

Live Coal - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9jhhVKaAk From her 1993 album "Freedom Knows My Name" "Live Coal" we have Melanie already "raging...


Cyclone - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5j2nIloFf8 "Cyclone" was the opening track from Melanie's 1976 album "Photograph". Normally the rule for...


Beautiful People - Melanie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFhd6eggUE Back in the mid 90's, I suggested to my partners in Polar Promotions that we should book...


The Boy - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEFgK28xew The Shangri-Las weren't just Mary Weiss and her backing singers, they weren't just producer...


Leader of the Pack - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vFOpVGjVc&ab_channel=YouCan%27tDownloadVinyl Each of the great girl groups have their own very distinct...


Past, Present and Future - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulSZo9EAYVw&ab_channel=TheShangri-Las-Topic I was going to bring the Mary Weiss memorial sequence of...


I Can Never Go Home Anymore - The Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdr-MslXkw&ab_channel=CaptainJimKirk I looked up the definition of the word "schlock" on-line and for...


I'll Never Learn - the Shangri-Las
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAmUcbr9Cz4 Before she left New York for LA, only a handful of Essra Mohawk's songs were recorded by...


I Used to Dance - Essra Mohawk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TcOd7SfFxS4 Sandy Hurvitz, soon to become Essra Mohawk (see last post) was "discovered" in...


I'll Give It to You Anyway - Essra Mohawk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3O_u0-KOjE Essra Mohawk, who died of liver cancer on December 11th last year, is a classic example of...
