“For those who will listen and not just hear…” That was the intended audience for the album where today’s Song Of The Day comes from, according to its back cover, and they certainly broke the mold after this one was committed to wax. But back in 1969 record labels like Reprise let artists experiment and follow their muse, resulting in one of the most eccentric records ever … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “Caramels” by Mort Shuman
Rod McKuen
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “As I Love My Own” by Aaron Freeman
He's better known as Gene Ween of the brownest band around, Ween. After years of touring as a solo act while his buddy Mickey Melchiondo angles the ocean blue, he's decided to release a solo album of, get this, songs by "poet" and songwriter Rod McKuen. McKuen was a big deal back in the 1960s, wrote quite a bit of pretentious poetry, wrote the song "Jean" from the film "The … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “As I Love My Own” by Aaron Freeman