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David Hinckley

RIP Carl Erskine, Who Was So Much More Than a Bounced Curveball

It would be reassuring to think the Brooklyn Dodgers will never fade from history, since love ’em or hate ’em they played out one of…

7 min read1 day ago

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RIP Carl Erskine, Who Was So Much More Than a Bounced Curveball

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David Hinckley

Frogman Henry and a Fan From Liverpool

Sometime in mid-1961, a 20-year-old music fan in Liverpool bought a 45 rpm copy of Clarence “Frogman” Henry’s “But I Do.”

5 min read2 days ago

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Frogman Henry and a Fan From Liverpool

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Louis Gossett Jr. and the Fine Art of Stealing the Show. Sir, Yes Sir!

Bill Gallo, the late sports cartoonist for the New York Daily News, told a story about his World War II experience in the Marine Corps that…

5 min readMar 31, 2024

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Louis Gossett Jr. and the Fine Art of Stealing the Show. Sir, Yes Sir!

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David Hinckley

The $700,000 Man and the Joy Of All Things Random

Who doesn’t love an indecipherable story involving an eye-catching sum of money?

4 min readMar 26, 2024

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The $700,000 Man and the Joy Of All Things Random

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David Hinckley

Sometimes You Just Write Off the Hundred Dollars

“Well here I am and there they go

7 min readMar 19, 2024

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Sometimes You Just Write Off the Hundred Dollars

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David Hinckley

If Eric Carmen Didn’t Go All the Way, He Went Far Enough to Liven Up the Radio

Eric Carmen created a great radio record at a time when the music biz wasn’t quite sure what a great radio record should be any more.

6 min readMar 13, 2024

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If Eric Carmen Didn’t Go All the Way, He Went Far Enough to Liven Up the Radio

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David Hinckley

Steve Lawrence Just Sang. For 66 Years.

If you were not looking for the best pop singer of the 20th century — Ella, Frank, Bing, Billie, etc. — but the quintessential pop singer…

4 min readMar 8, 2024

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Steve Lawrence Just Sang. For 66 Years.

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David Hinckley

Take a Sad Song and Make It Better: The Brian Wilson Version

About 20 minutes after the death of Brian Wilson’s wife Melinda on Jan. 30, his family asked a court to place the 81-year-old musical icon…

8 min readFeb 22, 2024

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Take a Sad Song and Make It Better: The Brian Wilson Version

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David Hinckley

Randy Sparks, The New Christy Minstrels and Trying To Figure Out What Exactly is ‘Folk Music’

After Randy Sparks dropped out of Berkeley in the early 1950s with the long-odds goal of writing and performing folksongs for a living, he…

5 min readFeb 18, 2024

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Randy Sparks, The New Christy Minstrels and Trying To Figure Out What Exactly is ‘Folk Music’

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David Hinckley

Hinton Battle Didn’t Start Out As ‘Gotta Dance.’ But He GotThere.

Considering he won three Tony Awards for his Broadway dancing, Hinton Battle was pretty candid in admitting there were times when he…

5 min readJan 31, 2024

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Hinton Battle Didn’t Start Out As ‘Gotta Dance.’ But He GotThere.

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley

David Hinckley wrote for the New York Daily News for 35 years. Now he drives his wife crazy by randomly quoting Bob Dylan and “Casablanca.”

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