We look back with gratitude to a chatroom in the internet that was unique; The AOL Music Oldies Room. And we fondly remember the Oldies in this room who have…
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The Blue Aeroplanes – Jacket Hangs
I get a lot of my inspiration for Mystery Lyrics from the “Your mix of the week” playlist on Spotify, including, more often than not, bands I am unfamiliar with or indeed have never heard of before. Todays choice is one of these bands… Today we are looking for an English rock band from Bristol,…Read More
The Rainbirds
The Rainbirds are a Post “New Wave” Rock Band from Germany who had a massive hit in their home country in 1987 called “Blueprint”. In spite of two excellent albums released in the mid eighties they were unable to repeat the success of Blueprint and are somewhat wrongly considered a “One Hit Wonder” The end…Read More
Bridget Kearney – Won’t Let You Down
This week on the turntable is the new album from Bridget Kearney, who promises not to let us down. Bridget is probably better known to most of us as bassist with the soul-pop combo Lake Street Dive, where she tends to stay more in the background. Now she has decided to move into the limelight…Read More
Remembering Rick Parfitt
2016 is staying true to itself right through to the bitter end. On Christmas Eve Rick Parfitt of Status Quo passed away at the age of 68 due to an infection incurred after an operation to his shoulder. It was somewhat ironic that he should pass away in this manner after surviving three heart attacks.…Read More
My Top Contemporary Female Singers: Jessy Martens
Having the luck to live on the European continent, I get to hear a lot of artists that the Brits and Americans under us are not familiar with. German based Jessy Martens is just one of these artists to hit the European Blues scene like a whirlwind. And she is certainly a force of nature…Read More
My Top Contemporary Female Singers: Zaz
Over the next few weeks I will be presenting my favorite contemporary female artists. As self-professed Oldies we tend to get stuck in a rut and ignore the fact that even in the twenty-first century there is still lots of good music around. Music that we tend not to hear, as it is not radio…Read More
So, you think you’re a roomie?
Once upon a time there was a room. Not a real room, this was not in any house or flat; it was a virtual room. A place in the internet where like minded people could meet and chat about oldies music and any other things that leapt to mind. They were good days. so good…Read More
Roger Chapman – Zipper
Roger Chapman. I like to think back to a time a couple of decades ago, when Video Rental Stores started lending out CDs when they were a relatively new feature on the music market. One of the many I borrowed and recorded on my cassette recorder was todays choice, an excellent album, but in the…Read More