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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL ("THE MIGHTY MEZ") MESNIK PRESENTS A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: IT'S A CHOICE TO BE HAPPY!IT’S A CHOICE TO BE HAPPY (Music and lyrics by Bill Mesnik)What makes me happy?Cause when I feel happyI feel like shitI can’t define itI thought I was happyBut was I really happy?I don’t knowI just can’t show itEach soggy birthday cake makes me quiver and quakeA jog around the lake?I can’t fake it.
2025-08-1302 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSTHE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S NEW PILOT PROJECT: "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND," IN WHICH OUR INTREPID NAVEL GAZER TRIPS THE LIGHT FANTASTIC DOWN THE CORRIDORS OF HIS DREAM JOURNAL AND DIARY. (FIRST EPISODE: AUGUST, 2024.)In 2005, while visiting the gift shop at the downtown Los Angeles MOCA museum, I came upon a blank journal with a cover fashioned from a salvaged vinyl album by The Allman Brothers. It had the pink Capricorn label. As a lover of vinyl I grabbed it, and decided to begin a journal. It’s been ten years, and I’ve been keeping this diary and transcribing my dreams ever since. Dreams, ideas for songs, and a chronicle of my family and interior life. I always intended to go back and see if there was some sense of somethi...
2025-05-0333 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES BY BILL EVANS AND TONY BENNETT (FANTASY, 1975) EPISODE #94Here is a “Sunny Song”, wherein the fleeting sunlight is a dappled reminder of the evanescence of existence. They’re all gone now: Bill Evans (piano), Tony Bennett (vocals), Henry Mancini (Composer), and Johnny Mercer (Lyricist), but their beautiful creation lives on to remind us to gather our rosebuds while we may.Sadness, and gratitude run in equal measure throughout all of the song’s manifestations. The title itself derives from an 1896 poem by Ernest Dowson, taken from the Roman poet, Horace, whose latin translates as:“The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of endurin...
2025-04-0404 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: BIG BAD BILL (IS SWEET WILLIAM NOW) BY RY COODER, (REPRISE, 1978) EPISODE #93From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobate ways had also been domesticated by love. And, another harmonic convergence: I had even spent a year in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack Yellen, the Jewish-Polish immigrant who wrote these Jazz-age lyrics, also penned Happy Days are Here Again, and Ain’t She Sweet. If he had only created the...
2025-03-1706 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSTHE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" -NEW SERIES! WITH ROBERT PLANT AND ROGER MCGUINN - A DUPLEX OF RHYTHMIC REACTION PAIRING TUNES WHICH CONNECT THE DOTS OF POPULAR MUSIC AS BILL MESNIK CHANNELS THE FLOWER POWER OF RICH BUCKLAND- DOUBLE DOWN!Lennon and McCartney eloquently recited an affirmation stating that In My Life I Loved Them All.The affection for certain artists and the melodic poetry they injected into our souls has remained in our wiring through the good, the bad and the uncertain times of our lives.One beloved gentleman we cherish was known as Arthur Alexander. Known as June to his closest companions, he was a one of a kind country-soul songwriter and singer. It can easily be said that he invented the genre.The fifth American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released i...
2025-02-2312 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: QUE SERA SERA BY SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (EPIC, 1973) #87This is a difficult artistic puzzle to sort out: a) Why is this, Doris Day’s signature song, the only cover that Sly ever recorded?; and, b), Is its delivery of “cheerful fatalism” a positive or a negative? The motto, cribbed by song writers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for the Hitchcock film THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, from another film THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, has a rich history of memento mori application going back centuries, and yet, here it appears in a fresh, compelling funk version for the modern era. It’s a brain teaser.For me it’s...
2025-01-0707 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "FAMOUS LAST WORDS- OUR NEW YEAR EXTRAVAGANZA!!"- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- REFLECTIONS, PERCEPTIONS & MUSICAL MEDICINE COMBINED WITH THE WISDOM OF TWO OLD GUYS WHO REFUSE TO GO GENTLYAT THE HOTEL BOHEMIA WE BELIEVE YOU CAN'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.2025 COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN.CAN YOU DIG IT? Drummer Buddy Rich died after surgery in 1987. As he was being prepped for surgery, a nurse asked him, “Is there anything you can’t take?” Rich replied, “Yeah, country music.”Lucky Luciano was a mob leader who helped the U.S. work with the Sicilian Mafia during World War II in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. His last words were, “Tell Georgie I want...
2025-01-011h 12
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE GRATEFUL LIVE- ONE BIG SOUL" -THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK, ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE A CONFLICTED MAZE OF POST THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY EMOTIONS -A TIGHTROPE EXCURSION FOR ALL FANS OF GRACE & NERVOUS BREAKDOWNSOkay. No one wants to spoil the party.But according to the American Psychological Association, 89% of US adults reported feeling stressed during the 2023 holiday season. It's a good news, bad news situation much like this podcast which is truly a conflicted search for the highway to heaven, if such a utopia indeed exists.At least we make an effort to engage about the comforted and the awkward which is more than I can say for many who only pretend to do so.The holiday season can cause stress for many reasons, including:
2024-12-0758 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTS A SPECIAL THANKSGIVING "SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET"- SONG TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD -- ALICE'S RESTAURANT MASSACREE BY ARLO GUTHRIE (REPRISE, 1967). EPISODE #85From Bill:Reflecting upon the recent death of Alice Brock, the lady who lived in the bell tower of the abandoned church in Stockbridge, MA, along with her husband, Ray, (and Vacha, the dog) -, and who hosted the now legendary Thanksgiving feast attended by young Arlo Guthrie, that time when he got arrested trying to do his hosts a solid by dumping their excessive garbage - which subsequently soiled his record, making him ineligible for the draft. Well, reflecting upon this landmark recording made me realize how much Arlo and his song had been fundamental to my...
2024-11-2721 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "DEVIL IN THE BOTTLE -RICH BUCKLAND'S ODYSSEY THROUGH THE COUNTRY MUSIC LOOKING AND DRINKING GLASS"- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- WITH JERRY LEE LEWIS, GARY STEWART, T.G SHEPPARD & GEORGE JONESThe story of a boy, a bottle and the redemption Country Music can deliver.
2024-11-2437 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "WE AND MR. JONES -AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MUSICAL MAGNITUDE "- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- FROM HIS FILM SCORES TO MILES DAVIS TO CONDUCTING SINATRA'S VOCAL INTELLECT, QUINCY WAS THE WORLDQuincy Jones Receives Posthumous Oscar, and Daughter Gives His SpeechAt the Governors Awards, Rashida Jones spoke on behalf of her father, who died earlier this month at the age of 91.Before his death two weeks ago, the musician and producer Quincy Jones wrote a speech he intended to deliver at the Governors Awards, where he would receive an honorary Oscar at the ceremony created by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.On Sunday night in Hollywood, his actress daughter...
2024-11-2325 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS: “REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT"- A KNEE JERK OFF GONZO JOURNALISM REACTION TO THE TRUMP MUDSLIDE - BILL AND RICH TRY TO MAKE COMMON SENSE OUT OF SOCIAL ABUSE REWARDED"REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT" WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PHIL OCHS-"IF i CAN DREAM" WRITTEN BY EARL BROWN AND RECORDED BY ELVIS PRESLEY IN HONOR OF THE ONLY ROBERT KENNEDY IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING HIS ASSASSINATION."THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED" DIRECTED BY ROBERT CORMAN AND NARRATED BY CHET HUNTLEY."THE BEST MAN" DIRECTED BY FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER FEATURING HENRY FONDA AND CLIFF ROBERTSON.“There’s something about the guy that I love…” This is what Rich remembered that I had said about DJT. I didn’t remember say...
2024-11-1024 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS “DARTH VADER AND OTHER SWEET INSPIRATIONS"- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK WELCOME JAMES EARL JONES, CISSY HOUSTON, J.D. SOUTHER, AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON TO THE STARLIGHT LOUNGE.A note from Bill: Rich says I'm too modest about discussing my Acting career - could be. But, today I have a story that I felt compelled to share about my "brush with greatness" with one of the greatest American actors of the 20th century: the titanic James Earl Jones, in a Shakespearean production of the rarely produced Timon of Athens. It's one thing to work with an awesome talent, - and I've stood toe to toe with a bunch of Academy, Tony, and Emmy award winners -, but the heat coming off from this ic...
2024-10-1233 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS “ELECTRIC FLAG AT HALF-MAST”-NICK GRAVENITIS JOINS THE ETERNALS AT THE HOTEL LOUNGE - A CELEBRATION OF A LIFE “BURIED IN THE BLUES.”- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIKhttps://nickgravenites.com/This singing-songwriting, blues legend carried the standard of the Chicago masters such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Junior Wells, and many others beyond the Midwest, to a whole new audience of flower children in California and beyond, when he fronted Mike Bloomfield's foundational "All American" band, The Electric Flag at the Monterey Pop Festival. Maintaining his passionate devotion to his art right up until his passing at age 85, having released a new album shortly his departure.Bill and Rich welcome Nick to the Hotel Bohemia, where he can co...
2024-09-2835 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "WINDS OF CHANGE-THE WALKING MILES, COLTRANE, KAMALA AND EVANS BLUES- A MEDITATION"- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK-THE CLEAR POWER OF INSPIRATION AS AMERICA CONTEMPLATES AN ULTIMATE VERDICTSixty-five years ago, “Kind of Blue”was recorded and performed by a young group of talented musicians —before they were jazz legends — under the leadership of the visionary trumpeter Miles Davis. Initial sales were slow after the August 1959 release, but then the album caught fire, becoming the best-selling jazz album of all time.So why has “Kind of Blue”endured as the top classic jazz album for 65 years?“I think of 'Kind of Blue’ as a timeless piece of work,” said James Kaplan, author of “3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire...
2024-09-2128 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: I’M A BOX (MUM-MUM-MUM) BY THE HI FI’S (UNITED ARTISTS , 1967) EPISODE #76What if your Amazon packages could talk? What if they had palpitating, expectant hearts as they sped to your house? And, what a let down, after you’d ripped them open, shredded them, and left them for the recycler. What ingratitude, after their selfless commitment to your happiness.Tool-maker, turned bassist Gary Unwin brings this anthropomorphic idea to life, abetted by lead singer and Vox Continental organist Brian Bennett. Here, courtesy of the Hi Fi’s, a busy, up and coming band of wannabe British invaders plying their rock n roll trade in Germany (as the Silver Beet...
2024-09-0805 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - JOHNNY NASH - "I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW" (EPIC, 1972) - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - THE SAGA OF A REGGAE VISIONARY!http://johnnynash.com/Texas born actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur, Johnny Nash (1940-2020) was a driven visionary that, undaunted by commercial challenges in the U.S. marketplace, relocated to Jamaica, founded JAD Records, discovered and signed Bob Marley, and helped grow Reggae's popularity around the world - first by covering Marley's "Stir It Up," then, by writing and recording this inspiring ode to survival and hope.And, let's not forget that he was also the voice of the theme song to the mid-'60s cartoon show "The Mighty Hercules!"Bill and Rich...
2024-09-0815 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - AARON NEVILLE - "TELL IT LIKE IT IS" (PARLO, 1966) - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - BUTTERY TONE AND ANGELIC EXPRESSION!ALL HAIL NEW ORLEANS' ROYALTY! The boys pay homage to one of the greatest voices - (and most spiritual human beings) - ever to grace the earth. And, you can read the recently released memoir that reveals his triumphs and tribulations. https://aaronneville.com/Tell It Like It Is – OUT NOW!Aaron Neville shares his story, complete with stories of overcoming struggles and finally achieving success, in his debut memoir ‘Tell It Like It Is’: now available! Read all about Neville’s incredible path through life and own the book here. Also, che...
2024-08-3030 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHAROAHS - "WOOLY BULLY" (MGM, 1965) - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - INFECTIOUS NONSENSE!Domingo Samudio (b.February 28, 1937), better known as "Sam the Sham" is a quintessential American entrepreneur: a huckster with limited vocal ability, who took a simple, Show biz concept: - a corny, lovable, Rock n Roll persona - a TexMex Pharaoh in a turban, created a raft of top 10 smashes, and in the process became immortal. In 1965, Wooly Bully, a salsa flavored variation on the Hully Gully dance hit, started it all for Domingo, who continues on his journey to this day, sharing his colorful experiences and life lessons as a motivational speaker.
2024-08-2516 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE EL WATUSI CONNECTION- THE RAY BARRETTO STORY "- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- One of the most influential percussionists of all time, Ray helped bring Latin rhythms into the jazz mainstream.Raymond Barretto Pagan was born to Puerto Rican parents in New York on April 29, 1929. When he was barely four years old, his father decided to leave home and return to Puerto Rico. His mother settled in the South Bronx and raised her three children by herself. From an early age, Barretto was influenced by two styles of music: Latin and Jazz. During the day, his mother listened to the music of Daniel Santos, Bobby Capó, and the Los Panchos Trio. However, as Ray grew up, he fell in love with Machito Grillo, Marcelino Guerra, Arsenio Rodríguez, and th...
2024-08-1832 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - GERRY RAFFERTY - "BAKER STREET" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - A CLASSIC SONG POWERED BY AN IMMORTAL SAXOPHONE RIFF!The story of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" has it all: a troubled, ambivalent creator, an unforgettable sax riff whose ownership has spawned controversy for almost 50 years, and a mysterious, compelling lyric. One of Scotland's leading artistic lights, Rafferty, who started as partner to the beloved comedian Billy Connolly in The Humblebums, went on the wow the world with Stealer's Wheel's irresistible mega-hit "Stuck in the middle with you, before torpedoing that early success. He refused to tour, and after going solo, became increasingly withdrawn into an alcoholic death-spiral, which ended with his death at age 63. Bill and R...
2024-08-1432 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTS: THE SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET - SONGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD - EPISODE #72 - QUINCY JONES - SANFORD AND SON THEME “THE STREETBREAKER” (A&M, 1973)Redd Foxx was one funny motherfucker. And, hell on wheels. Apparently, he was the scourge of taxi drivers in Las Vegas, where he lived, worked, and is buried - because he would either throw up in the backseat of their cabs, or refuse to pay his fare, or both. As the “King of the Party Records”, Redd made 50 dirty albums (I have a few on 8 track) - before hitting national gold on Sanford and Son, that show about a junkman and his boy that ran for six seasons, starting in 1972. I just found out that Foxx’s birth name actual...
2024-08-1006 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - THE TORNADOS - "TELSTAR" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - JOE MEEK'S GHOSTLY TRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE!https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/communications-satellite-telstar/nasm_A20070113000The Splendid Bohemians are taking you back to 1962, a time when technology held so much promise for a more peaceful tomorrow. Telstar, the communications satellite was launched, linking one side of the globe to the other; Kennedy announced the good news to the world, and Joe Meek created an eternal musical tribute. Of course, we know (sort of) what happened to JFK, and Joe Meek…? Well, there’s a story, and the boys are opening the crypt to interrogate the ghosts. Join us!
2024-08-0320 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - JOEY HEATHERTON - "GONE" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik - PASSION REVEALED!“GONE” - JOEY HEATHERTON (MGM, 1972)It all started with a friendly competition. We had just done an episode about my early crush Bobby Gentry and her iconic “Ode to Billy Joe”. Rich does a counterpunch here with a tribute to his own teen heartthrob, the pulchritudinous Joey Heatherton, daughter of Ray “The Merry Mailman” - a host of one of our after-school staples of kid’s programming. When Rich is passionate about something I just have to stand back and let him rhapsodize, and here his eloquence is in top form. Later, as the story tu...
2024-07-2835 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - LITTLE WILLIE JOHN- "COTTAGE FOR SALE" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill MesnikLittle Willie John was a teenager when he recorded his first hit, “All Around the World,” for King Records, in 1955.When his career faded in 1962, John was a grizzled veteran of 25. Although rock & roll was once the province of the young, few singers under the age of 20 have been able to communicate more than jittery restlessness or poignant ache.Little Willie John did much more. Like his contemporaries Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Clyde McPhatter, Little Willie John was a vanguard of soul.
2024-07-2234 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "SCOTT MCKENZIE- THE POWER OF THE FLOWER "- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- SCOTT AND JOHN PHILLIPS MET WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL- TOGETHER THEY DEFINED A NEW CULTURE WHEN "MONTEREY POP" ARRIVEDAugust 20, 2012-Scott sang a gentle song that became a hit and something of a theme song for 1967's "Summer of Love."Scott McKenzie, best known for San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 73. According to the singer's website, he "had been very ill recently and passed away in his home after two weeks in hospital." The Associated Press says he "had battled Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease that...
2024-07-1624 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA OF DOUBT" -A CAUTIONARY AND MELODIC MEDITATION FOR THE AGES & THE YOUTHFUL- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- WITH VINCE GILL, TONIO K, BRIAN DENNEHY, R.L BURNSIDE AND MORE"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was*?" Satchel Paige (1906-1982)"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it." George Burns (1896-1996)"The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you...
2024-07-0755 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA WELCOMES "RICHARD SAMET "KINKY" FRIEDMAN -THE WILD MAN FROM BORNEO " - November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024 - FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIKKinky Friedman, the singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans with songs like “They Ain’t Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore” — and whose biting cultural commentary earned him comparisons with Will Rogers and Mark Twain — died on Thursday at his ranch near Austin, Texas. He was 79.The writer Larry Sloman, a close friend, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.Mr. Friedman occupied a singular spot on the fringes of A...
2024-06-3057 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "POINT BLANK" -THE LEE MARVIN STORY "- WITH THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- FROM "M SQUAD" TO "THE DIRTY DOZEN" LEE MARVIN WAS A WANDERING STAR WHO ILLUMINATED THE SILVER SCREEN WITH SUBLIME ARTISTIC WONDERFebruary 18th of this year would have been Lee Marvin's 100th birthday.ROGER EBERT'S 1973 REVIEW OF "THE ICEMAN COMETH""There isn't a bad performance in the film, but there are three of such greatness they mesmerize us. The best is by the late Robert Ryan, as Larry, and this is possibly the finest performance of his career. There is such wisdom and sadness in his eyes, and such pain in his rejection of the boy Don (who may possibly be his own son), that he makes the...
2024-06-1630 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSHOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE DAY I SAW BO DIDDLEY IN WASHINGTON SQUARE "- FEATURING WILLIE NILE, MY GAL SAL, A TOUCH OF ORANGE AND OF COURSE, THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIKSegment One:A TASTE OF MONEY, A SCENT OF ORANGE Segment Two: WILLIE NILE “The unofficial poet laureate of New York City.” - Uncut"Better than most performers have to offer by far." -- Rolling Stone“Clash/Social Distortion meets Pete Seeger…a true master songwriter!” – Hits“Willie’s so good I can’t believe he’s not from New Jersey!” – Little Steven“Crossing the power of the Clash with the social consciousness of Woody Guthrie…he’s stronger than ever!” – The M...
2024-06-0937 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"DIG THIS" WITH THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS -"CHIP TAYLOR- FROM WILD THING TO NEW UKRAINIAN" - PART ONE- RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK PRESENT THE TALE OF AN UNPARALLELED SONGWRITER AND POET, PRACTITIONER OF SOCIAL EQUALITY AND BROTHER OF A MIDNIGHT COWBOYLike a cat with nine lives, Chip Taylor’s persona has embodied many iterations. Starting with his successful “songwriter for hire” status, penning golden hits like Wild Thing, and Angel of the Morning, up through his phoenix-like resurgence as an Americana elder statesman, the story of this man’s artistic survival, emerging as it did, out from the quicksand of addiction, stands as one of the Splendid Bohemian’s tales of celebration. So much so that it has to be told in two parts. https://www.songhall.org/profile/chip_taylor
2024-04-1541 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBill Mesnik Presents a musical tale that could hit a nerve with you....THE NERVE: TOGETHER AGAIN! (A "live from the garage" document of my reunited rock'n'roll brethren).THE NERVE REUNIONThis is Bill Mesnik of the Splendid Bohemians with a musical tale that could Hit A Nerve with you:Sometimes life surprises you, and families are created and sustained where you don’t expect. I belong to a garage band brotherhood, consisting of five late-life Peter Pans, swaddled in the moon-glow of teenage rock n roll dreams, and dedicated to the proposition that all musical talent, although not necessarily created equal, can restore rejuvenation to those who practice together. We call our...
2024-02-2722 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSTHE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS WELCOME YOU TO "HOTEL BOHEMIA"- EPISODE ONE-RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK INTRODUCE YOU TO A LOST JOHNNY CASH TREASURE, THE WORLD OF BROTHER THEODORE AND LINDA RONSTADT REFLECTIONS- CHECK IN IS NOW! Welcome To Hotel BohemiaEccentric. Rebellious. Amoral, quite often. But bohemianism was, maybe still is, about much more than just frightening the horses.The writer Virginia Nicholson recently told the Today programme that "in a sense, we are all bohemians today".But what is a bohemian, how do you spot one, and might you be a boho, too?"Bohemian" was originally a term with pejorative undertones given to Roma gypsies, commonly believed by the French to have originated in Bohemia, in central Europe.The Oxford...
2024-02-2533 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This" With The Splendid Bohemians- "ZAPPED AGAIN- THE STRAIGHT, BIZARRE AND WINDING ROAD OF FRANK ZAPPA"- Featuring Your Guides To The Epiphanies Of Creative Existence, Rich Buckland and Bill MesnikBizarre was originally formed in 1967 as a production company when Frank Zappa and his manager Herb Cohen negotiated their own production deal with Verve Records. The purpose of forming his own production company was to give Zappa complete creative control over his work and the works he planned to produce for others.Bizarre Records was then established in 1969 along with a companion label, Straight Records, with the intention to release albums by avant-garde artists on Bizarre, and recordings by more mainstream artists on Straight. Both labels were distributed by Warner Bros. Records.
2024-02-0336 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSLEGACIES IN DANGER, PART II: YOUR SPLENDID BOHEMIANS RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK, EXAMINE THE CAREER OF CHARLES AZNAVOURHow does one define Romance in the era of "me, too"? Bill and Rich, The Splendid Bohemians, wrestle with this question as they examine the work of the man who was dubbed "France's Frank Sinatra."Charles Aznavour (22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018), one of Armenia's favorite sons, was a cultural force as a singer, writer-composer, actor, and artistic diplomat around the world. His catalogue is voluminous. For much of the 20th century, Aznavour promulgated what the ideal of romance should be. Jean Cocteau once said: "Before Aznavour despair was unpopular". His voice describes the longing of desire, and the pai...
2024-01-0621 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSLEGACIES IN DANGER: YOUR SPLENDID BOHEMIANS RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK, EXAMINE THE CAREER OF TOM JONES.https://www.fayboundalberti.com/blog/2017/10/19/its-not-unusual-says-tom-jones-but-he-misses-the-pointWhat goes around, comes around. Tom Jones, the happily married man who claimed to have slept with 250 women in a single year opens up about his own sexual harassment early in his career.
2023-12-2624 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" THE ELECTRIC PRUNES-- "I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT"- TAKE A TRIP ON THE WILDER SIDE- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPMVISIT THE PRUNES!http://www.electricprunes.com/
2023-12-2529 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: THE BORN TO RUN OUTTAKES- A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO OUR SUPPORTERS FROM THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIKTHUNDER ROAD (THE WORK IN PROGRESS- ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC TAKE)THE HEIST (FIRST TAKE OF THE WORK COMPLETED AS "MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER"BORN TO RUN (ALTERNATIVE TAKE)BACKSTREETS (ALTERNATIVE TAKE)LOVERS IN THE COLD (DID NOT MAKE THE CUT FOR THE ALBUM)A LOVE SO FINE (DID NOT MAKE THE CUT FOR THE ALBUM)JUNGLELAND (REHEARSAL)I was a possessive motherfucker when it came to The Boss (he wasn’t “The Boss” yet; he was just a skinny, scruffy Pub-Rocker Poet). I discovered him early on, when I bought Greetings From Asbury Park on a whim, and I was...
2023-12-2129 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's -" THE KINKS- "CELLULOID HEROES" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportTHE KINKS ON NPR-https://www.npr.org/artists/15420606/the-kinks
2023-12-1729 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSRICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK PRESENT A SPECIAL, UNAIRED, ARCHIVAL EPISODE OF "DIG THIS"- "LOVE WILL ENDURE" - A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK SONG POET, PAT SKY, RECORDED SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH IN 2021.There are certain artists with whom we share an affinity - those who have touched our souls in such a way that our lives are forever changed. Such an artist was Patrick Sky: a folk singer of Georgia Creek descent, whose professional trials and eventual retreat from public life tell a compelling story.
2023-12-0131 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSTHE "DIG THIS" THANKSGIVING EXTRAVAGANZA- AN AUDIO MOTION PICTURE- MUSIC, GRATITUDE, INSPIRATION, LOVE, LAUGHTER AND FAITH - OUR GIFT TO YOU AND YOURS -HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM RICH BUCKLAND & BILL MESNIK-YOUR SPLENDID BOHEMIANSTHE DIG THIS THANKSGIVING EXTRAVAGANZA- AN AUDIO MOTION PICTURE-MUSIC, GRATITUDE, INSPIRATION, LOVE, FAITH AND LAUGHTER- OUR GIFT TO YOU AND YOURS.HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM RICH BUCKLAND & BILL MESNIK-YOUR SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S HOLIDAY INVOCATION1) CHAPEL IN THE MOOLIGHT- THE ORIOLES2) THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND- ANDREW GOLD3) IN MY LIFE- DIANA KRALL4) I THANK YOU- SAM AND DAVE5) THIS IS ALL I ASK- TONY BENNETT6) LONG LIVE OUR LOVE- THE SHANG-RI-LAS7) THE TRUTH WON'T FADE AWAY- PROCOL HARUM8) THERE BUT FOR...
2023-11-221h 14
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- DIRE STRAITS- "MONEY FOR NOTHING"- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportIn 1985, the British rock band Dire Straits released the song “Money for Nothing.” It is an undeniable rock classic. It also is a superb entry point for—of all things—judging the morality of capitalism. It is worth a listen as well as a classroom lesson.The lyrics relay the perspective of a laborer. As he sees a video of rock musicians on MTV, he expresses envy. He strains in the delivery of appliances while the musicians enjoy great wealth and adoration with little hardship:We got to...
2023-11-1823 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's- THE VANGUARD RECORDS STORY - FEATURING " THE ROOFTOP SINGERS "WALK RIGHT IN"- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM and It's ImportVanguard Records is best known for its eclectic catalog of pivotal jazz, folk, rock and blues recordings by iconic artists like Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, John Fahey, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doc Watson, Country Joe and the Fish and countless others. Most recently, Vanguard has carried forward the label's legacy of artistic excellence with a diverse roster including Barenaked Ladies, Indigo Girls, O.A.R. and Collective Soul.Riding the tail end of the popular boom of commercialized Folk Music, Vanguard's unexpected mega-hit "Walk Right In" soared to the top of the pop chart. Loo...
2023-11-1017 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" IRMA THOMAS- "BREAKAWAY" - THE QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS SOUL HONORED! Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM and It's ImportI’m sure almost everyone who interviews you must ask about “Time Is on My Side.” But could you talk about why you gave up playing it for a while in the middle of your career?"Well you know, after a while, when you sing something that you know you’ve recorded, and you did the first national version of it, and when you’re singing, somebody tells you: “Oh, you’re doing a Rolling Stones song,” I got tired of explaining that I did it before the Rolling Stones. After a while that gets to be old...
2023-11-0324 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - MOBY GRAPE- "8:05" - THE DENIAL OF A GRAND DESTINY - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's Import"Moby Grape Just Can't Catch a Break"https://www.npr.org/2007/12/21/17498799/moby-grape-just-cant-catch-a-break
2023-10-2721 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE LEGEND OF MITCH RYDER AND BOB CREWE- "TAKING ALL I CAN GET" - A JOURNEY INTO THE BELLY OF IMMORTALITY- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians -Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -Devotion & Passion In Every Bite- DIG!!Bob Crewe1930- 2014Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame In 1995.While songwriter/producer/recording star, Bob Crewe, is perhaps best remembered for the notable parade of hits penned with co-writer Bob Gaudio for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, his songwriting credits began considerably earlier.In the early '50s, New Jersey-born Crewe first tasted success on the music charts with writing teammate Frank Slay with a batch of hits for a variety of artists. Among the best known were "Silhouettes" and "Daddy Cool" for The...
2023-10-2329 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS "TOM T" HALL - May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021 - "I LOVE" -Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik--The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Honor ItCountry Hall of Fame member Tom T. Hall's death at 85 in 2021 was by suicide, officials in his native Williamson County, Tennessee, have confirmed to reporters.The cause of death was first reported Wednesday by the website "Saving Country Music" which followed up on multiple comments posted on a year-end In Memoriam piece and confirmed the cause of death with Williamson County’s medical examiner. Rolling Stone also confirmed the coroner’s determination of suicide with county officials.The report obtained by Savin...
2023-10-1221 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- MERLE HAGGARD- "OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's Import"When I was in prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away,” Merle said. “Freedom is everything. During Vietnam there were all kinds of protests. Here were these [servicemen] going over there and dying for a cause – we don’t even know what it was really all about. And here are these young kids, that were free, bitching about it. There’s something wrong with that and with [disparaging] those poor guys. We were in a wonderful time in America and music was in a wonderful place. America was at its peak and what the he...
2023-10-0517 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - LINK WRAY- "RUMBLE" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportTHE ROCK AND ROLL SCORECARD:LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!https://www.britannica.com/biography/Link-Wray“Rumble” is the first song to implement the innovative use of power chords with distortion. The unprecedented fuzz guitar tone and undulating tremolo, combined with that controversial title, is the stuff of rock and roll legend. Even though he is the Founding Father of the rock guitar sound, and is among “Rolling Stone” Magazine's List of 100 Most Important Guitarists, Link Wray, as well as his instantly recognizable trailblazing contribution to modern rock and beyond, is not always...
2023-09-3018 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - ERNIE K. DOE- "BEATING LIKE A TOM TOM" - A NEW ORLEANS KING AND HIS "MOTHER IN LAW" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik-The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPMEven in a city known for its eccentrics, Ernie K-Doe was in another dimension. The New Orleans musician always knew — and said, loudly — that he was special. And for one week in a life of wild ups and downs, he managed to pierce the national consciousness with a chart-topping hit: 1961's "Mother in Law."The man born Ernest Kador sometimes claimed he wrote "Mother-in-Law" — but he claimed a lot of things. In fact, Allen Toussaint composed and produced the song, and, after a few unsatisfactory takes, litera...
2023-09-2318 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- RAYMOND ERNEST "CHUBBY CHECKER" EVANS- "RUNNING" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's Import"RUNNING FROM A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE"If you are unfamiliar with his 63 year body of work then you may find this statement perplexing.A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without Ernest “ Chubby Checker” Evans is not a legitimate representative of the genuine Rock and Rhythm and Blues culture it claims to embrace. Period.After "The Twist" became a worldwide phenomenon, solely due to the soulful dynamic Mr. Checker introduced, he attempted to eclipse the image that defined him.Recordings such as 1982's "Running", the 2008 treasure "Knock Down The Walls" and the 2013 vocal majes...
2023-09-1023 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"-BILLY STEWART- "SITTING IN THE PARK" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportTHE BILLY STEWART DISCOGRAPHYSingles:Chess 1625: "Billy's Blues" / "Billy's Blues"Argo 5256: "Billy's Blues" / "Billy's Blues"Okeh 4-7095: "Baby, You're My Only Love" / "Billy's Heartache" (1957 with Bo Diddley, backed by The "Marquees")Chess 1820: "Reap What You Sow" / "Fat Boy" (1962) – No. 18 R&B, No. 79 popChess 1835: "True Fine Lovin'" / "Wedding Bells" (1962)Chess 1852: "Scramble" / "Oh My, What Can the Matter Be" (1963)Chess 1868: "Strange Feeling" / "Sugar and Spice" (1963) – No. 25 R&B, No. 70 popChess 1888: "A Fat Boy Can Cry" / "Coun...
2023-09-0320 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" KENNY ROGERS and KIM CARNES- "DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH A DREAMER"- A PASSION PLAY FOR THE POPULAR MUSIC AGES - With Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik- The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's WealthThere is something so beautifully rendered in this piece of heartbreak I have always identified with.Written by husband and wife Dave Ellingson and Kim Carnes and released in March 1980, it was the first single from Rogers’ album Gideon. It's a tough three plus minutes to travel for some because the poetry informs with an unbearable truth for those paying rapt attention.When Kim cries "Put Out The Light" and Kenny counters with his plea of"Just Hold On", attaching their dramatic authenticity to the words, I Can't Keep From Crying Some...
2023-08-2830 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- "THE HULLY GULLY CRAZE FROM THE WORLD OF A THOUSAND DANCES " - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed Rhythm and Roll Event And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportThe 60s was a fun and a unique experience. You had to be there to understand. Just talk to any baby boomer who was an adolescent during the 60s and they will tell you how fun and how fortunate they were to grow up in the 1960s. School dances and the dance crazes during that period were something else. I couldn't even begin to write about or even talk about what dances are popular today. I guess I possess a generation gap. I am lost in the 60s and 70s.The first dance craze...
2023-08-2317 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- NANCY SINATRA AND LEE HAZLEWOOD- "SOME VELVET MORNING" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Rich Buckland and Bill "The Mighty Mez" Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon ItThis essay is one in a series celebrating deserving artists or albums not included on NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women.Nancy Sinatra, the force who brought "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" to life, was never meant to sing the song at all. The late Lee Hazlewood, a songwriter and producer for the likes of Duane Eddy, had written the single and intended to sing it himself. But once Sinatra heard it, she immediately had a better idea. "He said, 'It's not really a...
2023-08-1844 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- CHARLIE RICH- "MOHAIR SAM" - The Unlikely Tale Of A Jazz Artist Taken Hostage By The Country Charts - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians Rich Buckland and Captain Billy Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To Loving HistoryThe Agony, Inspiration and Exultation Of Charles Allan Rich - December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995.Never Forget To Remember Such Brilliance.Enough Said.Listen In Friends.
2023-08-1235 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - "STAY AWHILE" - Featuring The Splendid Bohemians Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportWith the single “I Only Want to Be with You” (1963), Springfield went solo and made her way into the heart of “Swinging London.” Part cartoon, part unresolvable desire, part bruised despair, she peered through heavy mascara and a stack of peroxided hair while singing with breathy sensuality. Bringing a fragile uncertainty to her cover versions of songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David that had been hits in the United States for Dionne Warwick, Springfield had a string of British hits. The commercial high point of her career, though, was the ballad “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” (19...
2023-08-0519 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This" With The Splendid Bohemians- Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik Exhale The Legend of Mary Weiss And Her Journey To Shang-Ri- La - A Walk Through The Sands of Female Rock Historyhttps://punkgirldiaries.com/mary-weiss-shangri-la/"Oh, no, Oh no, Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Remember (Walking In The Sand)". The song and it's production were the child of a music business misfit named George "Shadow" Morton" But it was the urgent hurt of Mary Weiss that has lived within me going on 55 years. I recall ruminating upon hearing her plea in 1964, " This must be what love really is". The melancholy of "Remember" surrendered to another George Morton composition in December of '64, sung as only Ma...
2023-07-3024 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- PRINCE BUSTER - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF MAN (BLUE BEAT, 1965) - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys dig deep into the Jamaican vinyl crates.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/arts/music/prince-buster-trailblazer-of-ska-dies-at-78.htmlCecil Bustamente Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 24, 1938. He performed with teenage groups in Kingston; he also became a boxer, taking the name Prince Buster.In the 1950s he began working for one of Jamaica’s top producers and sound-system disc jockeys, Coxsone Dodd. By the end of the decade he had opened a record store, Buster’s Record Shack, and was playing street parties with his own sound system, the Voice of the People. He decided to start producing songs as well as spinning them...
2023-07-2221 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR (DECCA, 1962) - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys recount the strange saga of Joe Meek's triumph and tragedy.https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/life-and-violent-death-of-a-genius-called-joe Music producer Joe Meek was never going to die a natural death.That is the verdict of Clem Cattini, drummer of The Tornados, for whom Meek produced the groundbreaking record Telstar in 1962 – the first British record to top the US singles chart – in his poky studio at 304 Holloway Road.Fans of Meek, named by weekly music magazine NME as the greatest producer of all time, are celebrating his legacy on the 50th anniversary of his death.But recognition of his creative genius has been over...
2023-07-1519 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- DEL SHANNON - HATS OFF TO LARRY (BIG TOP, 1961) - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportBorn Charles Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1934, the singer-songwriter known as Del Shannon dies by suicide on February 8, 1990. In a period when the American pop charts were dominated by cookie-cutter teen idols and novelty acts, he stood out as an all-too-rare example of an American pop star whose work reflected real originality. His heyday as a chart-friendly star in the United States may have been brief, but on the strength of his biggest hit alone he deserves to be regarded as one of rock and roll’s greatest.Legend has it that while on stage on...
2023-07-0921 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This" With The Splendid Bohemians- The Deep Musical Footprints of Arthur Alexander, Don Covay and Clarence Carter- Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Pay Homage To Three Extraordinary Soul InnovatorsThe first of the six covers that appear on Please Please Me is a mid-tempo ballad called “Anna (Go to Him),” which was written and first recorded by Arthur Alexander. Chances are that most people who hear the version sung by John Lennon have no idea who Arthur Alexander is—but the Beatles certainly knew, and so did the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan: Alexander is reportedly the only songwriter whose tunes have appeared on studio albums by those three hallowed acts. Elvis Presley recorded one of his...
2023-07-0249 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE DOUGHBOYS- "EVERYBODY KNOWS MY NAME" - CHAPTER NINETY NINE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportFervent fans of The Doughboys know their whole history, detailed on the Rock N’ Raw DVD – they first got together in ‘64 and played in various permutations through the rest of the 60’s. They gigged incessantly, won a battle-of-the-bands on Zacherle’s Disc-o-Teen TV show, were the house band at the legendary Café Wha? in New York City in the summer of ’68. They opened for every act imaginable including The Beach Boys, and released two 45’s, Rhoda Mendelbaum and Everybody Knows My Name, on Bell Records (wh...
2023-06-2533 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK'S MESMERIZED, VOL. II: THE STORY OF O & E - BILL'S PANDEMIC ERA MUSICAL RETELLING OF THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, EPISODES 4-6Mesmerized, with Bill MesnikO & E, episode 4“I Can Breathe”After a good night’s sleep and a hearty breakfast, O decides to take a hike around the property. As he meanders through the surrounding woods and fields, he can feel his body start to unwind. He feels at one with his surroundings, and grateful to be alive. Mesmerized, O & E, episode 5“Too Late”O hasn’t been checking his social media. In fact, he put the phone away altogether, and it hadn’t even been charged. It’s been a few...
2023-03-1913 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland - "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" - GEORGIE FAME - "YEH YEH" - The Boys Devote These Groove Stirring Episodes To A Famed 45 RPM "Single" ReleaseGeorgie Fame, born Clive Powell in Leigh, Lancashire, June 1943 is one of British R&B music’s founding fathers. Fame is the only British star to have scored three number one hits with his only Top 10 chart entries – ‘Yeh Yeh’ in 1964, ‘Get Away’ in 1966 and ‘Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde’ in 1967. But it’s more important to acknowledge his cultural influence. Fame popularized and educated in equal measure. The black music he championed with his band The Blue Flames brought new sounds to Swinging London and bossed venues like the Flamingo Club and the Marquee where he turned the English mod mo...
2023-02-1219 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE RASCALS "GROOVIN' " - BRAND NEW EPISODE!- Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportThe concept to which The Rascals were dedicated was, in Felix Cavaliere's words, "Marvin Gaye's voice, Ray Charles' piano, Jimmy Smith's organ, Phil Spector's production and The Beatles' writing. Put them all together and you've got what I wanted to do." A White Rock band playing Black Soul music was a new idea for Pop in 1965. "The great thing about music in the 1960s was that people were discovering there was no color barrier in the business. We were respected by the Black groups we loved as much as we respected them," noted Cornish. The Rascals' music was...
2023-01-2932 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians" - Ellie Greenwich- Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik Visit The Chapel Of Love and Other Monuments Constructed By The Magnificent Musical Architects Ellie Greenwich and Jeff BarryELLIE GREENWICH -SONGWRITER HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE- 1991Ellie Greenwich is one of the most successful songwriters of the modern pop music era. She was one of the major influences on the 60's rock and roll, a music that continues alive and well today. Her songs, which have sold in the tens of millions, have earned her 25 gold and platinum records.Born in Brooklyn, her young life was filled with singing and dancing recitals and winning first prize in a local newspaper's poetry contest. At 11, she moved to Levittown, Long Island...
2023-01-2227 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDig This With The Splendid Bohemians Presents "The Rock My Soul Hall Of Acclaim" - First Induction - MItch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels - Featuring Your "Dig This" Compadres, Rich Buckland and Bill MesnikMitch Ryder, one of the most distinctive and soulful voices to come out of Detroit’s 1960s rock music scene, will be inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame June 11, at the Music Hall in Detroit.This year’s crop of inductees also includes Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Impressions, Larry Williams, and posthumous inductees James Brown, Isaac Hayes and Mary Wells.Ryder may have fronted a rock band, but make no mistake, his soul props are solid. As a suburban teenager, he made the trek from...
2023-01-1627 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45'S - BARRY AND THE TAMERLANES - "I WONDER WHAT SHE'S DOING TONIGHT?" - Dig This with The Splendid Bohemians, featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland. The Boys Devote This Episode to an Obscure Gem by film composer Barry De Vorzon.De Vorzon founded Valiant Records in 1960.[5] During the 1960s, he signed the Association to Valiant, and produced its first single, a cover of the Bob Dylan tune "One Too Many Mornings."De Vorzon wrote "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" for the Cascades, but the group did not record it. In 1963, De Vorzon recorded the song himself, with his group Barry and the Tamerlanes. Also in 1963 he co-wrote the ballad "Shy Girl" which was recorded by the Cascades.De Vorzon wrote the tune "Girls" for Johnny Burnette. It reached No. 37 in the UK 1961 charts.
2022-12-0415 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSMesmerized with Bill Mesnik. "Summer Journey", Episode #1 IMPACT!Welcome to Mesmerized with Bill Mesnik. Presenting "Summer Journey," a 10 episode story in song. Setting the scene: It's a sweltering summer day in Los Angeles, California, and choking fires are raging all over the area. A middle aged man falls in the street from heat exhaustion, and suddenly becomes amnesiac - He is without ID, and cannot remember his name or where he lives. Throughout the ensuing episodes he will become homeless and endeavor to find his way back to himself. The first episode is entitled "Impact" and this is where we come upon him.
2022-12-0202 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSA new song by Bill Mesnik: "Stuff"Both Rich and I are in the process of moving; Rich from his Florida manse to the green hills of North Carolina, and I…. to who knows where, or when? But it’ll be soon. I have lived in my house for 24 years, and the amount of accumulation is mind boggling, and paralyzing. Since the death of my wife, Chemayne, two years ago, I’ve been unable to face the tremendous lift it’s going to take to purge a lifetime of stuff. But, it must be done, and I’m gritting my teeth. And, Rich, following the death of his mom...
2022-11-2202 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDig This- "The Moondog and Nico Quest"- Part Two- Nico- Led By The Splendid Bohemians- Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Enter The Regal Region of Mythical Musician Moondog and the Eternal Inferno Known As NicoIn October, 1966, the singer Nico began a residency at a bar in the East Village. She wore a white pantsuit and wielded a tambourine; her drawn vowels hung in the smoky air. She was still playing occasional shows with the Velvet Underground, whose first album would be released the following year. But, to Nico’s dismay, the band’s leader, Lou Reed, refused to play guitar at her solo shows, and barred the rest of the group from joining her. Onstage, she was forced to sing to a prerecorded backing from a small cassette play...
2022-11-2221 minDIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This" In Loving Memory Of Danny Kalb- September 9, 1942 - November 19, 2022- The Blues Project - "The Rock My Soul Hall Of Acclaim" - Those Hep Cats of Pop Culture, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik, Recall Some Majestic Musical Artists"Two Trains Running" - From The Blues Project Album "Projections"STEVE KATZ: It was Danny's tribute to Muddy Waters. Danny lived for Muddy Waters, which is sort of understandable given how wonderful, how monumental Muddy and some of his songs were. And that was one of his most monumental songs.AL KOOPER: We started playing it and as we became a better band it became a better arrangement. And there were amazing things in it. It was a really great arrangement. It's nothing like the Muddy Waters version.DANNY...
2022-11-2027 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- SOUL GREAT GARNET MIMMS TURNS 89 TODAY!- "CRY BABY" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportFROM OUR 2020 "DIG THIS" ARCHIVES TO WISH GARNET MIMMS A HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY!Best known for his original rendition of "Cry Baby," later a major item in Janis Joplin's repertoire, Garnet Mimms' pleading, gospel-derived intensity made him one of the earliest true soul singers. His legacy remains criminally underappreciated. Garnett Mimms was born in Ashland, West Virginia.He was brought up in Philadelphia, and began singing in church as a child.As a teenager, he was a former member of the Philadelphia-based gospel groups, the Evening Stars, the Harmonizing...
2022-11-1621 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- LESLEY GORE -"YOU DON'T OWN ME" - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's ImportLesley Sue Goldstein was born in Brooklyn in 1946 but grew up in Tenafly, NJ. She was a junior in high school when she was discovered by legendary producer Quincy Jones, who produced her 1963 hit "It's My Party" – a song which has achieved legendary status in the classic rock cannon. It remained at the top of the charts for two weeks and prompted Gore to record the Top 10 answer song "Judy's Turn to Cry". Her next two singles – "She's a Fool" and 1964’s most empowering feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me" – were also Top 10 hits. Additional Gore hits included "Maybe I...
2022-11-1315 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDig This- "The Moondog and Nico Quest" Part One- Moondog- Led By The Splendid Bohemians- Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Enter The Regal Region of Mythical Musician Moondog and the Eternal Inferno Known As Nico"In 1960s New York City lived a blind, often homeless man with a long, flowing beard, who dressed as a Viking and stood sentinel at the corner of West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. He sold his poetry and performed on custom-built percussion. His recordings are considered legendary pieces of original sound emanating from a unique artist who continues to be misunderstood and under appreciated.""Nico was used to being treated as a physical spectacle. At the Dom, Leonard Cohen was a regular guest, and he began writing songs i...
2022-11-0927 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE DEEP SOUL OF LEE MOSES - "BAD GIRL" - "Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM "Single" ReleaseLee Moses was a huge talent and if he’d had the big hit album he richly deserved, Time And Place would’ve been it. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Moses cut his teeth in the clubs of Atlanta, the ‘Motown of the South’, where he frequently performed alongside his contemporary Gladys Knight (who reportedly wanted him for the Pips, but couldn’t pin him down).It was, however, in New York in the ‘60s that Moses made his greatest bid to find the solo fame he desired. Moses began working there as a session play...
2022-11-0642 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This!!! - Arthur Lee - Join The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik, As They Venture Through the Heaven and Hell of Pop Music Lore - This Chapter Finds The Boys Hot On the Trail of The King of Love, Arthur Taylor LeeIf you’d been hanging out in Los Angeles any time in the summer of 1966, there would have been a high chance of stumbling across Arthur Lee. He might have been wearing just one shoe, or swimming trunks; he’d almost certainly be peering over a pair of psychedelic sunglasses. But then Lee could do what the hell he wanted. Barely 21 years old, he was the undisputed King Of The Sunset Strip: the most arrogant, brown-eyed, handsome man in Hollyweird. Lee and his band, Love, were helping usher in a whole new era of Californian music.
2022-11-0649 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians" - JERRY LEE LEWIS - "WOULD YOU TAKE ANOTHER CHANCE ON ME"- "PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM "Single"- Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland“JERRY LEE and THE SUN SOUND”The Sun Sound began when Sam Phillips launched his record company in February of 1952. He named it Sun Records as a sign of his perpetual optimism: a new day and a new beginning. Sam rented a small space at 706 Union Avenue for his own all-purpose studio. The label was launched amid a growing number of independent labels. In a short while Sun gained the reputation throughout Memphis as a label that treated local artists with respect and honesty. Sam provided a non-critical, spontaneous environment that invited creativity and visi...
2022-10-2842 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This Presents" - Northern Soul- Join The Splendid Bohemians, Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik, As They Venture Through the Heaven and Hell of Pop Music Lore - This Chapter Finds The Boys Hot On the Trail of The Northern Soul Movement!Before the emergence of the house and rave music scenes in the late 80's, there was Northern Soul. This phenomenon happened in the north of England where several clubs emerged where DJs played obscure American soul records. It may not sound like much now but I am guessing it meant a lot back in the mid 70's, particularly when you take into account the state of music in Britain at the time. Watch re-runs of Top of the Pops if you need proof that popular music in the UK was pretty dire on the whole at the time...
2022-10-2235 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"Dig This!"- The Saga of ESP Disk Records- PART TWO -Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Unravel the Musical Strings That Made ESP Disk Sing- This Remarkably Innovative Label Gave Birth To The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine and Intense Free Form Jazz- Dig This!Despite all the trouble that dogged the label, there’s a reason ESP-Disk’ recordings still hold listeners spellbound 50 years later. It’s as simple as the motto that was on the back of every album: “the artists alone decide.” While that may seem to be a recipe for chaos, it often worked with Stollman’s shoestring operation, usually with just the one studio engineer, Richard Alderson, who got off one of the book’s better lines: “Sun Ra is Duke Ellington on acid”.
2022-10-1524 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDig This With The Splendid Bohemians- The Saga of ESP Disk Records- Part One- Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Unravel the Musical Strings That Made ESP Disk Sing- This Remarkably Innovative Label Gave Birth To The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine and Intense JazzESP-Disk’, a record label started in New York in 1963 by Bernard Stollman, unleashed a sonic blast of free-form rock ‘n’ roll, free jazz, ur-freak-folk, poetry, and experimental music until the end of the decade, a blast that would leave a mark on the next two generations. ESP introduced the world to, among others, The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine, the Velvet Underground, and the Holy Modal Rounders, and widened the audience for Albert Ayler, Sun Ra and Pharaoh Sanders. In 2012, Jason Weiss published Always In Trouble, an oral history of the label, which has been resurrected and is again...
2022-10-1021 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSDIG THIS WITH THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS FEATURING BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND -"ONE ALBUM WONDERS"THE "ONE HIT WONDER" IS A PART OF OUR MUSICAL VOCABULARY.BUT WHAT ABOUT THE "ONE ALBUM WONDER"?HERE WE EXAMINE FOUR SUCH TREASURES.
2022-10-0255 minDIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE- "THE CIRCLE GAME" - CHAPTER NINETY NINE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's Import
2022-09-0125 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45's - ERIC BURDEN AND THE ANIMALS- MONTEREY - CHAPTER NINETY EIGHT - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A"ERIC'S MONTEREY BURDEN":https://bestclassicbands.com/eric-burdon-animals-monterey-6-5-17/
2022-08-2232 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45's - MARK KNOPFLER; DIRE STRAITS- MONEY FOR NOTHING - CHAPTER NINETY SEVEN - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM"THE MONEY FOR NOTHING VIDEO AND THE CGI REVOLUTION":https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/9kpmzp/dire-straits-money-for-nothing-video
2022-08-0726 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's" THE HOMBRES- LET IT ALL HANG OUT - CHAPTER NINETY SIX - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light U"A FAR CRY FROM MITCH MILLER":http://www.markprindle.com/hombres.htm
2022-07-3138 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - FRANK SINATRA - THAT'S LIFE - CHAPTER NINETY FIVE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Up"THE FRANK SINATRA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS":https://franksinatraschoolofthearts.org/
2022-07-2427 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - EDEN AHBEZ - NATURE BOY - CHAPTER NINETY FOUR - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- EDEN AHBEZ - "NATURE BOY" - CHAPTER NINETY FOUR - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland"THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE AND WORK OF EDEN AHBEZ":https://pleasekillme.com/nature-boy-eden-ahbez/
2022-07-1248 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBill Mesnik- Cairns - A Love SongBill Mesnik- "Cairns" - A Love Song
2022-07-0502 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - ANNETTE SNELL - FOOTPRINTS ON MY MIND - CHAPTER NINETY THREE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine a light on it."PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- ANNETTE SNELL - "FOOTPRINTS ON MY MIND" - CHAPTER NINETY THREE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -"Dashed Dreams: The Tragedy Of Annette Snell And Flight 242"://www.wabe.org/dashed
2022-06-2620 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - MICHAEL PENN - NO MYTH - CHAPTER NINETY TWO - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It."PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- MICHAEL PENN- "NO MYTH" - CHAPTER NINETY TWO - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland"THE PENN REVIVAL":https://americansongwriter.com/a-revival-michael-penn-album-interview/
2022-06-1536 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45's - SKEETER DAVIS- "THE END OF THE WORLD" - CHAPTER NINETY ONE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- SKEETER DAVIS- "THE END OF THE WORLD" - CHAPTER NINETY ONE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland"THE GREATNESS OF SKEETER DAVIS":https://www.wideopencountry.com/skeeter-davis/
2022-05-2932 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45's - FREDDY "BOOM BOOM" CANNON -"PALISADES PARK" - CHAPTER NINETY - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And"PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- FREDDY "BOOM BOOM" CANNON - "PALISADES PARK" - CHAPTER NINETY - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland" THE HISTORY OF BOOM BOOM":https://www.history-of-rock.com/freddy_cannon.htm
2022-05-2228 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSBILL MESNIK- "PRAY, PRAY FOR ARTHUR MORGAN" - A SPECIAL DIG THIS FEATUREBILL MESNIK- "PRAY, PRAY FOR ARTHUR MORGAN" - A SPECIAL DIG THIS FEATURE-This was my first video game experience, and, by all accounts, I started at the top.
2022-05-1504 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45 - NEW YORK DOLLS - PERSONALITY CRISIS - CHAPTER EIGHTY NINE - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light On It!"DOLL SELF DESTRUCTION":https://www.loudersound.com/features/new-york-dolls-appetites-for-self-destruction
2022-04-2444 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s- JANIS IAN - SOCIETY'S CHILD - CHAPTER EIGHTY EIGHT - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon it."CELEBRATING A LIFETIME IN MUSIC":https://janisian.com/
2022-04-1735 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - THE TURTLES - OUTSIDE CHANCE - CHAPTER EIGHTY SEVEN - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It."PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE TURTLES - "OUTSIDE CHANCE" - CHAPTER EIGHTY SEVEN - Dig This With The Splendid Bohemians Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland -The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM And Shine A Light Upon It's Import.
2022-04-1032 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - BOB LIND - CHERYLS GOING HOME - CHAPTER EIGHTY- With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland - The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM Single Release."PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- BOB LIND- "CHERYLS GOING HOME" - CHAPTER EIGHTY- With The Splendid Bohemians - Featuring Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland - "SOMETHING WORSE THAN LONLINESS":http://boblind.com/
2022-02-2231 min
DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANSPUT ON A STACK OF 45s - THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES - CAN I SEE YOU DANCE - CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX- With The Splendid Bohemians Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland - The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM Single Release."PUT ON A STACK OF 45's"- THE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES - "CAN I SEE YOU DANCE" - CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX- With The Splendid Bohemians Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland - The Boys Devote Each Episode To A Famed 45 RPM "Single" Release"THE DEATH OF RUSSELL SMITH":ht
2022-01-1744 min