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
It Sounds Like Disco, But It Isn’t Disco…
Soulful singer/songwriter Sza (pronounced Siz-Uh) and “Mr. Cool” Justin Timberlake are dueting on "The Other Side," a cut from the upcoming soundtrack of the animated film "Trolls World Tour," scheduled to open April 17th. “The Other Side” reminds us of summer, 1975,...
The Phenomenon That Was Jose Feliciano
In 1968, nine-time Grammy winner and uber-talented Jose Feliciano crash landed into the zeitgeist with his stylized, soft ballad version of the Doors "Light my Fire." Released as a single, the flip side of the 45 was also a cover: The Mama & The Papas'...
He Loves Her So Much He’d Die for Her…
Almost all Top 40 and Adult Top 40 radio stations added Sam Smith’s new, emotion packed “To Die For“ on its Valentine’s Day release...it was perfect...as Smith himself explained, "This is for the all the lonely hearts out there on another Valentine’s Day xx." Smith’s...
Country’s Ashley McBryde’s Tell-All About the One-Night-Stand
Ashley McBryde’s “One Night Standards,” a forceful, in your face reality check about the modern state of the one-night stand from a woman’s point of view, asserts that it can be just as casual and temporary for her as it is for him. Singer/songwriter McBryde looks...
A “Real” Irish Pub Song For St. Patrick’s Day (Tues.)
This Tues. (Mar 17) is still St. Patrick's Day, even if the big n' famous roisterous parades-- New York City/Boston/Chicago/San Francisco--have been postponed or cancelled because of Corona virus concerns. In which case, you may have to celebrate alone, and nothing...
LIzzo Channels Janis Joplin!
Soul is singing with honesty, intensity, and authentic emotion. Skin color is irrelevant. Think Janis Joplin's wild, raw "Cry Baby"... or ...listen to LIzzo's "Cuz I Love You," a Joplin-esque emotional blast that wowed 'em at this year's Grammy's and that's charting...
Something We Boomers Know Something About…Time & Memories…
An "Impala," as many Boomers know, was a cool car, made by Chevy, popular in the late 50s-60s, and many of us also know that "Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)" played on high rotation on everybody’s local Top-40 radio station, was performed by "The Impalas," a...
RIP Jack Scott, the “greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time.”
“Undeniably, the greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time." That was the introduction to Jack Scott’s induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2011. Scott, who logged a string of hits in the late 50's to early 60's, had a heart attack in Dec....
“Average Joe” Does the Right Thing. Country Style.
Luke Combs, the hottest act in Country today, and fellow Country star Eric Church, who is big, but not as big as Combs, have released "It Does to Me," a heart-warming, blue-ribbon story-song about an average Joe, who is also an outstanding stand-up kind of guy. The...