Covers: Downtown

I thought of “Downtown” because Anya Taylor-Joy performs it in the film Last Night in Soho which I just watched. If you’ve never heard it, try the unreal cover by Mrs. Miller. Yes, people listened to this stuff in the 1960s. I can’t explain it to you.

The hit version was recorded by Petula Clark in 1964.

Gerrymandering in Kentucky

Captain Isaac Emerson Mansion in Baltimore

Another spectacular house on Eutaw Place

Captain Isaac Emerson Mansion from Baltimore Heritage. I encourage you to support them.

Hawley-Hutzler House in Baltimore

My first apartment was only a block away from this magnificent house. Eutaw Place, in its prime, must have been really elegant, It has mansions and a large median strip.

The Hawley-Hutzler House is located at 1801 Eutaw Place.

It sold for $700,000.

Maryland Historical Trust architectural survey

Recent coronavirus stats 1/21/22

The moral of the story is to get vaccinated and boosted.

Did the New York Times call Meat Loaf Mr. Loaf?

I saw Meat Loaf in the Broadway show Rockabye Hamlet – see my post on the show here:

Only 30% support overturning Roe vs. Wade

That won’t stop the extremist right-wing Supreme Court.

Great article on Peter Bogdanovich

Film director Peter Bogdanovich died on January 6, 2022.

Here’s a great article from a man who found a better version of one of Bogdanovich’s films on eBay.

Covers: Got My Mind Set on You

“Got My Mind Set on You” was originally recorded by James Ray in 1962. George Harrison’s 1987 was a #1 single in the US. I thought of it because Ray’s version is in the recent film Last Night in Soho.