Vinyl Record Lovers Newsletter.

As a Teenager it was truly a special time in my life growing up when songs like "Tears on My Pillow" was on the charts.

The "Little Anthony & The Imperials" song is now online for your review.

Read the story how it all began with this one great song. The slow beginning, the split-up, the return and the live video will kick start all those great memorable moments from the past. Read more...

I was in Crown Point, Indiana recently attending my grandson's baseball tournament and as I entered the city's "Sportsplex" baseball area, I was amazed at what I saw.

A 25' high Kissing Couple statue titled "Embracing Peace" by Artist Seward Johnson was positioned at the entrance to the complex.

The statue recreates the famous embrace between a sailor and a nurse celebrating the end of World War II in 1945 in the LIFE Magazine photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

The statue was in Times Square in 2015 for the 60th anniversary of V-J Day and is on loan to the city of Crown Point until later this year.  The story and photo of the original Kissing Couple is available for review in the October, 2016 newsletter. (Opens in new window)

One of the forefathers of Rock'nRoll would have turned 93 on July 6, 2018.

The hoopla surrounding the fiftieth anniversary of rock 'n' roll in 2004 didn't quite ring true.

Yes, Elvis made his first record in 1954, but Bill Haley, who died neglected and alone on the Mexican border thirty-seven years ago on the 9th of February, went to his grave wondering why he'd been written out of the story.

True, the Pennsylvania polka bars where Bill Haley stumbled across his music didn't have the eye candy appeal of Memphis after dark, and yes Bill Haley was almost middle-aged and had a goofy little kiss curl, but he was in the charts with rock 'n' roll as early as 1953 with "Crazy Man, Crazy." So yes, his followers claim to first might be legit, and he'd figured it out several years before that.

In 1981 the world's first Bill Haley box, then with 5 vinyl LPs, was released by Bear Family records and is now a sought-after collector's item. Not to worry though, a 5-CD LP-sized box set with 100-page hardcover book is available from Amazon via Vinyl Record Memories. (opens in new window)

The western campfire songs may live forever, but in the early '60s it had already suffered a decline.

The singing cowboys had all but disappeared from the silver screen, and the days when real western attire for country artists would soon be over.

Eddy Arnold had a number one hit in 1955 with one of his recordings of "Cattle Call." Forty years later, Arnold joins 13-year-old Texan LeAnn Rimes on a version of "The Cattle Call" that remains a haunting vinyl record memory with a real yodel rather than the falsetto vocal treatment it often received in the past. Those cows would have loved this version. Read more..