Pendleton Sounds

I heard a clip of "God Only Knows" this morning and realized that the alliteration of "so sure" in the line "I'...

I listened to The Very Best of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons  yester-day and was finally able to investigate and confirm something I...

A couple days ago, I was thinking about songs that deal with prison and realized that to some degree, the regularity of a recurring rhyme sc...

During my nightly keyboard practice yester-day, I happened to play an E minor chord with an electric piano sound, was reminded of the "...

In the line "I can see ev'rything below" in "Airplane," the three syllables of "ev'rything" are sung t...

A few years ago , I noted that under the line "I've given up on schemes 'cause ev'ry one fell through" in "Just O...

Yester-day, I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of 15 Big Ones and Love You (because I've been reading about Love You in ...

Yester-day, I was thinking about "Drive-In," specifically the line "A big, buttered popcorn and a extra large coke."  To...

I listened to The Very Best of the Coasters yester-day, specifically to hear "Riot in Cell Block #9" because 2 July is the date m...

Last week, I figured out the chords for "Take a Load off Your Feet" and noticed some significance in the progression under the lin...

I recently listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of Smiley Smile and Wild Honey  and noticed in "Wind Chimes" what might ...

Yester-day, I read Roger McGuinn's account in The Beach Boys (p. 337) of his writing "Ding Dang" with Brian Wilson.  He quote...