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David Hinckley

Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 3. Loving the Game Vs. Loving the Team

The World Series that ended last Saturday with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the Toronto Blue Jays, four games to three, reminded me…

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Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 3. Loving the Game Vs. Loving the Team

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You Hate To Utter a Discouraging Word About Those Perfect 1950s TV Moms. But.

The death of June Lockhart last week, a century after she was born, feels like a symbolic closing credit for one of early television’s most…

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You Hate To Utter a Discouraging Word About Those Perfect 1950s TV Moms. But.

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WFDU: How One Small Radio Station Hopes To Conquer the Future By Mining the Past

During Mark Chernoff’s second shift as a once-a-week host for radio station WFDU (89.1 FM), he saw a song on the computer list that he…

Oct 28

WFDU: How One Small Radio Station Hopes To Conquer the Future By Mining the Past

Oct 28

Dr. Demento: An Rx That Was Good For 55 Years

While Barry Hansen enjoyed the 1960s rock explosion as much as the next hard-core music fan, he also noted a casualty. Where was “Hello…

Oct 14

Dr. Demento: An Rx That Was Good For 55 Years

Oct 14

Diane Keaton: Didn’t Know Ya, Really Gonna Miss Ya

It’s a serious albeit common mistake to fall for performers on the assumption that in real life they must be the same as the characters…

Oct 11

Diane Keaton: Didn’t Know Ya, Really Gonna Miss Ya

Oct 11

Terry Johnson, the Flamingos and the Place Where R&B Met Pop

Ask any collector of 1950s rhythm and vocal group music for his or her favorite artists, and every list will include the Flamingos.

Oct 11

Terry Johnson, the Flamingos and the Place Where R&B Met Pop

Oct 11

Connecting the Dots Between Hallmark Movies, ‘Detroit City’ and Troops in the Streets

President Trump’s suggestion this week that “dangerous” American cities be used as “training grounds” for the military drew the expected…

Oct 4

Connecting the Dots Between Hallmark Movies, ‘Detroit City’ and Troops in the Streets

Oct 4

Mention Sonny Curtis and You Don’t Just Hear Crickets

Back in the summer of 1961 the Four Preps scored a top-20 hit with a comic song titled “The More Money for You and Me Medley,” in which…

Sep 24

Mention Sonny Curtis and You Don’t Just Hear Crickets

Sep 24

Bobby Jay: Part of Radio History and Still in the Radio Present

Everything wasn’t better in the olden days of the 1950s and 1960s. A lot of things were worse.

Sep 22

Bobby Jay: Part of Radio History and Still in the Radio Present

Sep 22

‘Downton Abbey’: The Sun Never Sets on a Good Bedtime Story

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale tries its hardest to assure us that no, no, no, for sure, this time it’s definitely over.

Sep 18

‘Downton Abbey’: The Sun Never Sets on a Good Bedtime Story

Sep 18

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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