In memory of Alex Chilton, who died yesterday at the age of 59. Chilton was the lead singer of The Box Tops, who had a #1 hit with “The Letter” in 1967, when he was only 17 years old. He joined the power-pop group Big Star in the early 70s, and while you may be less familiar with their output, their song “In The Street” was later used as the theme song for That 70’s Show.

The Box Tops – The Letter
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Spyro Gyra perform “Nu Sungo” on Arsenio Hall’s show sometime in 1987. 80s fusion, baby!

Harrison Ford: “It’s not about performance as much as it is about storytelling.”

As a lifelong fan of the Caped Crusader, I got a big laugh out of this:

Thanks to Saturday Morning Breakfast for this.

From a 1961 broadcast of Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual series, here’s The Dave Brubeck Quartet doing Brubeck’s legendary 5/4 composition “Take Five.”

Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on saxophone, Gene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums. Enjoy.

Here’s a link to this week’s edition of “The Report with Tom Kephart,” the local news show I host each week for the Marine City/St. Clair area. It also appears on CTV Channel 6 at 1:00, 5:00 and 9:00 a.m. and p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

Paul Dingeman is on vacation for the next couple weeks, so I also hosted the “FOCUS” interview program this week. Here’s a link to that show.