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
Beach Song Evokes the Sounds & Feel of Beale Street
Let’s get right to it: “Lemonade” by Adam Friedman (and featuring Mike Posner) is a Must. Listen. To. One of this year’s feel good summer songs. Just listening to it evokes the sound of waves lapping at the shore, and the title “Lemonade,” is as much a...
Emotional Honesty Never Goes Out Of Style
Here’s a flawless combo, a perfect match: Australian musician and writer Flume, and Canadian singer Kai: “Never Be Like You,” now charting on Top 40 formats. This song is an emotional plea from a woman who is sorry she messed up, had a one-night stand, and now is...
Band Has Weird Name But Makes Top-Notch Music
I’d probably snort if you suggested I’d fall for a band with a name like “Cage the Elephant” except that I know that last November Boomer Music Update raved about that same band’s #1 Alternative hit, “Mess Around.”...
Star Trek Turns 50 In September!
Is it even possible that the NBC-TV programmers who green-lightred Star Trek 50 years ago could have envisioned that their (then) newest, groundbreaking show would become a cult classic, spawning generations of "Trekkies," and a string of movie blockbusters?...
Can Boomers Relate to a 17-year Old Singing About Love?
Back in the 50’s, 60's and part of the 70's, dozens of teen singers occupied slots on Top 40 radio. Today, there are far fewer teens but there are still those who break through such as Canadian Shawn Mendes, a 17-year old sensation who had a monster hit last year with...
Happy 70th Birthday, Linda Ronstadt
As a member of the first class of Boomers—born July 15th, 1946—Linda Ronstadt fully embraced the golden era of rock n’ roll, covering songs by The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and Roy Orbison. Linda was a star right out of the box, her repertory expanding from lead...
Similar Sounds: The Cure and Blink 182
What a great line: “Life’s too short to last long.” That’s from “Bored to Death” by Blink 182—a sentiment that is most likely interpreted differently by Boomers than it is by the Millennials and Gen Xer’s who are Blink 182 fans. Other “Bored To Death" lyrics,...
A Red Dress. Some Red Wine.
2014’s earworm of the year was from “Rude,” a song performed by Magic, a Canadian group with a reggae pop sound. The song was everywhere: on the radio, at the mall, in the grocery store. It skyrocketed to #1, and still gets plenty of exposure. Will “Magic” strike the...
Heartfelt Tribute For the Orlando Victims
It’s been almost a full month since that horrific shooting spree in Orlando, where almost 100 people were killed and/or injured—an event that shocked, and saddened, millions of people worldwide. Christina Aguilera has put those emotions into a soul-tinged song...