Author: Carey Budnick

New Wave Pop Reggae Video 

MTV Killed the VIDEOSTAR

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Carey Budnick 2 Comments 999, AC/DC, Bad Manners, Barbara Jones, Body Talk, Buggles, Can’t Get Enough Of You, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Donna Summer, Duran Duran, Eddy Grant, Elvis Costello, Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime, Feels Like I’m In Love, Genesis, Hanging Around, Hazel O’Connor, Human League, Imagination, In And Out Of Love, In The Air Tonight, Intuition, Japan, Johnny And Mary, Just Can’t Get Enough, Just When I Need You Most, Kelly Marie, Kiki Dee, Kim Wilde, Korgis, Leo Sayer, Linx, My Simple Heart, No Reply At All, Obsessed, Olivia Newton-John, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Queen, Quiet Life, Robert Palmer, Sky, Star, Stevie Nicks, The Three Degrees, Thunder In My Heart, Tina Turner, Toccata, Tunnel Of Love, Video Killed The Radio Star, VIDEOSTARS, Walking In The Sunshine, Whitney Houston

An inside look at the world’s very first music compilation for video cassette

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Disco Pop 

Winner Take All: Inside ABBA’s Final Years

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Carey Budnick 1 Comment 1976, ABBA, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, CBS Records

One former music exec reflects on the significance of his favorite song by the Swedish supergroup

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Blues Festivals Folk Psychedelics Rock 

I Met Nina Simone and Richie Havens in 1978 for Dinner, Part Two

October 20, 2019November 4, 2019 Carey Budnick 1 Comment 1968, 1969, Bill Cosby, Buffy Saint-Marie, Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Chuck Berry, Country Joe & The Fish, Dick Gregory, Flatt & Scruggs, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Ian & Sylvia, Iron Butterfly, James Cotton Blues Band, Joan Rivers, Joni Mitchell, Jose Feliciano, Jr Walker & The All-Stars, Lenny Bruce, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Richard Pryor, Richie Havens, Rodney Dangerfield, Steppenwolf, Sweet Inspirations, The Boxtops, The Grassroots, The Joe Tex Revue, The Turtles, Woodstock

Further observations at the intersection of two American music giants

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Blues Folk jazz Music Journalism 

I Met Nina Simone and Richie Havens in 1978 for Dinner, Part One

August 22, 2019August 23, 2019 Carey Budnick 2 Comments Colpix, Elektra, Israel, Nina Simone, Nina Simone and Richie Havens, Nina Simone biography, Nina Simone's career, Philips Records, Richie Havens, Tel Aviv, Woodstock, Zoe Saldana

Observations at the intersection of two American music giants

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Pop Rock 

Met The Beatles

May 8, 2019May 9, 2019 Carey Budnick 2 Comments 1964, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

I greeted The Fab Four when they arrived in America in 1964

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