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Blog Entries by Michael Sigman from 12/2012

Pete Bennett Promoted Elvis, Beatles, Stones -- and Pete Bennett

| Posted 12.03.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Itunes, The Who, Richard Nixon, Phil Spector, Frank Sinatra, Rolling Stones, Spotify, Elvis Presley, The Pope, James Brown, Pete Bennett, Dave DeBusschere, Abkco, Fifty News

Pete became a sort of self-parody of the obnoxious promotion man. He photo-bombed so many stars -- mostly with their blessings but sometimes as a vaguely-positioned background figure -- that his photo op with the Pope led some to ask, "Who's that with Pete?"

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The Essential Music -- and Art -- of The Golden Age of Vinyl

| Posted 12.07.2012 | Fifty
Read More: The Rolling Stones, Vashti Bunyan, The Clash, Velvet Underground, The Move, Nels Cline, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, The Kinks, Alexander Spence, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Can, The Incredible String Band, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Nico, AM Records, Jeff Gold, Fifty News

Five years after the "Golden Age of Vinyl" came to a close, the MTV invasion established the dominance of the music video. A few years later came CDs, with their tiny art and microscopic liner notes. The generation of great art representing great music was over.

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Facebook Serendipity, a Christmas Album and More, Much More

| Posted 12.13.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Dengue Fever, Mills Music, Eddie Fisher, Robert Maxwell, Louis Prima, Jack Mills, Marty Mills, Brill Building, Lena Horne, Ernie-Kovacs, Jerry Keller, Cab Calloway, Edie Adams, Irving Mills, Carl Sigman, Video, Fifty News

I recently Facebook-friended Josh Mills, who reciprocated right away -- because, I assumed, he remembered me fondly from many years ago when we were both music journalists.

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Note to Pundints: Block Those Mispronounciations

| Posted 12.21.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Malapropisms, Linguistics, Mispronunciation, Nuclear-Pronunciation, Library, Pundits, Christmas, Comedy News

It's no longer hyperbowlic to say that we must stop the esculation of verbage malpractice from overpaid media pundints who engage in repeated mispronounciations. Too off ten, these incidences are allowed to perculate unchallenged in commentaries and innerviews.

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This New Year's, Resolve to Give Yourself a Break

| Posted 12.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: New Year's Resolutions, New Year's 2012, New Years 2013, 2013 Resolutions, New Year's Resolution, New Year's 2013, New Year, New Year 2013, Health New Year, New Year Resolution, Healthy New Year, 2013 Resolution, New Year's, Video, Healthy Living News

Bite-sized goals are easier to digest. Climbing stairs instead of taking elevators or choosing a "bad" parking space to take a brisk walk might not please your aerobics trainer, but the health benefits will be substantial.

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