1.0 link 156996 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheila-weller/post_263_b_156996.html The headline on last night's news story -- BOB DYLAN VILLIAN: WILLIAM ZANTZINGER DIES -- got me.

Reading those words, I was transported back to my teenage bedroom in West L.A., where, in the mid-'60s, my sister Lizzie and I struggled to out-do each other in climbing out of the bourgeoise morass of complacency of a country too-slowly turning.

To me, Ray and Aretha (and Reverend James Cleveland with his Voices of Tabernacle's "The Love Of...

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