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 another chapter from my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), this time casting its spotlight on "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" by Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers.
An infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. That's the central premise of my GREM! book, a labor of love which I hope you'll get to read some day. The book does not have a current path to publication, but it ain't dead yet. I continue to work on it, even as I'm working on a different book that is planned for publication, presumably in late 2022.
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| My current secret book project has absolutely nothing to do with comic books. |
In the mean time, I'm still tweaking the GREM! book's contents with the intent to, y'know, make it a book. Its most recent (and now partially obsolete) Table of Contents was seen here, and a description of its current pause was posted here. I've suspended the weekly GREM! video series on my YouTube channel, though it may resume when the book starts moving forward again. That series included a video about Melanie.
I'll be posting an updated GREM! book Table of Contents in the near future. And you'll be hearing some of the songs from that Table of Contents within a few weeks on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. Oh! This very week on TIRnRR, you'll be hearing Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers as they urge us to raise the candles high.
The greatest record ever made? One of an infinite number, taking its own sublime turn. "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)," is the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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