Is it odd that when someone mentions New York rock 'n' roll, I don't first think #VelvetUnderground, or #Ramones, or even #SonicYouth - I think New Jersey's #TheRascals? Led by #falsetto-king #FelixCavaliere, their street corner #BlueEyedSoul is so evocative, I'm immediately transported down some hot, crowded avenue in the NYC-of-my-imagination.
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More Than Forty Years
Tony Gloeggler
#Poetry #TonyGloeggler #ThimbleLiteraryMagazine #TonyHoagland #Poem #TheRascals #Music #Fan #JGeils #BobDylan #BruceSpringsteen #BrianWilson #JoshRitter #JamesMcMurtry #NekoCase #AhmadJamal #SonnyRollins #TheloniousMonk #Jazz #Writing
https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2026/02/07/more-than-forty-years/
Once Upon a Dream is the fourth studio album by the rock band the Rascals, released February 19, 1968.
In his review for Allmusic, music critic Thom Jurek, who highly praised the album, noted the influence of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and wrote that the Rascals "put their own spin on it by adding their trademark blue-eyed soul and jazz influences to the mix of psychedelia... All details aside, though, a listen to this platter is startling. Its sophisticated orchestral and vocal arrangements are remarkable even in the 21st century... It's an under-celebrated masterpiece of the psychedelic era and belongs next to Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's on the shelf because it is easily as sophisticated, and once heard in its entirety, can never be forgotten." - Wikipedia
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