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R&P at 40

October 19, 2023

In 1982 Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips made their debut at San Francisco’s Valencia Rose Cafe as the musical break for Gay Comedy Open Mic Night. In 1984 they released “I Thought You’d Be Taller“- their first full-length album. For two decades they toured across [read more]

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More Queer Progress Analysis

August 28, 2016

Some thoughts on the progress we have (or haven’t) made as queer folk, at least here in North America, measured by the Romanovsky & Phillips music catalog. With something like 50 songs on the still-available R&P titles, and dozens more on Ron’s solo albums, there [read more]

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Queer Progress

August 28, 2016

Some thoughts on the progress we have (and have not) made as queer folk, at least here in North America, measured by the Romanovsky & Phillips music catalog. This post is inspired by my listening to the R&P album Let’s Flaunt It (Live In Concert) [read more]

Brushing Fame

People In The Biz

November 16, 2013

Another in my occasional stories of interacting with people of fame. As with most people who don’t work in ‘the biz’ or live in any of the major ‘industry cities’ (NYC and LA in the US, Vancouver and Toronto up north) I am unlikely to [read more]

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Anti-Depressant Polka Video

September 9, 2012

I first posted about this song back in November 2009. I’m re-posting as Ron has just published the above great new video for the song. “This is a great, up-tempo song full of fun references to polka greats such as Lawrence Welk and Myron Floren. [read more]

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R&P 30th Anniversary

February 3, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2012 Gay Folk Music Duo’s 30th Anniversary Celebrated with Publication of Book The Digital Gryphon LLC is pleased to announce the publication of “1 Out Of 10 Therapists: The Poetry of Romanovsky & Phillips Lyrics” just in time to celebrate [read more]