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
The Heartache Updated: From Bonnie Tyler To Today
Miley Cyrus’s 17-year-old younger sister, Noah Cyrus, another of Billy Ray’s daughters, has released her first top 40 single, "Make Me (Cry)” currently ranked at #25 and climbing. The song’s about young, passionate lovers having the kind of...
Sign O’ The (Changing) Times: Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars! Superstar! Pop & R&B Sensation! He’s charismatic, handsome, talented, fun, young, energetic. His latest, “That’s What I Like" is snappy, with finger popping, licketey-split lyrics that suggest over the top, decadent imagery: Cadillacs,...
“I’m A Believer” Was #1 At Super Bowl 1
The very first “Super Bowl” was on January 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, when the Green Bay Packers, led by Quarterback Bart Starr, manhandled the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Fans headed to the game, held in Los Angeles’ famed Memorial Coliseum, were likely to hear...
A Sizzling Country/Pop Blend From Lady Antebellum
Right from the get-go, the trio known as Lady Antebellum have been Country Superstars. They began carving out their new and original sound a decade ago, and now they’ve got a catalog of diverse songs, with brilliant lyrics. Their latest is the up-tempo "You...
U.K. Band Has That Polished, Sophisticated Peter Gabriel Sound
UK band "The 1975” has a new single out-- “Somebody Else”--and it’s so good we are linking it to Peter Gabriel’s mesmerizing "In Your Eyes” which,, btw, sounds as contemporary, fresh and invigorating today as it did in1981 when it hit #1. “Somebody Else” has...
Avett Bros. Sing George Harrison’s “Give Me Love.” Audience Gets Chills.
The Avett Brothers sang George Harrison’s "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" last week, with such passion and good will it was like listening to the 60s and 70s all over again. Spirituality was at the very core of...
The Lumineers’ Lead Singer Is Reminiscent Of Paul Simon
U2 is going on tour to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of their classic Joshua Tree album and The Lumineers, a 3-person band out of Denver, will be their opening act on the US leg, which tells us that The Lumineers must be good. Listening to...
Be There Or Be Square!
Prince was in his mid-20s when he performed “When Doves Cry” and everyone could see, instantly, that his talent was into the stratosphere, the energy, the intensity, the showmanship, his overall greatness was a no-brainer. He was a born superstar. Same with Ed...
George Michael’s “One More Try” Is A Must Listen To. Again.
Call it eerily prophetic—but—in the mid-80's Wham! released “Last Christmas”--which went on to became a holiday classic –and then, some 30-years later, George Michael dies on Christmas Day, at 53-years old, a relatively young age. The youngest of the Boomer...