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
Be There Or Be Square: Your Portal into EDM & Justin Bieber
EDM are the initials that stand for Electronic Dance Music, a recognizable mesmerizing repetitious beat, mainly for play at raves, clubs, and festivals, but now it’s mainstream and really hot, even impacting songs in other formats, ranging from Top 40 to...
Emotion That Rips Your Heart Out
Who could it be? Is it 25-year old Aretha Franklin singing 1967’s “Chain of Fools,” and hurting so bad you could feel it, too, or is it 24-year old British singer/songwriter Bishop Briggs who made her U.S. TV debut just last month on Jimmy Fallon’s show, and...
Maynard G. Krebs, Huey Lewis, and Labor Day
“WORK!” That’s an appropriate Labor Day quote--shouted out and made famous by Maynard G. Krebs on the early 60's TV sitcom "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis” For some people, Labor Day weekend is an end-of-summer getaway, others decompress at home, some are...
A Powerful New Song From Norah Jones
One of 1977’s biggest pop songs was Crystal Gayle’s jazz tinged “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and it comes to mind when you listen to Norah Jones newest “Carry On.” Both Gayle and Jones have smoky voices, with similar styles—strong, calm, controlled...
Keith Urban’s New Ballad Transcends Country Format
Sometimes love affairs last a lifetime and sometimes they don’t. In 1979 Robert John sang a tender “Sad Eyes” about the end of an affair. A slow, gentle ballad that conveyed the sorrow she felt when he ended the relationship. “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” Keith...
50 Years Ago: The Beatles and Top 40 Radio
50 years ago this Monday—Aug. 29—The Beatles gave their final live performance, at San Francisco's cold, windblown Candlestick Park, in a show presented by popular Top 40 radio station KYA-AM. Candlestick Park is no more--it was demolished just last Feb.; the...
“I Didn’t Know I Was Starving Til I Tasted You
In 2010, then 13-year old Hailee Steinfeld played little Mattie Ross in the remake of “True Grit,” with Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn. Six years later, Jeff Bridges looks a bit older, but, overall pretty much the same. Hailee Steinfeld, now 19, does...
A Song So Good It Could Be From The 70s
“Welcome To Your Life” by Grouplove has a raucous presentation that belies the song’s serious lyrics and message, about the wonder of the universe and our place in it, and also the awareness that while we can sometimes hit a string of good things, at other...
Country Meets Pop: Kenny Chesney & Pink Sizzle!
Country music is in the throes of matching up a major star, like Kenny Chesney, with a pop star of equal stature, like Pink, and their collaboration "Setting The World On Fire” is the latest example of that trend. So far this summer Brad Paisley and Demi...