Way Back 2025

Brief Topics: Jones'
"Help," Elliot's "Dream,"
Brewer's "Hoop"

Two pleasant 1960s pop standards offset the action and violence in current box office hit The Accountant 2: "Help Yourself" by Tom Jones and "Dream a Little Dream of Me" by Mama Cass Elliot (with The Mamas and the Papas billed as the backing group). And did I actually hear "The Hula Hoop Song" by hip-swirling late '50s pop culture diva Teresa Brewer on American Idol? On an audition segment where the contestant was more interested in hooping than ... MORE ››

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The Merry-Go-Round

Southern Cal's Merry-Go-Round shows up on the Top 100 Garage Band Hits 1963-1969! Check out the list of raw, rocking groups and solo singers ... MORE ››

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TRINI LOPEZ

Trini Lopez

What do you get when you take a rockin', rollin' Tex-Mex singer from Dallas and transplant him into a trendy Los Angeles nightclub frequented by Hollywood celebrities? In the case of Trini Lopez, the result was a nightly, crowd-pleasing party atmosphere in the best spot to catch the attention of one of the most famous people in show business. Just being affiliated with Frank Sinatra gave Lopez enough clout to boost him to a million-selling pleateau, though who'd have figured the two would become close friends and eventually hang out regularly as neighbors in Southern California's desert oasis? Christened Trinidad Lopez III in 1937, he grew up in the Little Mexico neighborhood a couple of miles north of downtown Dallas. His father, Trinidad II, had worked as a singer when he ... MORE ››



Vinyl Attack Joe and Eddie

There's a Meetin'
Here Tonite
♦ by Joe and Eddie

Anyone who has ever heard Joe and Eddie on the radio is familiar with "There's a Meetin' Here Tonite," a lively adaptation of a popular spiritual from the early part of the 20th century and the only one of their recordings to receive notable airplay. Any attempt to categorize the southern-born, raised-in-Berkeley duo as a gospel act would be erroneous; singing the ... MORE ››