Author: Thomas Newman

Once upon a time, ice was a valuable thing. It enabled people to preserve food and drinks. However, the same properties that let it do so meant it couldn’t exist save under limited circumstances most…

William Neal Browder began recording music under the name “Brian Stacy.” Unfortunately, none of his records were successful, but he gained a bit of fame with “High School Days.” Browder retreated to work behind the…

Manfred was a pioneering English rock band created in 1962. The name Manfred Mann was derived from the keyboardist Manfred Mann. He later went on and formed the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band which worked as…

Ian Tyson was a Canadian singer-songwriter whose career stretched longer than six decades. He and his then-wife, Sylvia, performed as a duo from 1959 to 1975. However, that partnership concluded with their amicable divorce, which…

For several years in the early 1980s, the Stray Cats dominated the world of rock and roll, giving us Top Ten hits like Stray Cat Strut and Rock this Town. MTV could not get enough…

Allan Copelon, better known as Allan Sherman, is a man who will never be forgotten due to his way of bringing joy to anyone who listens to him. He was so talented with words that…

Donny Osmond is an American singer, dancer, actor, and television host who has been performing since 1963. He has released over 50 studio albums and has sold over 45 million records worldwide. Osmond is known…

Johnnie Ray was an American artist active from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. However, he didn’t enjoy uninterrupted success throughout his career. Instead, he peaked in the United States in the 1950s before…

Humans have a long relationship with pigs. After all, we domesticated them in prehistoric times. Since then, we have brought them worldwide, much to the detriment of more than one native ecosystem. Still, pigs are…