Keeping Boomers In Touch With Today's Music
We connect a song from back-in-the-day to a current hit that has a similar sound/content/style. You’ll be up to speed in 90-seconds.
Curated by Dave Sholin | Written by Lee Wade
“A Capitol Fourth” Tomorrow Night
Yes, the world and the nation continue to grapple with Covid-19, but the 40th annual "A Capitol Fourth" will broadcast anyway, tomorrow, without a live audience; it's on PBS at 8P-Eastern. Performers include John Fogerty, The Temptations, Patti Labelle, Country stars...
Middle Class White Male Has Tough Time Adjusting to Grown-Up Life in the City
No matter if it’s 1969 with Marmalade’s “Reflections of My Life” contemplating the whole enchilada-- past, present and future—and turning it into a Top 10 hit, or the brand new “This City” by Australian R&B, soul, and neo-soul singer/songwriter Sam Fischer,...
Love CCR’s “Lookin’ Out My Back Door?” Then this is for you.
From the moment it opens, "Strong Enough" by brilliant singer/songwriter and Adult Alt fave Ray LaMontagne captures the spirit of Creedence Clearwater Revival: the rhythm and the beat and the mood and the vibe, plus he’s got John Fogerty-like gritty, sincere vocals...
The Strange Case of Fabian’s hit song “Tiger” and Netflix’s “The Tiger King”
Elvis had already been around for four years, in 1959, and the Beatles were still five years away, when 15 y/o Fabian Forte became an overnight sensation, a teen idol, with a run of Top 40 hits, the biggest being "Tiger." Fast forward 61 years and we again have an...
Weezer Amps Up the Energy!
“Hero” is Weezer’s newest single, and as lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Rivers Cuomo put it, their last album “didn’t have any guitars and this one is just all guitars.” And it rocks, in the way that the Foo Fighters’ top 10, 1998 hit,”My Hero,” rocks: a driving...
Let’s Sizzle Together!
"X," as in "kiss me like your ex is in the room," by the Jonas Brothers is a hot, sultry and sexy dance track a la 1999's "Waiting For Tonight" by Jennifer Lopez. Featured in the Amazon concert film "Happiness Continues," the Latin inspired "X" gets a boost from...
Summertime, 50 Years Ago…
Sunday, Father's Day, is officially the first day of summer, and, for sure, it's not going to be like any summer any of us have ever had before. Fifty years ago, "In the Summertime," by Mungo Jerry, was the #1 song in the U.K.; over here, the top slot was "The Long...
Full Disclosure: We Love Mt. Joy
True, it’s trite, but Mt. Joy are almost “indescribable” (folk-indie-rock)–and "Strangers," their newest song, is almost indescribable, too—we're linking it to Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 “My Best Friend.” Lyrically the two songs differ but sound wise and melodically,...
Love: Wanting, Waiting, Falling…
Looking for love, especially after a breakup, is a Pop music staple. It worked its magic in 1981 with Foreigner's now classic "Waiting for A Girl Like You," which spent several months at #2 on the Top 40 chart (blocked from #1 by Olivia-Newton John's "Physical")....