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
Brandy Clark: Country Music with Attitude
Grammy nominee Brandy Clark has never been one to play it safe, rather, she prefers to push the envelope and stir things up in Nashville. As co-writer of Miranda Lambert’s smash hit "Mamas Broken Heart," Clark has paid her dues and continues to turn heads with...
Two Songs About How Great It Feels to Fall in Love!
There’s always room in life for a song about what it’s like to fall in love …a song that expresses that joyous je ne sais quoi: peppy, innocent lyrics that bounce above the music. In the early 80s, it was Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” and today’s rendition is...
Super Bowl Flashback
This Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl…the first game was played on January 15, 1967 (end of the 1966 season) which means that “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees, is almost 50 years old, too, because that was the #1 song in America, 49 years ago...
Two Blonds: One Sings Pop, the Other Rocks
Both Gwen Stefani & No Doubt’s mid 90s hit “Spiderwebs” and the brand new “Low life” by That Poppy are High Energy pop and reggae fusions with fancy, catchy lyrics centered on the power of love to ensnare (Stefani) or comfort (Poppy). That Poppy’s...
Mike Posner’s ”I Took a Pill in Ibiza” Is A “Must Listen To”
“I Took a Pill in Ibiza” is just out, beginning its climb up the hit parade. In just one listen you can tell that this song--and singer/songwriter Mike Posner-- are special: intelligent, clever, creative, fresh, original, and way out of the ordinary. Six...
Natalie Cole: “Unforgettable” 1950 to 2016
by Dave Sholin With her very first hit, "This Will Be," Natalie Cole served notice that she wasn't merely the daughter of a musical legend and one of the greatest voices in music history, she was paving her own path as a singer and performer. Sadly, she lost...
Adele’s Newest Echoes Linda Ronstadt’s “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me”
Some people are born “old souls”--wise and experienced beyond their years, and Adele must be one of them-- how else could she sing these bitter-sweet and poignant lyrics so convincingly, at just 25-years old? You still look like a movie You still sound like a...
Those “Romantic” Late Night Phone Calls
A hotline is a direct, private line between two parties who have an urgent need to talk to one another. Like Obama and Putin. Or you and your BFF. Or your lover. ”Hotline” by the Sylvers (1976) opens with that lovely lady relic from the past, “The Operator,” asking...
1948-2016
Music is the glue that holds the Boomer generation together, and a large chuck of that soundtrack is owned by the Eagles, whose co-founder, Glenn Frey, passed away earlier this week-- tragic news that stunned a world already shell shocked by the recent losses of David...