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David Hinckley

David Hinckley

Tommy Cash: Walking the Line WhenYour Brother Is Johnny

The Major League Baseball record for most home runs by two brothers is 768. Hank Aaron had 755 and Tommie Aaron had 13.

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Tommy Cash: Walking the Line WhenYour Brother Is Johnny

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David Hinckley

Then There Was the Time James Earl Jones Couldn’t Find His Voice

It was four days after Christmas 1993 and James Earl Jones was saying he couldn’t get his voice to do what he wanted it to do.

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Then There Was the Time James Earl Jones Couldn’t Find His Voice

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David Hinckley

Making Music is the Important Part. Documenting It is Not Nothing.

There are people who listen to music and then there are people who are obsessed with knowing everything about the music to which they are…

Sep 9

Making Music is the Important Part. Documenting It is Not Nothing.

Sep 9

David Hinckley

Jimmy Webb’s Wichita Lineman Almost Didn’t Make It To the Line

(Prelude: On March 11, 2020, I talked to Jimmy Webb in advance of his scheduled appearance at the Long Island music club My Father’s Place…

Aug 18

Jimmy Webb’s Wichita Lineman Almost Didn’t Make It To the Line

Aug 18

David Hinckley

Another Radio Story Ends: WCBS-AM Is Leaving Home, Bye-Bye

Like newspapers, magazines and television, the radio biz has scratched its head for a couple of decades about how to remain relevant in a…

Aug 14

Another Radio Story Ends: WCBS-AM Is Leaving Home, Bye-Bye

Aug 14

David Hinckley

’60s Folk Music? Terri Thal Was in the Rooms Where It Happened

Terri Thal’s My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me offers another valuable informed reflection on the handful of years in the early 1960’s…

Aug 8

’60s Folk Music? Terri Thal Was in the Rooms Where It Happened

Aug 8

David Hinckley

Maurice Williams: The Simple World of Hits and the Complex World of Covers

The late Maurice Williams provided ammunition to those who scorned early rock ’n’ roll as kind of simplistic.

Aug 8

Maurice Williams: The Simple World of Hits and the Complex World of Covers

Aug 8

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Bernice Johnson Reagon Chased Freedom With a Song

Sometime in 1956, the splendid South African singer Miriam Makeba decided to record an English-language ballad called “Lovely Lies” with a…

Aug 2

Bernice Johnson Reagon Chased Freedom With a Song

Aug 2

David Hinckley

RIP Duke Fakir, Last of the Four Tops, Who Were Not Just a Same Old Song

One of the places I always wished I had been, besides at Yankee Stadium for the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, was riding in a car…

Jul 23

RIP Duke Fakir, Last of the Four Tops, Who Were Not Just a Same Old Song

Jul 23

David Hinckley

RIP Bob Newhart, a Very Funny Man and an Underrated Revolutionary

When you think about the cultural revolutions of the last 60 or 70 years — and really, who doesn’t? — you may not immediately think of Bob…

Jul 19

RIP Bob Newhart, a Very Funny Man and an Underrated Revolutionary

Jul 19

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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