by Kevin Burton Happy 78th birthday to gospel singer Gladys Knight, and all aboard that midnight train! I think we’ve all taken that midnight train. It’s the one you ride when you are forced to leave cherished dreams behind and build a new life. The song “Midnight Train To Georgia” hit number …
Category Archives: 1970s
Rapping To The Ladies, Wishful Thinking
by Kevin Burton I love the Doobie Brothers, but I have a complaint. Let’s engage in a little wishful thinking, shall we? I wish Michael McDonald would enunciate. Wishful thinking is “the attribution of reality to what one wishes to be true or the tenuous justification of what one wants to believe,” according …
Baseball’s 70s Mighty Have Fallen Hard
by Kevin Burton When I was growing up in the 70s these teams were baseball royalty: Cincinnati, Oakland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Of the 40 division titles available in the decade in the old playoff format, those four teams won 22 of them. That was five each for Oakland and Baltimore, six each for …
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