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
Peace, Love, & Understanding Redux (Thank You Jason Mraz)
It’s hard to believe that Boomers considered “peace, love and understanding” a viable worldview vs. today, where the choices are far more bellicose. Often, we look to artists to help us focus, to organize our world and express it in a way we can understand, knowing...
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Sad & Soulful Songs by Men With Broken Hearts.
"A Little Honey,” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats latest top 20 Adult Alternative hit, has a big sound that includes Rateliff’s signature scorching, soulful vocals, reminding us of Solomon Burke's 1963 classic "If You Need Me." Artists like these pack a...
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…And The Award Goes To…Janet Jackson…and she deserves it…
The annual Billboard Music Awards are on TV this Sunday night ( May 20th) on NBC (8ET/5PT) with Janet Jackson receiving their “ICON” award, in recognition of her long and successful career: recall that she was only 20 y/o, in 1986, when "When I Think Of You" hit #1...
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We’re Not In Kansas Anymore.
Boomers grew up listening to music made in the great cities of 20th century America: Detroit, Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, the deep South. So its surprising to note that there are currently three big rock acts from Las Vegas, a relatively new city without an...
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Daryl Hall, John Oates, & The Philly Sound
Philadelphia boy Daryl Hall and partner John Oates, who’ve been around since the 70s, are still selling out arenas, their new song is top 15 on the Adult Contemporary and Pop radio charts, and, thanks to MTV’s "Daryl's House,” Hall is a household name to a new...
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Lady Gaga’s Thrilling Cover of Elton John’s “Your Song.”
Some Boomers sometimes remark that today’s music just isn’t as good as the music from the good ol’ days and those Boomers are in good company because Sir Elton, aka Elton John, recently complained to the British press that today's music doesn't stand up to songs from...
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The More Things Change, The More They Change
At one time Country music’s image was of rugged, tanned drunks who loved their mothers and then went to prison. Today’s Country is much fluffier—if hit-bound “Hotel Key” by Old Dominion, one of Nashville’s most popular, talented, and successful bands, was a color, it...
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Is Shawn Mendes’ “In My Blood” as Mesmerizing as “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House?
Pop/rock band Crowded House owned the air waves in early 1987, mesmerizing millions with “Don’t Dream It’s Over”--less a song with a linear story line, more a montage of images, insights and thoughts. Taking the slot reserved for hauntingly powerful ballads today is...
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Tequila!
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that commemorates a minor Mexican military victory, and which is more popular here in the U.S. than it is in Mexico. Sometimes known as “drinko de mayo,” tequila is the drink of choice. Flash back to “Tequila” the song. It’s...
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