Tom Jones – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – September 20, 2016 Click on thumbnails to see full-sized pictures. Photos by Jay S. Jacobs © 2016 Continue reading
DARK HORSE (2016) Featuring Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian “Daisy” Vokes, Angela Davies, Tony Kerby, Maureen Jones, Eira Williams, Derek Williams, Johnson White, Andy Smith, Eddie Thomas, Wendy Adams, Neal Ellstone, Peter Williams, Joan Humphries, Tina Chinnick, Andrea Miskelly, Minnie Maude, Ida Faircloth, Clive Morgan, Craig Price, Martin Beecham, Peter Beecham, Bob Hodson, David Gwynne, … Continue reading
Tom Jones – Theater of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA – May 17, 2013 The youthful and charismatic Prince of Wales of yore has matured into a slightly grizzled and hardened King. While the years have passed and life has challenged, he still retains at 70 years old the chiseled handsomeness and bellwether voice … Continue reading
Various Artists – The Best of Bond… James Bond (Verve) The music behind James Bond has always been part of the allure of the super-spy, a loungy, seductive musical canon tailor-made to naked women dancing in silhouette behind the opening credits – vaguely suggesting danger and the good life. As the Bond film series approaches its 50th anniversary, … Continue reading
Sir George Martin A Little Help for His Friends by Ken Sharp George Martin is inarguably the most successful music producer of all-time. If there’s anyone who can legitimately lay claim to the mantle of “Fifth” Beatle, it’s George Martin. Martin’s unparalleled production expertise coupled with his profound talents as a musician, arranger and conductor … Continue reading
Music Scene The Best of 1969-1970 (Volumes 1 & 2) (MPI Home Video-2000) The train wreck that is Music Scene – an uncomfortable, pre-Saturday Night Live mix of youthful comedy and popular music – is worth watching if only for its noble attempt to do what it did before what it did was done right. This ABC variety … Continue reading
The Ed Sullivan Show Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics (Rhino-2002) Your tolerance of the variety show format is equally proportional to the amount of hours you’ve viewed MTV since 1981. More than two decades have passed since the rest of television adapted to the now-taken-for-granted style of the quick-edited, odd-camera-angled, sound-bit, irony-heavy entertainment presentation. You are … Continue reading
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