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
A Love Song from Maroon 5 and Adam Levine
Paul McCartneys' "My Love," his tribute to first wife, Linda, is an honest, sincere, well-crafted love song, as is Adam Levine and Maroon 5's "Nobody's Love," the band's follow-up to "Memories," which was one of last year’s biggest pop successes. You could make a...
R.I.P. Max Crook, Early Rock n’ Roll Influencer PLUS It’s Elvis Week!
On July 1st, Max Crook passed away at 83 y/o. While still in his 20s, he built a monophonic synthesizer and named it a Musitron, a sound that Boomers young and old and everyone else, too, can recognize when they hear it--its raw sound helped define early rock; the...
“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...