Sitting in a houseboat in Sausalito, CA,  overlooking San Francisco Bay, 51-years ago, was the inspiration for Otis Redding’s now classic (“Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" which he later put to words and music with co-writer Steve Cropper, the legendary...

June 16th was the 40th anniversary of the movie “Grease” and to celebrate, we listened to (and watched) "You're The One That I Want,” a 4-minute clip that is pretty much guaranteed to put you in a good mood-- Olivia Newton-John vamping in black toreador pants, high...

Hard to believe, but Madonna turned 60-years old yesterday. She's one of the most influential pop-culture taste makers and trend-setters of our Baby Boom generation…an almost 40-year career in the spotlight, dozens of hits, millions of fans, worldwide recognition,...

The Kinks formed their band 55 years ago, riding the wave of the "British Invasion" with giant hits including "You Really Got Me," "All Day And All Of The Night," "A Well Respected Man," and "Tired Of Waiting." The group went their separate ways for more than two...

  The first issue of Billboard magazine, oft described as "the bible" of the music business, was published in1894 and their famous "Top 100" debuted August 4th, 1958, with "Poor Little Fool" by 18-year old Ricky Nelson in the vaunted #1 slot, and sounding vastly...

It's a Paul McCartney moment, all over again, and he's everywhere. Over 25 million people have viewed Sir Paul and James Corden's carpool karaoke session (which included their duet of  "Baby You Can Drive My Car") and, just this week, he's popped up on video, all...

  Numerous odes to summer are enshrined in pop music history, from Gershwin to the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, to Eddie Cochran’s 1958 "Summertime Blues" --the grandaddy of summertime rock 'n' roll. Cochran’s version of “Summertime Blues” was so great that the song...

Last month, with little fanfare, the LP turned 70. A bona fide Baby Boomer, the LP was born June 18th, 1948, when The Wall Street Journal broke the news that "A 12-inch phonograph record that will play as much music as an album of six or seven conventional records...

"Weird Al" Yankovic has just ended his "Ridiculously, Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour,” and at each and every one of the tour’s 77 performances, his encore was a cover of a rock n’ roll classic--done straight, not as a parody. The songs were from every format,...