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Thanks to Henning Küppers for introducing me to John Townley and Jay Ungar. There will be radio special with Jay Ungar‘s music soon. For John Townley: Blog Jay Ungar was born (1946) in the Bronx and Greenwich Village was his home turf during his youth in the 60s. It‘s there where he met John Townley,…

Endlose Straßen war eines der Lieblingslieder der Kölner Edelweißpiraten. Geschrieben wurde es von Max Stahl aus Hückeswagen.  Bei einer Gedenkstunde der Gertrud Koch Gesamtschule in Troisdorf zum 5. Todestag der Edelweißpiratin Gertrud Koch am Edelweißpiratenmahnmal in Köln-Ehrenfeld wurde es von  Ranselmann jun neu interpretiert: Der Autor des Liedes Max Stahl wurde am 7. März 1922 geboren….

Thanks to Henning Küppers for introducing me to John Townley and Jay Ungar. Much of the information on John Townley I got from an interview he gave to „It‘s Psychedelic, Baby“ https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2021/03/ocean-a-lost-recording-of-the-family-of-apostolic-john-townley-interview.html John Townley only made a few solo LPs and there are long gaps between them (Discogs lists only his latest and leaves the…

Allthough there are some rather explicit lyrics you won‘t find too many songs by white country artists that deal with Roosevelt‘s New Deal. New Deal is regarded as the main (some may say only) period in US history where left ideas prevailed and dominated the State economy strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal So it‘s quite interesting how the…

People tend to declare disasters as natural, not made by human beings. But even great technical catastrophes like Tschernobyl and Fukushima only happened because persons in charge acted wrong, made mistakes – some knowing and willingly and some not. And the reasons for these failures are greed on the one hand and poverty on the…

Eine Bestandsaufnahme. 1. Thüringen Politische Ereignisse sind oft nicht mehr so wichtig wie die anschließende mediale Aufbereitung. Das gilt z.T. auch für die Wahl des FDP-Mannes Kemmerich zum Ministerpräsidenten von Thüringen mit Stimmen der AfD. (Das Beitragsbild stammt von Extra drei) Christian Lindner dazu in seiner ersten Stellungnahme: FDP-Chef Christian Lindner hat Thomas Kemmerich verteidigt….

In my previous posting I told about Lady Maisery and the three women that make up the band: https://norbert-knape.de/?p=309 That was kind of a preparation for my radio special. In this posting I filed up the songs I intend to play and some about them (not in my own words but taken from intrenet sites…