Vinyl Voyage Radio

Join us today at 2 pm for the first Song of the Week Anthology . We just wrapped up 10 weeks of "Song of the Week."  On this show, we will play all 10 songs as we head into week #11. This show will feature our songs from Over the Rhine, the Allman Brothers, Postmodern Jukebox, The Beatles and several more. You can hear this episode at 2 pm (Central) Sunday July 23 and July 30, 2017.  Plus, Wednesday, 3 pm (Central) July 26 and August 3, 2017 You can also listen on-demand via Mixcloud .

I love finding old albums. I recently wrote about the 15 Everly Hits album that I picked up. ("Let It Be Me" is the Song of the Week) It just so happens that this Everly Brothers album was owned by Bea Wagner. She wrote her name on the back of the album, first in pen then in a large black marker.  When people wrote their names on albums it usually meant something. It was the marking of territory; the declaration of fandom. I am sure she had her favorite brother; I wonder who it was? She bought the album for $2.88 at F.W. Woolworth. The price tag is still there. If anyone knows a Bea Wagner, let her know that her album is in good hands. Thanks Bea. Here is "Let It be Me" from Bea's album being played.

I realized recently that I had very little Everly Brothers in the Vinyl Voyage library. After all, I could only name a few songs of theirs off the top of my head.  So it didn't seem to me to be much of a deficit.  I had "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Bye Bye Love" and "All I Have to Do Is Dream." What else was I missing? Two days ago, I stumbled upon a 1963 greatest hits album of the Everly Brothers entitled, 15 Everly Hits . I gave the album a nice cleaning and put it on the turntable. Almost immediately, I recognized that my library was woefully deficient. The Everly Brothers had amazing vocal harmonies, and reminded me of a Simon and Garfunkel prototype, singing folk infused, acoustic guitar tunes before it was a thing some 10 years later. Indeed, Paul Simon often referred to the Everly Brothers as his "heroes." "Wake Up Little Susie," of course, is pure rock and roll. Risque, no doubt for the times, but hitting on the the...