? If not…well, I just moved from SoCal to the Pacific Northwest and I could surely use a Major Dude rain compilation to help me out with the weather shock…
@halfhearteddude
Well, this cold and rainy day just got a bit brighter! Take your time, obviously—I’m sure it’ll be more than worth the wait. Thanks, friend!
I really like your site and am an especially big fan of your monthly In Memoriam tributes. You are very thorough and I appreciate that. I have just started a new blog and am not sure of the etiquette but, I would like to include you in my blogroll and occasionally direct folks to check you out. Is that OK? My Site is called InfiniteJones,com , take a look if you want.
Thanks.
Until this AM I had never even HEARD of Mieko Hirota. Now, thanks to your Blog, I can see that she was the first artist to record Bobby Hebb’s ‘Sunny’. This is of special note to me, since I run a fan Blog for an artist who began her recording career in 1969, at the age of just seventeen, with a version of that – a version that I note in the relevant post (‘The Originals Vol. 39’, dated August 6th, 2010) is omitted – Valérie Čižmárová. It is therefore trebly strange that I should have happened to have been looking into the career of an Italian singer who appeared in Bulgaria who was born in 1952 (Paola Battista) and in the process of that came across Mieko Hirota…who appeared alongside Salena Jones…with Valérie Čižmárová’s birthday of 29th January! Maybe we could do a link exchange (for both ‘Bananas For Breakfast’ and ‘Girls Of The Golden East’). It increasingly occurs to me that we know just a tiny fraction of the world of Pop Music. Maybe my two Blogs will prove a useful source of information to ‘Any Major Dude With Half A Heart’ (love the memorable name!)…like yours has just done for mine!
What a great site! I’m a bit of a buff and can recognise the love and scholarship that has gone into this site.
Well done.
Could you pls re-up Any Major Soul 1960-63? Tks in advance!
It’s up now.
Tks a lot! Now I have your complete Soul-Collection (excluding Xmas things).
I love this site very much. Always great curation on the topic and obviously well informed.
Your efforts are appreciated.
Great stuff all around, I appreciate it!
Cool you re-up the Flute in pop series?
love your site, how about a tribute mix of all Allen Toussaint? would love to hear your take on that…thanks for the music adn the history
Oh, I’ve played with the thought. He will get four tribute tracks on the In Memoriam on Thursday.
would love to see the “step back” series reupped. all the 80’s ones seem dead, and step back to 1979 seems gone too. You do amazing work putting these lists and series together. thank you for all your hard work and dedication :)
The series has been supplanted by the Life in Vinyl series, which covers the same ground, though only as of 1977: http://www.halfhearteddude.com/category/a-life-in-vinyl/
It’s been years since I checked out a music blog. Your site has convinced me to become a regular reader again. I’ll be back! Thanks for all the hard work – you clearly love what you do here.
This Year marks the 40th Anniversary of Elvis’s passing. Any plan to review his music in your blog? Looking forward to it.
There’ll have to be something, that’s for sure.
It’s a source of information for us.
http://www.nobodysingsdylanlikedylan.com
I don’t know if you take requests, and I do hope this isn’t insulting (it’s clear from how many amazing compilations you’re created that you don’t require suggestions), but I went back a few years and couldn’t find any collections with the theme “rain.” Am I just missing it/them? If not…well, I just moved from SoCal to the Pacific Northwest and I could surely use a Major Dude rain compilation to help me out with the weather shock…
Oh, what an intriguing idea. I’ll explore it, though I can’t say how long it’ll take before it would run. I’ve done a winter compilation though.
@halfhearteddude
Well, this cold and rainy day just got a bit brighter! Take your time, obviously—I’m sure it’ll be more than worth the wait. Thanks, friend!
I am new to the site and I am really liking what I am seeing right now. I will keep looking at it more. Thanks for publishing it.
I really like your site and am an especially big fan of your monthly In Memoriam tributes. You are very thorough and I appreciate that. I have just started a new blog and am not sure of the etiquette but, I would like to include you in my blogroll and occasionally direct folks to check you out. Is that OK? My Site is called InfiniteJones,com , take a look if you want.
Thanks.
Sure we can do an exchange link. I’ve added your link in my list. Good luck with the blog.
Appreciate it. Thanks.
Until this AM I had never even HEARD of Mieko Hirota. Now, thanks to your Blog, I can see that she was the first artist to record Bobby Hebb’s ‘Sunny’. This is of special note to me, since I run a fan Blog for an artist who began her recording career in 1969, at the age of just seventeen, with a version of that – a version that I note in the relevant post (‘The Originals Vol. 39’, dated August 6th, 2010) is omitted – Valérie Čižmárová. It is therefore trebly strange that I should have happened to have been looking into the career of an Italian singer who appeared in Bulgaria who was born in 1952 (Paola Battista) and in the process of that came across Mieko Hirota…who appeared alongside Salena Jones…with Valérie Čižmárová’s birthday of 29th January! Maybe we could do a link exchange (for both ‘Bananas For Breakfast’ and ‘Girls Of The Golden East’). It increasingly occurs to me that we know just a tiny fraction of the world of Pop Music. Maybe my two Blogs will prove a useful source of information to ‘Any Major Dude With Half A Heart’ (love the memorable name!)…like yours has just done for mine!