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 reprise of the very first piece in my long-running series The Greatest Record Ever Made!, a celebration of "Baby Blue" by Badfinger.
You know the mantra by now: an infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. I've written a ton of GREM! pieces, about everyone from the Ramones to Chuck Berry to Dusty Springfield, plus Eytan Mirsky, the Drifters, Mannix, the Rare Breed, the Kinks, Material Issue, the Who, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Flashcubes, Stevie Wonder, the Monkees, the Beatles, and more. I still hope to turn this concept into a book. Some day. In the mean time, this week's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio will devote its entire playlist to tracks given their own chapters in my long-threatened book, The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).
That's the greatest. Wanna know the name of my all-time # 1 favorite track? It's a song I heard on the radio when I was in middle school, when a DJ promised me, "These guys sound like the Beatles!," and delivered on that promise. The greatest record ever made! "Baby Blue" by Badfinger is the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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