[JennysCool]

Hope things are thawing your way, too.

[the invisib1e hand]

ironically, one never quite feels how alone one is (if, in fact he is) unless he is surrounded by multitudes who will forever be strangers.

[JennysCool]

A completely arbitrary surf ping.

Btw, didn't one of you guys predict "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" would win the Grammy? Got any lottery tips?

[Publius]

"New York's a Lonely Town" was released in 1964 but held on in the top twenty until early 1965. The Trade Winds were a bunch of pick-up studio musicians that hung around a man whose last name was Poncia and the somewhat legendary Vince Andreoli (later shortened to Anders), and figures such as producers Bones Howe and Shadow Morton. (I believe the Shangri-las came out of the same shop, as did the Dixie Cups.)

KRLA, then a major rock station in LA, had a special version cut where the boys sang "and there's no KRLA" underneath the main vocal line. Some Angelenos of a certain age still think those words are part of the song.

Vince Anders, as he later styled himself, tried a number of things in the later Sixties, but he never made it on a major scale.

[tame]

Hi, there, JC :o)

Brian gets a grammy! Long overdue :o)

[Fiji Hill]

Cooper’s Beach in New York has been listed as the best beach in the USA—so it looks like the Trade Winds do have a place to surf, after all.