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
Love: Wanting, Waiting, Falling…
Looking for love, especially after a breakup, is a Pop music staple. It worked its magic in 1981 with Foreigner's now classic "Waiting for A Girl Like You," which spent several months at #2 on the Top 40 chart (blocked from #1 by Olivia-Newton John's "Physical")....
A Grab-bag of Songs: Some Old, Some New, & Some Surprises!
Got a jones for some 60s-70s tunes, maybe the Beach Boys or the Turtles? Enter Jason Brewer and The Explorers Club, a Nashville based band of rotating members that’s releasing two albums today. The first, Boomer-friendly “To Sing and Be Born Again,” covers some...
A Lovey-Dovey Song For Happy Couples
“Stuck with U” a new duet by Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber is a love song about a happy couple who are thrilled to be “stuck” with each other. Got all this time on my hands Might as well cancel our plans I could stay here for a lifetime Although the lyrics are...
Viva La Margarita!
Jimmy Buffet’s "Margaritaville" is the absolute acme of tequila party songs, but Country Superstar, “American Idol” judge, and good ol’ boy Luke Bryan joins the revelry with “One Margarita,” which sounds exactly like you’d expect: fast and snappy with sun drenched...
Take a Break. Listen to “Cathy’s Clown”
60-years ago this week, "Cathy's Clown," by the Everly Brothers, was the #1 song on Top 40 radio. First wave Boomers (Zoomers) would be entering 9th grade in the Fall. "Cathy's Clown" was the Everly Brothers biggest hit: #1 for 5-weeks and selling upwards of 8...
I’m Not OK, Neither Are You, and That’s OK
In the early 90's the "alternative" format flourished, bursting forth with a creative force that led to a steady stream of massive hits from Nirvana's "Smells Like a Teen Spirit" to Radiohead's "Creep" and "Loser," Beck's first hit. Listening to "Not OK!" by...
Dancing Solo Doesn’t Require Social Distancing (or a mask)
"Roses" by SAINt JHN is an international sensation with almost a billion streams which are two good reasons to pay attention to it--just so you know what everyone else in the world is listening to. Plus, it's a terrific dance song, with a "Nasty Girl" groove --the...
The Hipsters Guide to the Quarantine by Mick Jagger & the Rolling Stones
The hippest, slickest "quarantine"-ish" song so far is the Rolling Stone's "Living in a Ghost Town"--a great, groovy, mesmerizing, eclectic, breezy, bluesy but not blues, brand new release, the band's first in eight years and what timing! Jagger said in interview with...
Sign O’ the Times: You in Your 6’, and Me in Mine
Luke Combs, possibly the hottest artist in Country music today, has written one of the best social distancing songs out there, capturing both our shared isolation experience and the public’s fancy. Music programmers and the public LOVE it, and it their response has...