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
This Song Has Over 200 Million Hits on YouTube!
Imagine Dragons latest hit rumbles and shakes with the attention grabbing percussion and powerful vocals that one would expect of a song titled "Thunder,” a rendition so provocative that Microsoft is using it in their TV ads promoting the Surface Laptop, so it...
Ed Sheeran’s Song is “Perfect”
The name of the song is “Perfect,” and, alas, it is. This song floats: it's touching, uplifting, and a has a memorable and catchy hook. It's Pop, but even if Pop isn't your cup of tea, if you have the normal amount of emotional memory and the ability to...
Shania Twain Is Back
Shania Twain has released her first new album in 15 years, and the first single, "Life's About To Get Good," is a kiss-and-tell song in the Taylor Swift style; the follow-up single "Swingin' With My Eyes Closed" is also touchy-feely and personal, and both make a clear...
U2’s Latest Has an 80’s Groove
"You're The Best Thing About Me," U2’s newest, has Bono singing about love gone bad. I'll be crying out/ How bad can a good boy be Shooting off my mouth That’s another great thing about me I got everything But I feel like nothing at all There’s no risky thing For a...
Kelly Clarkson Shows Some “Respect”
Kelly Clarkson describes her latest hit, “Love So Soft," as a "sassy, soulful pop song" adding "we felt that it was like a modern day "Respect," referring to Aretha Franklin's 1967 classic. The title might say “soft” but the song is anything but. Clarkson's...
Steely Dan Fans, This Is For You
Last month, after the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, surviving partner Donald Fagen stated that he intended “to keep the music we created alive as long as I can,” and to honor that commitment, he’s announced an eight city Steely Dan tour beginning in...
Emotional Love Songs: What Would We Do Without Them?
When you hear “Everything I Own” (1972, Bread), do you ever wonder “has a sadder song ever been written?” I would give anything I own Give up my life, my heart, my home I would give ev’rthing I own Just to have you back again So emotional. “Greatest Love Story” by...
From The Kinks’ “Lola” to “Whole Wide World”
Guess who's back? It's the band Cage The Elephant, making their third appearance on Boomer Music Update, last featured in February just off their big Grammy win for Best Rock Album. In July they issued "Unpeeled," a collection of live tunes culled from various...
America’s Oldies But Goodies–The Talk Show
In 1967, the Summer of Love, it was impossible to turn on the radio and NOT hear the "59th Street Bridge Song ("Feelin' Groovy)" performed by pop group Harpers Bizarre, whose lead singer, Dick Scoppettone, currently hosts a funky pod-cast called “America’s Oldies But...