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
Duran Duran–An Enduring Pop Favorite
Thanks to the exposure they got back in the early days of MTV, just about everybody has heard of Duran Duran, and, if you are or were into Pop music, then you’ll recall their massive hit "Hungry Like The Wolf.” "Pressure Off" is the first single from their new album...
“Lay It On Me” Explodes on Top 40/Sounds of “Shattered Dreams” Lurk in the Background
This song is SO Great! Romantic, but not mushy. If you are the kind of woman who likes it when he says he’ll take care of you, bear your burdens, and never leave, than this is the song for you. The group is Rudimental, an English drum and bass band, a foursome that’s...
Today is John Lennon’s 75th Birthday
Boomer Music Update curator Dave Sholin spent the afternoon of December 8, 1980 interviewing John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their Dakota apartment. John had just turned 40. Within hours of that interview, Lennon was cut down in the prime of his life by a madman's ...
You Can Hear ELO’s Influence on Bryan Adams’ New Song
Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, James Taylor and now Bryan Adams, all Boomers who are crafting new and exciting music. Super star Adams --remember "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”-- Billboard’s #1 “Song of the Year” in 1991—has a new release--“Brand New Day”. He in...
Green Day Sings About That End of September Feeling…
This “Weekly Whatever” taps into that annual feeling one gets about this time of year-- a whisper of Fall coolness in the air, the sense of another year winding down, a door closing, already the carefree days of summer seem long ago. That’s the mood of Green Day’s...
“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” 2.0
Remember the joyous sound that was Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 “Girls Just Want to Have Fun?” Well, here we are in 2015, and not much has changed, girls still want to have fun, but updated, and the song that’s currently filing that niche is “Black Magic” by a British...
Men Who Love Their Wives Madly, Deeply, Publicly
Back in 1970, Van Morrison presented the world with “Crazy Love,” a romantic, sweet ballad about how much he loved his wife, a sentiment that never goes out of style, because Thomas Rhett, who is red hot in Country—he’s only 25, and already has had four #1 hits in a...
“Eve of Destruction” was 50 Years Ago!
It's been exactly 50 years, September of 1965, since Barry McGuire’s "Eve Of Destruction" soared to number one on Billboard’s Top 40 chart. The song, which was an instant hit, was recorded in one take on a Thursday (from words scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper),...
Pentatonix Has That EW&F Groove
Today’s link is between the smooth sounding 70’s R&B jams of Earth, Wind & Fire to the a cappella group Pentatonix, which got popular on NBC’s “The Sing Off’ and now have a Top 40 and Adult Pop hit, called "Can't Sleep Love." Earth, Wind & Fire blended...