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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon

Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of houses, never home Church full of singing, out of tune Everyone’s gone to the moon – Jonathan King, 1965 One of my favorite all-time songs of the ’60′s was Jonathan King’s Everyone’s Gone to the Moon. It peaked at #17 in 1965. In fact I liked [...]

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A Fond Goodbye to Mike Smith of the DC5

Mike Smith, the voice and personality of the Dave Clark 5, died of pneumonia yesterday in a London hospital just 12 days before his band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. As I’ve said in a previous posting the Dave Clark 5 was one of the most under-rated bands [...]

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