Groovy Friday – What Is It Good For?
It’s Friday! Edwin Starr secured his place in pop music history with his #1 1970 anti-Vietnam War hit “War.” He started his musical career in Cleveland fronting his own Doo-Wop Group, The...
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Groovy Friday – Shake, Shake, Shake
It’s Friday! I know nothing about this clip except that it’s groovy and it comes from the Greek film “Teddy Boy Agapi Mou.” In the five years I’ve been doing “Groovy Friday,”...
Groovy Friday – Ten Little Indians…and More!
It’s Friday! Let’s take the nasty taste of last week’s prank out of your mouth with some spicy Bollywood fare. This is from the film “Gumnaam." If Wikipedia is to be believed (and we...
Groovy Friday – Meiä Veera
It's Friday! Meet Erkki Liikanen (pronounced Ree-kee Lik-on,) Finland’s greatest musician, here performing his biggest hit, Meiä Veera (My Cauliflower.) Discovered while eating a herring sundae...
Groovy Friday – Bon Jour Bucharest!
It’s Friday! Not much dancing this week, but groovy just the same. There’s precious little about Nancy Holloway on the internet. An American, born and raised in Cleveland, she found her...
Groovy Friday – Triple Your Pleasure
It’s Friday! Meet The Kim Sisters. Actually, only two are sisters. The third is their cousin. Close enough. Their story is fascinating, but I’ll just hit the high spots here. They sang American...
Groovy Friday – Let’s take a ride!
It’s Friday! Here’s Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. If you’re not familiar with the enormous influence Herb Alpert had on the music industry in the latter half of the twentieth...
Groovy Friday – Fire in Rio with Sacha Distel
C’est Vendredi! Sacha Distel wants to be your valentine and who are you to say no? Just look at him. Il est tres beau, non? The man was romantically involved with Brigitte Bardot for a couple of...
Groovy Friday: Tennessee Groovy Ford
It’s Friday with Cousin Ernie! I love Ernie Ford. His bass/baritone voice is so sleek. Absolutely unmistakable. Here he is performing his signature song “Sixteen Tons.” But wait! ...
Groovy Friday – The Wham of Sam
It’s Friday! Last week I introduced you to Juliette and the Good Company. Despite the ethnically diverse group of unknown dancers in that clip, I heard from many that it was one of the...