We’re listening to Kyle’s show as I write this entry. He plays 45s from the 50s, 60s and 70s on Sunday afternoons, a show called “Up on the Roof,” and he never fails to surprise us with songs from the prime of our lives that we’re not that familiar with. William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful for What You Got” was today’s gem, a soul song from 1974 that reached number 4 on the Billboard charts. Almost sounded like Curtis Mayfield.
We stopped in Skylark on Friday night to catch Tom Kohn spinning records, all 45s of course, the perfect medium. He was really mashing it up with Velvet Underground, the Vibrators and Henry Kaiser doing ZZ Top’s “La Grange.” We settled in behind the turntables and had a blast watching him thumb through pristine copies of underground classics. At the end of the night he had records in piles outside their sleeves, a true sign of a good party.
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