Mirror Ball Man
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I've been meaning to write this post for weeks, since it's about my album of the summer, so please forgive my tardiness...
I am a child of the AM Gold generation. Dating myself, I know. But my junior high school years - formative ones for any music fan - coincided with the last heyday of AM Top 40 radio in the early 1970s. That was before the freeform FM rock format took much of the audience and disco took the rest, dividing radio listeners for decades. A quaint and ancient era to today's yutes, I know. But glory days too, when you might hear the brain-frying guitar of the new Creedence for the first time back-to-back with Glad
Relatively often one would become a national ear worm, the song of the summer blasting from every transistor at the beach, every car radio. There are fifty or a hundred songs from that era planted so deeply in my brain they are part of me for better and worse. I am stuck in the middle with them, just like this guy ---->
Mirror Ball Man
The Hot Bid - Things you didn't know you wanted-while there's still time to bid.