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
Is Lizzo the “Female Bruno Mars?”
Fueled by a retro funk rhythm, rapper/hip-hop/pop star Lizzo's "Juice" is making its way on both Top 40 and Adult Top 40 music charts. It's a hot track, the vocals are high velocity and the lyrics are all over the place from poetic to silly: It ain't my fault that I'm...
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The Trailer to “Rocketman,” the Elton John Bio-Pic
Fellow Boomers, are we in for a rock star "bio-pic" every year until we all die off, sometime around 2050 or so? Last year's paean to rock n' roll, "Bohemian Rhapsody," had it all: an Oscar winning song, box office boffo, great performances by the stars. Maybe...
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17-Year Old Billie Eilish is Gen Z’s “IT” Girl
17-year old singer/songwriter Billie Eilish, who flaunts convention and takes pride is going left when everyone else heads right, is Gen Z's "It Girl" of the moment, capturing the hearts and minds of both her peers and those of Millennials as well. Proof: Seven gold...
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For Memorial Day: “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home”
When it comes to patriotic songs with popular appeal, it's the Country format that delivers. Since its release in 1984, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The U.S.A." has owned the July 4th airwaves, and from Billy Ray Cyrus' "Some Gave All," to Trace Adkins' "Arlington,"...
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Flash Back! The 1960s! Laurel Canyon, CA Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Eric Clapton…
The critically acclaimed documentary, "Echo in the Canyon," celebrates a unique and special time and place: Laurel Canyon, California, in the 1960s, a wellspring of creativity for the popular music of the day; memories and stories told by the music-makers who were...
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Luke Combs! HOT! HOT! HOT! (Twangy, Hard-core, Red-hot Country Music)
A match made in Country music heaven: Luke Combs, the hottest act in Country music today, and his latest single, a beer-drinkin', hard hittin', red-neck, roadhouse-sounding throwback to the golden age of Country music juke-joint songs. (We're talking to you, Merle...
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Why We Love Top-40: From Elton John to Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
Elton John's "I Don't Care" is classic Top 40: upbeat, bubbly and infectious, with a simple, positive message: no matter what the world throws at 'em, as long as they're with "their baby" they just "don't care." Times and trends change, but sentiments such as those,...
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Doris Day Had All The Goods
Doris Day was always "there" in Boomerville, USA. Not disrupting the status quo, like an Elvis Presley or a Marilyn Monroe..but a decades long, constant presence, just the same. Top 40 radio played her hits alongside those of Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent....
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That Was Then. This is Now. The Feminization of American Men in Song: 1977-2019
Here's a song that exemplifies the shift in gender identity from our Boomer youth to today's gender fluid generation. In 1977 Yvonne Elliman nearly died of sadness in "If I Can't Have You" because that's how women reacted to rejection by their bigly and strongly men,...
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