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
If “Sunday Best” Was a Color, It Would be Cotton Candy Pink
"Sunday Best" reminds me that back when we Boomers were kids, every once in while there would be a freak Top 40 hit, like "Sukiyaki," from 1963, which was sung entirely in Japanese. “Sunday Best" is different like that--performed by Surface--Forrest Frank and Colin...
Willie Nelson, We Love You
Willie Nelson turned 87 y/o two days ago, and that's probably the nicest thing that's happened in the whole USA in the whole month of April, as most of us love Willie Nelson--for his music, for who he is as a person, because he's from Texas... ... he has a brand new...
Rx for a Pandemic? Let’s Dance!
After his mother lamented that she sure could use an upbeat song to distract her from “all this,” twenty one pilots’ Tyler Joseph (singer/songwriter) and band-mate Josh Dun (drummer/percussionist) wrote, recorded and released “Level of Concern,” which immediately...
R&B with a Pop Melody
R&B with a pop melody is a formula that worked for Evelyn "Champagne" King's 1982 hit "Love Come Down," a 6-minute and 15-second long languid lapse into lovers lane, and that same formula--R&B with a pop melody--still works today, and though their lyrics...
R.I.P. John Prine
John Prine, storyteller extraordinaire and an icon of the Americana music scene, died April 7h after developing Covid 19. An early Boomer (born 1946), Prine’s story songs and melodies could be humorous, touching, witty, thought provoking, and emotional as they...
“I Think We’re Alone Now:” A Song for the Times
In 1967, the lyrics to Tommy James & The Shondells hit "I Think We're Alone Now" were considered so risque, and incited so much controversy, that some radio stations only aired it late in the day; others refused to play it at all. Such were the mores of the...
Sam Hunt’s Long Awaited New Album
One of our BoomerMusicUpdate favorites, Country star Sam Hunt, has released his long awaited second album, "Southside," which dropped early this month with the track "Hard To Forget" getting heavy radio play. "Hard to Forget" has a few Country song essentials --a sad...
R.I.P. Bill Withers. “Ain’t No Sunshine” Without You
Bill withers had a short recording career--just 15 years--from 1970-85, yet in that window, his songs secured him a permanent place in the collective musical soundtrack of a generation. Everybody knows "Ain't No Sunshine," " Lean on Me (his biggest hit, which topped...
The Killers. Their Name Says It All.
It says a lot about The Killers, that Lindsey Buckingham is lending and unleashing his guitar playing prowess to “Caution,” their “out of the box” hit that’s #3 on the Alt chart and #4 on Adult Alt. There’s an 80s/90s melodic link between “Caution” and songs by...