Allan Sherman, a pudgy TV game show producer, dominated the pre-Beatles record charts with a string of hit singles and albums. His blend of post-Borscht Belt hu...
In 1969, as his most famous song, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’”, was dominating pop charts, Fred Neil (1936-2001) was working overtime to remove himself from the public...
Like a much-needed vaccine of good-time dance music during the darkest days of 1968, Archie Bell's "Tighten Up" shot out of Houston like a NASA rocket. America ...
Sonny Curtis threw down a musical gauntlet known as “I Fought The Law” in 1958 and a legion of rock ‘n’ rollers have picked it up since, from the Bobby Fuller F...
Signed to Apple with direct hands-on help from all of the Beatles, particularly Paul (who gave them “Come and Get It”) and George (who co-produced their 3rd al...
With the death of Tom Finn last month, all four original members (Finn, Michael Brown, George Cameron, Steve Martin Caro) of The Left Banke are gone. Baroque po...
Joni Mitchell was a “folk singer” for two years, but she has been an artistic badass for more than half a century since then. Her pioneering work and enduring i...
Scott Schinder has written about music and popular culture for various publications, including Creem, Billboard, Time Out New York, Rolling Stone, New Musical Express and Melody Maker. He's also written several music-related books and liner notes for numerous CD reissues and box sets and has contributed essays and other pieces to other books, including all six editions of The Trouser Press Record Guide.
