Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from yesterday and today
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from yesterday and today
Continuing on from “Dancing in the Moonlight” and “Moonlight Feels Right,” today’s classic moon-themed song of the day is “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” by Jonathan King. This track made it all the way to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September of 1965. “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” is ostensibly a song about loneliness, set to a melancholy…
Building off yesterday’s “Dancing in the Moonlight,” today’s classic moonlight-themed song of the day is “Moonlight Feels Right” by a band called Starbuck. No, they are not affiliated by the coffee chain, although if they formed a few years later no doubt they would have been sued for appropriating part of the name. “Moonlight Feels Right” was released in December…
Last week was all dance songs here at the Classic Song of the Day blog, so let’s carry it forward another day with “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest, an otherwise unremarkable French-American band. Sherman Kelly wrote it back in 1969, recorded it in 1970 with his band Boffalongo, then his brother Wells Kelly rerecorded it with his band…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Do You Want to Dance,” which was a hit for three (actually four, if you count the UK) artists in three different decades. “Do You Want to Dance” was written by Bobby Freeman, a black teenager from San Francisco. Mr. Freeman was just 17 years old when he released his version of…