Submit Release April 22, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News Otherworld Cottage s last year awards are now history. They may all be viewed by clicking on the banner on Otherworld Cottage s homepage https://otherworldcottage.com. Harvey Kubernik s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters, published by Otherworld Cottage Industries, contributed to at least three of those awards: Travis Pike s E2 Media Award for his contribution to the Entertainment Industry and Performing Arts, Otherworld Cottage s E2 Media Award for Production and Creative Content Company of the Year its 2020 award for Best Independent Book, DVD, and CD Publishing Company. Harvey wrote the Afterword to Pike s memoire 1964-1974: a Decade of Odd Tales and Wonders (2018), the Foreword to Pike s Changeling s Return, a novel approach to the music, and Pike contributed the last chapter in Kubernik s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters (2020). Now Harvey takes us inside Otherworld Cottage in his multi
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Journalist and Author Harvey Kubernik is not only reporting music industry news, he s making music industry news March 04, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News This Saturday Night, March 6th, PBS-TV will broadcast a television special hosted by famed New York deejay and television personality Murray the K (Kaufman), called It s What s Happening, Baby, featuring performances by Martha & The Vandellas, Dionne Warwick, Herman s Hermits, Cannibal & The Headhunters, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Jackson, The Supremes, The Righteous Brothers, The Four Tops, The Miracles, and Ray Charles. During 1978 Harvey Kubernik co-produced and hosted 50/50, the landmark weekly television music and interview program from Theta Cable in Santa Monica, California broadcast on the milestone Z Channel in Los Angeles and Manhattan Cable in New York.Murray the K was a guest for a full episode. Cynthia Kirk, the music critic of Variety at the time, praised 50/50, and wrote on a par with Th
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(l. to r.): Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson
February 3, 2021, marks the 62nd anniversary of the tragic airplane crash that subsequently became known as “The Day the Music Died,” sadly referenced in Don McLean’s 1971 song, “American Pie.”
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, died along with pilot Roger Peterson.
After a February 2, 1959, “Winter Dance Party” show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly, Valens and Richardson took off from the Mason City, Iowa, airport, in a three-passenger plane that Holly chartered, piloted by Peterson during inclement weather. It crashed into a cornfield just minutes after takeoff.
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Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-SPECTOR-LISTENING:LA]
LOS ANGELES Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thrilling.
Or take “Strange Love,” the Darlene Love-propelled gem that opens with a frolicking schoolyard melody before turning into a galloping riot of string- and percussion-driven weirdness as Love sings of a creeper whose brand of affection is so concerning that she “can’t take it, can’t take it no more.” The entirety of “A Christmas Gift to You,” Spector’s canonic holiday alb
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Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a
thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thrilling.
Or take “Strange Love,” the Darlene Love-propelled gem that opens with a frolicking schoolyard melody before turning into a galloping riot of string- and percussion-driven weirdness as Love sings of a creeper whose brand of affection is so concerning that she “can’t take it, can’t take it no more.” The entirety of “A Christmas Gift to You,” Spector’s canonic holiday album, is a rush of joyous girl-group energy. “River Deep, Mountain High” my, oh my.