A Cavalcade of Rock: Weird Al Yankovic

In 1976 Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic first achieved minor notoriety while still a high school student in 1976 after sending a homemade tape to the Dr. Demento Radio Show and getting airtime for a song called “Belvedere Cruising”. Al went to Cal Poly at San Louis Obispo after high school and while a sophomore [...]

A Cavalcade of Rock: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Emerson, Lake and Palmer began ca. 1970 and were made up of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. ELP was, perhaps, the first group of hard rockers who truly wanted to incorporate other genres of music into the rock field — some say this was because they loved music of all types and wanted [...]

A Cavalcade of Rockers: Bob Seger

Bob Seger, of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, was born in Detroit on May 6 of 1945 and began his musical career in 1961 with a group called “The Decibals”. He then teamed up with “The Town Cryers” and “Doug Brown and the Omens”. Bob once stated that Little Richard and Elvis Presley [...]

A Cavalcade of Rockers: Y&T

In the early 70s a group formed in the San Francisco Bay Area that helped shape the future of Rock, the name of this band was Yesterday & Today (but it became better known as simply Y&T). The original members were Dave Meniketti (lead guitar, lead vocals), Joey Alves (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Phil Kennemore [...]

Odd Christmas Songs

The Pretty Little Dolly by Mona Abboud The Chimney Song by Bob Rivers I Farted On Santa’s Lap by Little Stinkers I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas I am Santa Clause by Bob Rivers Monsters’ Holiday by Bobby “Boris” Pickett Zat you, Santa Clause? – Buster Poindexter

My First Favorite Song.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Music: A Musical Tribute

The Music section of the Diggopolis Blog is simply share the music I have listened to over the past 50 years. It is not set up as competition to any site on the net, it’s just a place to share some music with you. While I am on the subject, sort of, a friend of [...]