Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: It’s Monks’ Time
Photos courtesy of Eddie Shaw
It goes without saying that 1966 proved to be one of the most pivotal years in the history of popular music.
Sure, we would get Pet...
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: Exile On Easy Street
Photo Courtesy of Exile
In 1978, the Gibb brothers and younger sibling Andy engaged in a six-month-long ping-pong-like domination over the Billboard Hot 100, volleying one iconic hit to fans...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Voice (‘Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny’)
Black & white photos by Richard Avedon
Johnny Mathis didn’t need to come from a rock and R&B background to become one of the coolest entertainers ever.
Give a think as...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Jon Butcher Axis – Bold As Hell
Photos courtesy of Jon Butcher
When I’m not in full-blown public relations mode at my day job, I’m usually conferring with colleagues throughout the country about the bands and artists...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Still Alive ~ Baby, Just Take Another Look (At Clover)
Photos courtesy of Alex Call
In 1977, right before punk becomes the zeitgeist musical movement in the UK and the states, a Bay Area-based six-piece band took one last mighty...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Mr. Bacharach Goes To Houston
At one time or another in your life you’ve sung some element of a Burt Bacharach song out loud.
With a virtual warehouse chock full of hit singles, the now...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: White Punks With Hope – The Tubes ~ What Do...
Photo Courtesy of John Staley Photography
The Tubes
What Do You Want From Live
On their second album, they sang about the glories of being “young and rich,” but by 1977, the...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: As I Sit In My Four Cornered Room…
Fifty years ago, one of music’s greatest melting pot collectives released their masterpiece.
The World Is A Ghetto by War is a seminal six-track work that told it like it...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Big Bad Jim
Photo of A.J. and Jim Croce together courtesy of Joshua Black Wilkins and Paul Wilson
September 20, 1973 marked the day the music died a second time.
Jim Croce, the tender singer,...
