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The Tomita Planets

The Tomita Planets

  Isao Tomita’s ‘Planets’ from 1976 takes Holst’s symphonic work and puts it into the electronic realm. Most of Tomita’s albums have been pretty much out of print for years, except a few on RCA released in the 1990’s that have stayed around. Fortunately ‘The Tomita Planets’ is still available, and also re-released and remade too! There are several releases of the Planets, and all are different in format or actual performance. Took a while, but figured out the versions…

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Tune In, Turn On, Talknet, We Care

Tune In, Turn On, Talknet, We Care

Tune In, Turn On, Talknet, We Care Those words would float over the AM radio, that jingle that would greet me on those late nights when I couldn’t sleep. Sally Jesse Raphael [before the TV show] and Bruce Williams gave out advice to the masses every weeknight. I can say they got me through some long nights. I was thinking about that show the other night, and lo an behold, he retired in 2010. But in 2012 he started a…

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