Category Archives: cool

SANTA BABY – Eartha Kitt

December 18, 2011 – 7:02 am
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SUNNY by Bobby Hebb

October 9, 2011 – 2:17 pm

Bobby Hebb’s SUNNY was a massive hit during the summer of 1966. I sang it to a beautiful blonde 13 year-old girl on a Cape Cod beach. We stood barefoot in the sand. Sally had blonde hair. The sun was setting into the sea. It was the last week of August. Tomorrow the weekly vacationeers [...]

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Steve McQueen – How Cool

July 24, 2011 – 3:33 pm

Steve McQueen was the coolest movie star ever. Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood are living icons, but Steve was the champion of cool. Dead or alive. As a child my brothers, sisters, and I attended Our Lady of the Foothills south of Boston. The parochial grammar school heavily tressed the Four Rs of reading, ‘riting, [...]

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SOMEBODY TO LOVE – The Great Society

July 22, 2011 – 11:32 am
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How Hot Was It?

July 19, 2011 – 6:19 pm

“How hot was it?” Ed McMahon. “It was so hot, the musicians were snorting ice cubes.” Johnny Carson The master.

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