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Surely everybody is familiar with the song "Little Darlin" by the Diamonds. It was a colossal hit for them in the mid 50's. Around the time this song was being played to death I was still living in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. I happened to be surfing the AM band looking for something a little less popular and more earthy to listen to. My quest took me to the higher frequencies where most of the black music fans were hanging out and one night "Little Darlin" came on but it wasn't the one by the Diamonds, it was the Original by a group called the "Gladiolas". At first it sounded kind of like a bunch of teenagers singing on the street but after a minute or so I was totally hooked on this version. I later learned that Maurice Williams of "The Zodiacs" wrote this song and was the lead singer on this release.

It happens to men and women mostly...

I just want to put some music up to rock away the blues and delete this blog at a later date because it has no significance to anyone...

Uplifting,.................................

I finally got my sub woofer for my pa system. For anyone who don't know what that is, its a speaker specially voiced for making bass frequency's.

Its a 720 watt powered sub (amp is built into the speaker box).

Its very efficient (meaning that for a 720 rig, it is unusually intensely loud). I got my regular system cranked whatever it can do and the sub is blowing it away.

I am happy

Good song won last night ,why can't Ireland produce something like that

My blog today is about vinyl LP's. It's been 40 years since digital CD's hit the market. I remember they professed it would be the kiss of death to vinyl LP's. CD's are the best and the worst in the music industry all in the same breath. When first released around 1982, people were forced to switch gears and buy new players. People weren't happy. They went through upgrades in 8-track tapes, cassettes and digital cassettes.

The good thing about CD's is you could fit more music on a CD than an LP. I knew a DJ who used to carry boxes and boxes of LP's to his gigs. When he switched to CD's it was only 2 cases.
Play a CD a thousand times and have no loss of quality. No scratching, no skipping. Physically, taking less space for storage, easy to send in the mail. Yet some people hated them.

CD's were easy to rip and download to a hard disk or digital storage. Now, DJ's only need a portable drive... or an iPhone with extended memory for hundreds of songs in their library.
Oh, if you don't have that special request, you can easily down load it from an online library through your cellphone data plan!

All these great things about CD's, but the 2 major drawbacks (that I can think of) is all the visual media is now compressed from 12" to 5" so albums selling merely because they have a cool looking cover has diminished and that warm analog sound of vinyl was replaced by a cold sterile digital representation.
Some people can hear the difference between the same music on an LP compared to a CD. For the most part, it's not important to 95% of the music listeners, so it is what it is.

That said, some artists actually have a small number of vinyl albums pressed and available for the music purists.

I know rap DJ's have CD digital turntables and emulate the 'scratch' sounds they popularized using old turntables.

I had forgotten about vinyl records for a while. Moving storage boxes last weekend I found my collection and oddly while walking through Walmart today, I found a rack of vinyl LP's as proof... vinyl ain't dead!