by Kevin Burton When there is a Dave Barry book on your front porch, you’re having a good day. Every writerly thing in me, now wants to write, “nothing else matters.” But we both know that isn’t entirely true. Nothing else? Tell you what though Sugarbear, nothing else matters for the next …
Category Archives: 1980s
Cincinnati Baseball Icon Pete Rose Dead At 83
by Kevin Burton This is a story about baseball cards and the souls of men. Or maybe it’s about crime and punishment and fleeting youth. Or maybe this is a Joni Mitchell song in the making; I’ve looked at Pete Rose from both sides now, from glory and shame and still somehow …
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I Can Still Feel That Mexican Embrace
by Kevin Burton There is a cove that I visit, a path where I meander, to which no one on earth can follow. I don’t go often, but when I go, I go down deep. Out of despair from not being able to break into journalism, I decided at 24 to go …
American Slang Phrases Through The Decades
by Dictionary Scoop Have you listened to teenagers talk lately? Their vocabulary is full of words we don’t quite understand. But come on, we did it too: every decade has had its own set of slang words and expressions. Today, we look back at ten slang words and expressions that have defined each decade from …
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Imperfect Tens: Hits Dionne Warwick Hated
by Kevin Burton The artist hated them, I loved them and so did millions of others. From the 60s genius of legendary songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and the 80s (post-70s really) brilliance of the Bee Gees, came two smash hits for Dionne Warwick. Both songs went to number 10 …
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Bonnie Raitt Supports A Free Press, Journalism
by Kevin Burton I love Bonnie Raitt more this week than I did before, and that’s saying something. Raitt announced Monday that proceeds from her Sept. 23 concert in Carmel By The Sea, California, will go to support investigative journalism and protect a free press. “Special guest Roy Rogers will support the …
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I Love A Rainy Night And I Like Eddie Rabbitt
by Kevin Burton If you’re like most people, when you think of a nice day, you’re thinking about picnic weather, right? Well I’m not like most people. My nice days have a soundtrack to them. I am a son of the Midwest. What you call spring and summer, I call tornado season. …
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Facts You Might Not Know About M*A*S*H
by Interestingfacts.com From its premiere on CBS in Sept. 1972 through its historic series finale watched by more than 106 million Americans in Feb. 1983, M*A*S*H changed television forever. The series followed the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War of the early 1950s and seamlessly blended comedy and drama like never before. …
The Story Behind “Sultans Of Swing”
by Kevin Burton It turns out there really was a band called Sultans Of Swing that inspired the great 1978 Dire Straits hit. “Sultans Of Swing” is one of those tunes that stops you in your tracks. It just exudes cool. We tell its story, evoking a musical proverb from “Take It …
Raised On Radio: Rush Makes A Statement
by Kevin Burton The Band Rush made a musical comment on the state of radio in 1980’s “The Spirit of Radio.” It took me more than 40 years to get wind of it. Though they made reference to the lyrics of two of my heroes, Simon and Garfunkel, in the song, they didn’t …
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