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Author: Jeff Gemmill

I am not old, but middle-aged; not grey, though too many hairs are fading that way; and not feline, but a decidedly flawed human. I’m a middle-aged white guy with catholic tastes, in other words, a product of my times but not a prisoner of them. (While I subscribe to the George Santayana aphorism that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” I also believe that those who only look in the rearview mirror are sure to drift into the median strip.) I launched this blog as occasional essays on the Hatboro-Horsham Patch in February 2012 and moved it to Wordpress.com in the summer of 2014, when it became a weekend endeavor. As the tag line indicates, it’s a mix of music reviews, reminisces and related ephemera. Years long ago, I wrote about TV for the black-and-white sections of the Cable Guide, Total TV, See and TV GUIDE magazines; I also oversaw the original Old Grey Cat website (1997-2006), primarily about Neil Young’s oeuvre, and co-founded a short-lived ‘zine, Da Boot, about collector CDs. I can be reached at oldgreycat [at] yahoo [dot] com.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball

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  • Posted on March 10, 2012September 6, 2021

Of High Fidelity, Mix Tapes & Jessie Baylin

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  • Posted on February 28, 2012September 6, 2021

Rumer’s Seasons of My Soul

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  • Posted on December 30, 2010August 15, 2021

Albums of the Year, 2010

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  • Posted on December 31, 2008September 6, 2021

Albums of the Year, 2008

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In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, I often found myself with friends playing variations of football or baseball in the street up from my house, or basketball in a driveway or at the park. A radio tuned to a Top 40 station provided the soundtrack to most of those games. It was rare, in that timespan, for an #OliviaNewtonJohn song not to be among the featured tracks. Check out these stats: From 1978 and “You’re the One That I Want,” the hit Grease duet with John Travolta, through 1983 and “Twist of Fate” (from her Two of a Kind movie reunion with the former Danny Zuko), she scored 13 Top 20 hits, including three No. 1s.
@lucykaplansky is in the house! (Well, her CD is.) #newrelease #folkmusic
#NeilYoung on today’s #Zoom call - a perk for #NeilYoungArchives patrons.
#TicketMaster purgatory.
The only special purrsecutor that matters… #cats #catsofinstagram
40 years ago this month, @heartofficial graced the cover of Record magazine. #MusicandMemories #YearsLongAgo #Heart #AnnWilson #NancyWilson
Me and Tyler the #Cat. #catsofinstagram
On this date in 2015, June 21st, we had tickets to see #PaulMcCartney at the Wells Fargo barn in South Philly, but Diane was under the weather. So I took my mom! She was 75 at the time, not a McCartney/Beatles fan per se, though she remembered seeing them on Ed Sullivan, but a McCartney/Beatles fan by osmosis (when I was a kid, everyone in the house usually heard what I played). She loved the show, though she thought it a tad loud.

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