Hot Trax '71: Freda Payne; Neil Diamond; The Stylistics, and more!

New singles on the charts 50 years ago this week. 

Freda Payne - Bring the Boys Home

The Grass Roots - Sooner or Later

Neil Diamond - Done to Soon

Graham Nash - Chicago

James Taylor - You've Got a Friend

Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Don't Want to Do Wrong

Mandrill - Mandrill

Van Morrison - Call Me Up in Dreamland

The Stylistics - Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)

Listen to the Hot Trax '71 playlist:

"Star Trek to Superheroes": A video tour through the 1976 Mego toy catalog

This is prime Mego for me. I had a bunch of this stuff.

Pop Culture Roundup: Peanuts; Batman; Middle Earth!


ITEM! A new Peanuts documentary, "Who Are You, Charlie Brown?," is coming to Apple TV+ June 25.

ITEM! Michael Keaton is reprising his role as Batman (a multi-universal Batman, anyhow) in the upcoming Flash feature film, which features a different Flash from the TV series (soon, civilians will be as well-schooled in parallel worlds as comics fans).

ITEM! A look at Tolkien's hand-drawn maps of Middle Earth.

Pop Pic: Shazam!

 


Pop Pics: Raquel Welch and Tom Jones

Video Find: Jimmy Dean and the Muppets on "The Ed Sullivan Show," 1967

New music out this week: Art Blakey; Liz Phair; Crowded House, more!

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Pop Culture Roundup: Sandman, Sabrina, psychedelia and more!

ITEM! Neil Gaiman weighs in on the casting of the Sandman TV series and tells newbies where to start when it comes to reading the comic book version.

ITEM! An exploration of psychedelic easy listening music.

ITEM! Check out the first Sabrina: The Teen-Age Witch story, told via the original comic book art pages.

Pop Pic: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke

Pop Culture Roundup: Kiss; Scarlet Witch; Dark Horse games!


ITEM! Scarlet Witch's accent will return in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."

ITEM! Shout it out loud: A Kiss documentary is in the works.

ITEM! Dark Horse Comics is starting a games and digital division.