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  I must confess that prior to the red-hot July of 1964, I’d never ever heard anything quite like Tommy Morgan’s harmonica solo on “The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)” …Dylan vinyl having not yet infiltrated my household, you understand. Two summers later, the 66-cent “Popsicle” 45 quickly became a most refreshing schoolyard treat while, […]

  There’s Brian Wilson and his Beach Boys, most obviously. Then there were Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young, the Eagles, and my own personal favorites the Turtles, Byrds, Mothers of Invention and possibly even those Runaways. Not to mention Lindsey Buckingham’s Big Mac. However, whenever the songs and stories of California are sung and […]