Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “Touch The Sun And Run” ~ The Association Go To...
Photos courtesy of Russ Giguere
Every Sunday night when I was growing up meant movie night with my father. Usually my sister and I would pick from a round robin...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Sweet Green Icing Of Success ~ In Defense Of...
Photo by Henry Diltz
"You don’t mean to suggest that someone
would criticize ('MacArthur Park')?
I mean, my God! (laughter)"
– Jimmy Webb, March 2018
Based on its compositional structure alone, “MacArthur Park” should...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Out Of The Blue Angel
Before she had post-working day fun with the girls; before she made her true colors shine; before we looked and found her time after time, pop iconoclast Cyndi Lauper...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Don’t Forget Me – Glass Tiger’s Roaring Debut
In less than a decade’s time, the phrase “Take my breath away” made three separate musical acts pop luminaries in the states, albeit for microcosmic moments.
In 1979, teen mainstay...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Power of Collaborative Gold ~ Dan Fogelberg & Tim...
Photo by Norman Seeff
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
“This album constitutes a collaboration, experimental in nature, between Tim and myself. It is an attempt for both...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: A Place For My Stuff Albums
Photos courtesy of Chris Parker
Often throughout music history, we herald bands that showcase an enigmatic or dynamic frontman (or frontwoman) or put flash and pomp before substance. While this,...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Look At Little Sister
Photo Courtesy of Kate Taylor
One of my fondest memories occurred at about 7 AM on August 9, 2014 — my 30th birthday.
I was about the board a ferry with my...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Snake Eyes, Seventh Heaven ~ The Alan Parsons Project ‘The...
Photo Courtesy of Lenny Zakatek
The Alan Parsons Project
The Turn Of A Friendly Card
In 1980, the Alan Parsons Project opted to make gambling the core concept of its fifth album....
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: ‘I’m Mississippi, Got The New York Blues’ (Forbert Comes Alive)
Photos courtesy of Steve Forbert
Between 1977 and 1978, at the height of the Bowery punk movement, a fresh-faced 22/23-year-old singing-songwriting Mississippian named Steve Forbert strove to make New York...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: When Pride First Mattered
Photos courtesy of Charles Valentino and Chris Spierer
It took four individuals to propel the first — and, to date, most impactful — gay anthem into public consciousness.
Direct in its...
