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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS

Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik

My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let"s cut to the freakin" chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented Stone, can be revealed with ultimate clarity through the ultra neurotic engagements of Music, Art, Literature, Film, Poetry and a good Pastrami sandwich. Why would any sane human spend so must time on a

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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE"...

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2025/03/29

When it comes to infidelity: can we have our cake and eat it too? In the following two songs, written by the incomparable Don Covay, this theme is explored. The two men narrating these tales of inconstancy are in turmoil - one cheater feels guilty, while the other betrayer is suffering from hurt pride - because his woman is playing the same game. The soulful bard who created these parables of marital strife covers the gamut here: in the first you’ll hear the voice of the creator himself...

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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" -NEW...

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2025/03/23

Right here, squaring off, from opposite sides of the Atlantic, we present: Dueling tag-teams of zaniness — wearing fanciful disguises, winking at traditional forms, and tweeting in a birdlike falsetto… Good stuff! BEDAZZLED The Faustian satire Bedazzled, created by genius comedian Peter Cook (who plays the Devil trying to bargain for souls), makes good use of the talents of his Chaplin-esque comedy partner, Dudley Moore (who you might remember from the hit films Ten and Arthur), who plays the...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: BIG...

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2025/03/17

From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobate ways had also been domesticated by love. And, another harmonic convergence: I had even spent a year in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack Yellen, the Jewish-Polish immigrant who wrote these Jazz-age lyrics, also penned Happy Days are Here Again, and Ain...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "DAMAGE CONTROL"- THE BOYS...

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2025/03/12

"GRIEVING IN THE DOLLS HOUSE" David Johansen passed away peacefully at home on February 28, holding the hands of his wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, in the sunlight surrounded by music and flowers. After a decade of profoundly compromised health he died at the age of 75. David and his family were deeply moved by the outpouring of love and support they’ve experienced recently as the result of having gone public with their challenges. He was thankful that he had a chanc...

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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" -NEW...

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2025/03/08

DOUBLE TROUBLE: CINDY LAUPER AND MILEY CYRUS Two towering, Olympian female voices, from different generations, aligning here to honestly testify about their love damaged hearts. They describe world’s of hurt, confusion, and finally, triumph in the face of loss. Miley Cyrus “Heart of Glass” I love Miley Cyrus - not only because she carries the flag of peace, love, and musical tradition with her Happy Hippie Foundation, and, at the same time, continues to reinvent herself and confound exp...

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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" -NEW...

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2025/03/01

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back for more DOUBLE TROUBLE Let’s talk about dreams…. Dreams can be intoxicatingly erotic; they can be filled with loss and longing; you might be falling, trapped in an confusing maze, or carried across bodies of water in a leaky boat. I often have the actor’s nightmare - where I’m about to go onstage, but I don’t know my lines and I don’t even know which play it is. These are dreams from which I wake up in a cold sweat. SUMMER WINE by Nancy Sinatra ...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF...

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2025/02/26

Today's Affirmation: "She Let's Me Watch Her Mom and Pop Fight" Writers: N. Blagman*, S. Bobrick Although she isn't much to look at, And she isn't very bright. I love her, I love her, Oh boy how I love her 'Cuz she let's me watch her mom and pop fight. To see a lamp go through the window And watch them kick and scratch and bite. I love her, I love her, Oh boy how I love her 'Cuz she lets me watch her mom and pop fight. And Friday night, It's something wonderful to see When her pop comes hom...

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2025/02/22

Lennon and McCartney eloquently recited an affirmation stating that In My Life I Loved Them All. The affection for certain artists and the melodic poetry they injected into our souls has remained in our wiring through the good, the bad and the uncertain times of our lives. One beloved gentleman we cherish was known as Arthur Alexander. Known as June to his closest companions, he was a one of a kind country-soul songwriter and singer. It can easily be said that he invented the genre. The fifth...

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A SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY TWO-FER SPECIAL FROM BILL...

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2025/02/13

Hello Young Lovers! Welcome to a special Saint Valentine’s Day TWOFER from The Splendid Bohemians: Today we’re featuring two enchanting, encyclopedic British song stylists: Anne Briggs and Elvis Costello. First up: the majestic Ms. Briggs. SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR by Anne Briggs (Topic, 1963) Barefoot and bedraggled, Anne Briggs became the muse of the British Traditional Folk Boom in the early nineteen sixties. Her short performance career of mystical magic was retired at age 27, leaving be...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "ALAN FREED'S BOULEVARD OF...

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2025/02/10

“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name,” Freed once said. “It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It’s the rhythm that gets to the kids – they’re starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.” HISTORICAL ALAN FREED MOMENTS: Freed moved to WINS in New York in 1954 where his late night radio show became known as Alan Freed's Rock ’n’ Roll Party. His popularity was immediate and so was the criticism. In July 1...

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"IT IS THE EVENING OF A LEGEND" - MARIANNE EVELYN...

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2025/01/31

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull has boarded The Mystery Train at 78. In the 70's she was anorexic, homeless and addicted to heroin. At the time of her passing she had acquired the status of legend. Marianne was a genuine, brilliant artist in a sea of impostors. Sleep Well in that ocean you struggled so hard to master regardless of the merciless tears that passed by.- Rich Buckland

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SHE...

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2025/01/26

Henry St. Claire Fredericks, Jr., aka Taj Mahal is 82 years of age, and like that monument in Agra, he stands as an ageless edifice of blues - rock grace. On his latest recording he croons in that familiar rasp: “I’m too young to be this old,” and there’s no denying the truth of that declaration. As the years have passed, it’s gratifying to contemplate that, 60 years ago, Taj and Ry Cooder combined forces in the seminal, interracial rock group The Rising Sons, then went their separate ways to...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE FIRE AND SOUL REVUE"- A ...

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2025/01/16

PLEASE JOIN US AT DIG THIS!!!!! https://www.facebook.com/digthiswiththesplendidbohos/A MESSAGE FROM STAX RECORDS PRODUCER, SONGWRITER AND VOCALIST DAVID PORTER:To say I am saddened about the loss of Sam Moore would be an understatement. You see, it was the finality of the last living connection I had to God’s gift to all of our careers.The experiences we had with each other changed each of our lives in amazing ways. Sam will always be remembered because of what he gave out of his heart and sp...

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2025/01/16

This recording, composed and performed by the criminally underestimated Rick Nelson and his right-hand man James Burton, is a tone poem of psychedelic disorientation. It lopes along, taking its sweet time, floating in mid-air, then seeps out through the singer’s enthralled brain in a sensual vortex. It reminds me of my virgin night of acid enlightenment, when I crawled across my cousin’s floor, following the swirling carpet patterns, whispering: “Oh, Wow,” over and over again.The tune feature...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " THE HIGHWAY TO A COMPLETE...

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2025/01/07

Lucasfilm has about a dozen Star Wars movies in various stages of development. One of them is a prequel from James Mangold that will tell the origins of the Force, the mysterious energy field created by life that binds the Star Wars galaxy together.In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Mangold opened up about what convinced him to make a Star Wars movie for Lucasfilm, sharing that "the really important aspects [were] the freedom to make something new." Mangold, who is co-writing the screenplay...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "FAMOUS LAST WORDS- OUR NEW...

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2024/12/31

AT THE HOTEL BOHEMIA WE BELIEVE YOU CAN'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.2025 COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN.CAN YOU DIG IT? Drummer Buddy Rich died after surgery in 1987. As he was being prepped for surgery, a nurse asked him, “Is there anything you can’t take?” Rich replied, “Yeah, country music.”Lucky Luciano was a mob leader who helped the U.S. work with the Sicilian Mafia during World War II in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. His last words wer...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: YUMMY...

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2024/12/28

This cut, from Julie London’s album of the same name, became a camp classic. It’s undeniably bawdy, with the torch songstress purring like a mod Mae West, with tongue solidly in cheek. The original, generated by neutered, pre-fab bobble heads, The Ohio Express, is a prepubescent rocker, lacking any lubriciousness whatsoever, but, emanating from Julie’s throat it’s an open invitation to bed, or a post-coital pillow declaration.Julie is Her Name, her first album, was released in 1955, and YUMMY...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS-"A PERSONAL CHRISTMAS...

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2024/12/23

1) EVIL WEINER- ALL AROUND THE WORLD 2) AIMEE MANN AND MICHAEL PENN- CHRISTMASTIME 3) CHRISTY MOORE- FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK4) FRANK SINATRA- CHRISTMAS SEALS PUBLIC SERVICE SPOT & I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS5) GEORGE JONES- LONELY CHRISTMAS CALL6) MELVIS - I WANT TO GET LAID ON CHRISTMAS DAY - (1958)7) MABEL SCOTT- BOOGIE WOOGIE SANTA ( 1955)8) PORKY PIG- BLUE CHRISTMAS 9)THE RAMONES- I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT- 10) STAN FREBERG- I'M GETTING NUTTIN' FOR CHRISTMAS (1955)1...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SOME...

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2024/12/22

Dedicated to Chemayne Halverson (1/6/1967-12/23/2020)This is a haunting song by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which expresses the indefinable mysteries of romantic love. An interesting word I learned which describes this feeling is “limerence,” which the Oxford dictionary defines as “the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily…” This revelatory gnosis occurred to me quite early, when I played the character of Emile de Becque, the aging p...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS- " A BEATSVILLE CHRISTMAS"...

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2024/12/14

A BEATSVILLE CHRISTMAS- PART ONE1) Christmas In Jail- The Youngsters- 19562) Yulesville- Edd "Kookie" Burns - 19593) Pancho Claus- Jose Gonzales-Gonzales- 19644) Surfing Santa- The Ramblers- 1964

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