Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a look back at the 1979 album Elevator by The Rollers (formerly The Bay City Rollers).
This piece was my third and final entry for Lost In The Grooves, a 2005 book edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay. Kim and David used my bits about Subterranean Jungle by The Ramones and Tell America by Fools Face, but weren't interested in my Rollers entry. They never saw the finished Rollers piece, which I completed (based on memory of the original thumbnail submission) for this blog in 2016.
The Lost In The Grooves concept--a capricious guide to the music you missed--is engaging and durable. As music fans, we have no shortage of sounds we think deserve wider acclaim and a larger audience. I'm kicking around the idea of continuing the concept as a sporadic series on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), with each entry accompanied by an acknowledgement of Cooper and Smay. I would need a different series title--Lost In The Grooves belongs to Kim and David--but I'll come up with an appropriate name if I decide to pursue this.
In the mean time, here's a look at the end of the beginning, the final piece of my original Lost In The Grooves triumvirate. Elevator by The Rollers provides the subject for the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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