Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
“My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)” was David Ruffin’s first solo hit after he left the Temptations. It’s also today’s classic song of the day. David Ruffin was 23 years old when he joined the Temptations in 1964. He’d moved from Mississippi, where he’d been born, to Detroit when he was 16 years old and released a…
“Big Yellow Taxi” is one of Joni Mitchell’s best-known tunes, and it’s today’s classic song of the day. She included it on her third album, Ladies of the Canyon, and released it as a single in April of 1970. It wasn’t a huge hit, peaking at #67 on the Billboard Hot 100. A near-simultaneous cover by a group called the…
For Father’s Day, today’s classic song of the day is “Daddy’s Home” by Shep and the Limelites. Released in March of 1961, this doo-wop classic peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Cash Box Top 100. “Daddy’s Home” was written by the three members of the Limelites, James “Shep” Sheppard, Clarence Bassett, and Charles Baskerville.…
Today’s classic song of the day is an unusual one from legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. It’s “The Train,” the final cut from Mr. Sinatra’s oft-forgotten Watertown album, and it’s killer. Watertown was a concept album, released in 1970, that told the story of a guy in a smallish commuter town whose wife left him and their two boys to run…
Today’s classic song of the day comes to us courtesy of the Lovin’ Spoonful. The song is “Daydream” and, when it was released in February of 1966, it went all the way to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Cash Box Top 100. “Daydream” was written by the Spoonful’s front man and lead vocalist, the talented…
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, brings us today’s classic song of the day, “Day Dreaming.” Released as a single in February of 1972, “Day Dreaming” went all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and rose to #1 on Billboard’s R&B chart. “Day Dreaming” was written by Ms. Franklin, supposedly about her longstanding relationship with Temptation…
Today’s classic song of the day is a really obscure one. The song is “Here’s to You” by Hamilton Camp, and it was released as a single in June of 1968. You probably know Hamilton Camp not as a musician but as a character actor, typically in comedy roles, during the late 1960s through the turn of the century. He…
Cat Stevens brings us today’s classic song of the day, “Oh Very Young.” It was included on his album, Buddha and the Chocolate Box and released as a single in March of 1974. The single went to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. Like many of Mr. Stevens’ songs, “Oh Very Young” is…
The Supremes (not yet Diana Ross and the Supremes) bring us today’s classic song of the day, “My World is Empty Without You.” Released as a single at the end of December, 1965, this one rose to #5 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 early in 1966. “My World is Empty Without You” was written…
The 1970s were odd times in many, many ways. One of those ways was the fascination with citizen’s band (CB) radio. It started as a thing for truckers to communicate with each other when on the road but, over the course of the decade, seeped into mainstream life. Millions of regular citizens installed CB radios in their cars, ostensibly to…