Monthly Archives: June 2021

Ray Davies of The Kinks. Seeing Ray at Winspear, row 1, was a privilege. He played all their hits. I grew up in Winnipeg going to high school dances seeing Chad (“Shakin’ All Over”) before he left and the band … Continue reading →

First album I ever heard in stereo in the mid-’50s. Very impressive then and now still. First album I ever bought (at the height of the Twist dance craze). By Joey Dee and the Starliters live. First album by The … Continue reading →

From my large retro spoken word collection on LP, cassette, and CD. The above are clean and impossible to find on the Internet in such condition if one can find them at all.

Great readers, stories, and poems.

(with provenance)

(signed Ross books are very rare; this is the only one of this one out there) is this collection of Depression stories. I anthologized a few of them in my high school English textbooks.

Richler’s best. And the movie adaptation is very well-done and worth a boo. One of the best Canadian movies ever made.

(A rare signed pb ed.)