You can rely on the old man’s money

"Rich Girl" is a song by popular music duo Hall & Oates, made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates, who specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles which they dubbed "Rock and Soul”, and whom achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. On March 26th, 1977, Rich Girl became their first (of six) number one singles on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us.

The song's lyrics are about a spoiled woman who can rely on her parents' money to do whatever she wants. The song was rumoured to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. "But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl," Hall told Rolling Stone.

Rich Girl was also covered by Nina Simone on her 1978 LP Baltimore. Naturally.

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Happy 40th Birthday, Keith!

For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow...

Have a great one, Keith old boy!

She's trying to make a devil out of me

"Black Magic Woman" is a song written by British blues-rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green, and first appeared as a Fleetwood Mac single in various countries in 1968 and subsequently on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac compilation albums English Rose (US) and The Pious Bird Of Good Omen (UK). It became a classic hit by Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist Carlos Santana in 1970, reaching #4 in the U.S. charts, after appearing on their Abraxas album, and has since become more closely associated with Santana than Fleetwood Mac.

Although not nearly as popular as Santana's arrangement two years later, "Black Magic Woman" nevertheless became a fairly popular blues-rock hit for Fleetwood Mac, peaking at #37 in the UK Singles Chart.

Santana’s version of the song, whose full title is "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen," was adapted from Gabor Szabo's 1967 "Gypsy Queen," a mix of jazz, Hungarian folk and Latin rhythms, and Fleetwood Mac's own "Black Magic Woman," and recorded in 1970. The song became one of Carlos Santana's staples and arguably his most popular song, along with "Oye Como Va." Abraxas reached #1 on the charts and hit quadruple platinum in 1986, partially thanks to "Black Magic Woman."

A highly regarded figure in the British blues movement, Peter Green inspired B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Green's playing was marked with a distinctive keen vibrato and economy of style, as well as a unique out of phase sound from his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.

He gives us the cold sweats too. Brrr…

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Somewhere deep inside

"Better Be Home Soon" is a 1988 song by Australian rock group Crowded House. Written by the band’s New Zealander musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn, the song was released as a single in July 1988 by Capitol Records. The song appeared on the album Temple of Low Men, which was also released in July 1988.

"Better Be Home Soon" was performed by Crowded House in their 1996 charity performance Farewell to the World. As a song commonly performed by the band, this was to be expected, however the end of this version featured a country or polka style double-time feeling at the end, possibly in joking retort to some criticisms of the song when initially released that it was a bit "country-ish".

What’s wrong with “country-ish” anyway?

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Something from our annals

(From left) The Don, Double D(ragon) Deyna, ‘Little’ Jon

Here’s an old photo we found in the back of Deyna’s couch during his recent house-moving. My, what a difference a year makes. Where has the time gone…

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No kid, man

Keith is back!

Urban update

Keith crashed his new harley. Nicole's fine.

Don't you?

"You're So Vain" is a song written and performed in 1972 by Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning 1970s American songwriter and singer Carly Simon.

The song is a sarcastic profile of a self-absorbed lover, and was a number-one hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in early 1973, and also spending two weeks at the top of the Adult Contemporary chart, her first #1 song on either chart. It also spawned what many fans consider to be the biggest musical mystery of the era, there still being much debate over who exactly the song is about. Popular guesses on the subject include Mick Jagger (who sang uncredited backing vocals on the song), Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson (with whom Carly had s brief relationship), unfaithful fiancé William Donaldson, and Simon's ex-husband, James Taylor, and, and, and...

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It’s good to be home.