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
Roy Head and the Enduring “Treat Her Right”
It's been month of loss in the music world: Toots Hibbert of Toots & The Maytals, Helen Reddy, Mac Davis, Eddie Van Halen. Each song and performance left an indelible mark on our collective musical consciousness. While he wasn't as famous as the above artists, Roy...
A Sweet, Touching, Slowed-Down Love Song
The lyrics to Country music singer/songwriter star Luke Combs' newest, "Better Together," are mass appeal--human appeal...it's a heartfelt ballad about a happy man in love with his woman, and she loves him back. The vocals burst with emotion. Some things just go...
The Eternal Appeal of “Da Da Da…”
There's something irresistible about those "da da da's" in a song. It was a winner for the band America on their massive, 1972 hit "Ventura Highway," and it's adding flourish to Harry Styles' latest single, "Golden," with its familiar 70's/80's feel wrapped around...
Charley Pride: Awards & Recognition
Next Wednesday night, at the 54th Annual Country Music Awards, Charley Pride, the genres first Black superstar, will receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. In Pride’s 50+ year career, he’s had 29 number one Country hits, including his signature “Kiss An...
Disco Lives!
British pop phenom and singer/songwriter Dua Lipa 's smokin' new release, the disco-tinged "Levitating" would have been right at home on radio and on dance floors in the 70's and 80's, yet it's connecting in 2020, charting on two formats: #15 on Top 40 and #26 on...
A Fun Love Song: Joyous, Happy Energy
One of the consequences of grocery delivery is not reading “Star” or "People” while waiting in the check-out line, thus, losing touch with celebrity gossip, and maybe missing the news that in-love love-birds Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani (both of "The Voice") are...
Do You Ever Want to “Turn Back the Hands of Time”?
Is it not enough that we have a major election in four days, in the midst of a Covid 19 pandemic, an economic meltdown, quarantine fatigue, upcoming holidays and more? No, it is not enough. The American public can take more. In addition to a weird Halloween without...
The Urge to Dance
From the bop to the twist to 70's disco and the dance pop of the 80's and 90's, joyous, energetic "dance songs" inspire and urge us to let go, get loose, to dance... You can hear that "magical sensation" in 1992's international hit and dance sensation "Rhythm Is A...
Rock, Roll & Reflect: “The Boss” Looks Back
Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You” is an emotional, sweeping, tender, touching tale of deep love of and feelings for his 50-year career, including his musical partners and fans, and reflections on personal life, too. Things I found out through hard times and good I...