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: I Want Candi!

Photos courtesy of Bill Carpenter and Mario Casselli It goes without question that one of music’s most seminal anthems depicting necessary assertion and cathartic independence is Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 classic “I...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Crusaders – Takin’ It To The Street

Photos courtesy of Stix Hooper What makes the late 1970s so unique musically is the fact that multiple genres all managed to secure their own distinct place in time. Sure,...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Tennessee Studs (Foggy Mountain Breakthrough)

Within the sphere of popular music in Nixonian-era 1972, there’s an interesting hybrid of commercial acts. Teen idols, hard rockers, proggers, female belters, country crooners, soulsters — nothing is...

Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “He Was Our Coach” (You Did Good)

Photos courtesy of Brad Long “It’s opening only in Indiana and it’s gonna open elsewhere in January, but I think they ought to open this one in New York and...

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...