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Today, July 9, is Tom Hanks’ birthday. And while we must all keep Tom Hanks Day in our hearts in different ways placing a garland around our typewriters, wearing a single red shoe, not crying in baseball we are all forced to acknowledge that, on this day of all days, Tom Hanks is allowed to do anything that he wants. Luckily, said carte blanche typically gets spent on standard dad shit and not, like, founding blood cults. All of which leads to the news that Hanks took over online music stream Boss Radio 66 (formerly, per its Twitter account, Rock ‘N’ Soul Ichiban on New Jersey’s venerable WFMU) for an hour-long set today titled “Songs From The Back Of The Station Wagon!”
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Sly & The Viscaynes - Yellow Moon The Complete Recordings 1961-1962
Historically important collection of Sly Stone’s musical baby pictures
by Kieron TylerSunday, 07 March 2021
The man in the middle – the future Sly Stone looks happy with his place in the ViscaynesAce Records
The Viscaynes ought to have been a footnote. A minor footnote. From Vallejo in north California, they were one amongst many early Sixties vocal groups giving it a shot. Some were lucky and had hits. The Earls, The Impalas and Randy & The Rainbows did. Like The Marcels, who charted with “Blue Moon”, they were all rooted in the doo wop sound. Despite their three singles – including the Marcels referencing “Yellow Moon” – The Viscaynes did not break through to