Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
The Marvelettes
This year I decided to periodically spotlight some other
musical artists whom I like for one reason or another. Admittedly, I’m doing
this at least in part because #ILikeMakingLists (see below). I decided to start
with the Marvelettes so I could also pay belated tribute to Wanda Young, who died
last December. While they were never as commercially successful as The
Supremes or Martha & The Vandellas, they did have the distinction of having
Motown’s first #1 hit on the Hot 100 with “Please Mr. Postman” in 1961. That
song, along with other early singles such as “Beechwood 4-5789”, put them
squarely in the mold of that era’s other “girl groups”, such as The Ronettes,
The Shirelles, and The Chiffons. Their sound did evolve later in the decade,
when they hit the top 20 with hits such as “Don’t Mess With Bill” and “My Baby
Must Be A Magician.”
Favorite songs:
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead
Strange I Know
Beechwood 4-5789
When You’re Young And In Love
My Baby Must Be A Magician
Please Mr. Postman
Don’t Mess With Bill
Playboy
Sunday, January 30, 2022
The only outrage in the Hall of Fame voting? How many people voted for Bonds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/28/barry-bonds-roger-clemens-steroids-hall-fame/
John Feinstein’s best column ever, as he totally demolishes
all of the justifications advanced for enshrining Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens
in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
“Baseball does
have a character clause on its ballot — unlike, for example, the NFL. If MLB
and the Baseball Hall of Fame wanted to remove that clause, they could, but
they choose not to do so, for good reason. A Hall of Fame should be about more
than numbers; it should be about what a player — or manager or owner or
commissioner — meant to the history of the game.”
“A Hall of Fame — in any sport — is supposed to be about
what is good in that game. It goes beyond numbers. … [T]he steroid cheats
damaged the game.”