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
“Too Much Television”
On the one hand, "too much television" inspired Bruce Springsteen's steamy, sultry, smokey, simmering "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" and on the other hand, long time Texas based Country alt-rockers Old 97's solution to "too much TV" is a rollicking, frolicking,...
A Country Singer, A Hip Hop Artist, and A Pop/R&B Superstar Walk Into a Bar…
..actually, they go into a recording studio, and create a Top 40 hit, as the lines between musical genres continue to blur. In the newly released "Be Like That," Country singer Kane Brown (who also sings R&B) has teamed up with hip-hop artist Swae Lee and ...
Oldies but Goodies: Today is Art Laboe’s 95th birthday (the video is a “must see”)
If you're an early Boomer who grew up a typical teen in 1950s-60s USA, then you probably listened to Top 40 radio, a virtual "teen town" hangout, your go-to to get connected, to find out what was happening, plus... you could send dedications and make requests....
Pop Punk Star MGK Sings “Bloody Valentine”
Machine Gun Kelly (born Colson Baker), multi-talented singer/songwriter, rapper and actor, was only 10 y/o in 2000, when Blink 182's #1 hit, "All The Small Things," helped define Pop Punk. Today, MGK, as he's sometimes known, is a star with his own brand of Pop...
New Country Song Has Old-Time Country Feel
Music has its stereotypes: high drama for opera, young love and lust for rock n' roll, and poor-but-happy for Country, a concept exemplified in the lovely-to-listen to "We Were Rich"-- a brand new up-tempo toe-tapper by female trio Runaway June, it has a...
Benny Mardones: Three-Hit Wonder
You probably won't recognize his name--Benny Mardones--however, you probably will recognize the best selling song he penned 40 years ago--"Into The Night"...it has such a captivating melody that it charted on the "Billboard Hot 100" three different times: first in...
Michael Franti’s Feel Good Song is Just What the Dr. Ordered
In the midst of a world wide pandemic, "I Got You" by Michael Franti and Spearhead is just what the doctor ordered: It's one of 17 songs included in their new album, "Work Hard & Be Nice," which is dedicated to finding meaning, joy, ease of heart, moments of...
“Ur So CoOl”
Everybody's talkin' 'bout sex Everybody's talkin' 'bout ex Like no one really wants to find a genuine connect Before they even look at you, they move on to the next Last Nov., we raved about 19-year old Australian phenom Toni Watson, also known as Tones and I, who...
“Get Together” A Song for Our Time and a Song for All Time
Remember "Get Together," the Youngbloods 4+ minute peace and love anthem that went nowhere in 1967 when it was first released, but hit top 5 when it was re-released in 1969 --a time period of national political unrest, similar to today (minus Covid-19)? It's been...