Bostworld

I’ll buy just about any album with Michael Lloyd’s name on it. I first grew to love his work via his productions for the Osmond family and other 70s teen idols like Leif Garrett and Shawn Cassidy. But his credits appear on dozens and dozens of album from the period. Like other great producers of [...]

Classroom Filmstrips have been a staple of kitch fans since time immemorial (that’s about four decades, in Kitsch Years), yet the Web still lacks a truly marvellous repository of the things. (Note: You can go here, but they are mostly films.) Collectors are apparently afraid to let them out of their little plastic tubes for [...]

One of the topics that came up during my conversation with Russ Shaw a couple months back was his work with the Phoenix pirate station, KDIL. I never heard the station myself; by the time I learned about it, I was in my late teens and the broadcasts had all but stopped. But the older [...]

Back in the days before media saturation, folks relied on their own resources in order to amuse themselves. You could find people clustered under awnings, along roadsides and behind bus stations — notebooks in their laps, ball-point pens at the ready — all chuckling to themselves over their latest doodle or humorous cartoon. I miss [...]

The public spectacle of Elvis sleepwalking his way though the seventies is one of the more cliche metaphors of that decade. But the second half of 1974 is what many consider his absolute nadir. To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the death of The King Of Rock And Roll, we present a compilation of [...]

Jingle writing legend Steve Karmen is probably best known for such hit songs as “Weekends Were Made For Michelob”, “Hershey, The Great American Chocolate Bar” and “When You Say Budweiser (You’ve Said It All).” In the time since his heyday in the 1970s, Steve has burnished his place in history with several books, including the [...]

Bostworld salutes a Phoenix group’s foray into 1970s redneck disco.