Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
This week is all about songs with a person’s name in the title, and today’s thus-titled classic song of the day is “Michael” by the Highwaymen. You might know it better as “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” and it’s been covered by many artists since its birth as a Black American spiritual way back in the 1860s. (That’s right, the…
This week we’re featuring songs with a person’s name in the title, and today’s classic song of the day is Elton John’s “Daniel.” Released in January of 1973, “Daniel” was one of Elton’s biggest hits, rising to #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100. It’s become one of his most popular songs. Like most of…
Today’s classic song of the day comes to us from the musical, The Fantasticks. “Try to Remember” was the first song performed in the show, designed to encourage the audience to imagine the settings suggested by the sparse set. Like all the music in The Fantasticks, the lyrics to “Try to Remember” were written by Tom Jones (not that one)…
Today’s classic song of the day is another gem from the songwriting team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. The song is “This Magic Moment” and the Drifters released it as a single in January of 1960. The Drifters’ single, produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, went all the way to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, #9 on…
Today’s classic song of the day is from two former 5th Dimensioners, the wife-and-husband team of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.. The song is “You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)” and, when it was released in September of 1976, went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard’s Hot…
Unless you’re a Girl Group aficionado, you’ve probably never heard today’s classic song of the day. The song is “When the Boy’s Happy (The Girl’s Happy Too)” and it is a perfect piece of Wall of Soundish Girl Group pop. The single of “When the Boy’s Happy (The Girl’s Happy Too)” was released on the Rust Records label (a subsidiary…
When I was a freshman at Indiana University during the 1976-1977 schoolyear, everybody in my dorm was listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, while I was listening to Stevie Wonder and Weather Report. And Steely Dan. Lots of Steely Dan. The Steely Dan album that was big my freshman year was The Royal Scam, which was released during my…
Yesterday I reminisced about my freshman year at Indiana University and mentioned the two albums that almost everybody in my dorm seemed to have—Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and the Eagles’ Hotel California. (One of the guys across the hall also had Heart’s Dreamboat Annie on constant repeat, and I didn’t object to that at all.) Since we featured a track from…
We’re going to start off this week by featuring a few songs that were big when I was in college, starting with this one by Fleetwood Mac. The song is “Dreams” and it was featured on the group’s massively popular album, Rumours. Released as a single in March of 1977, this one was all over the radio at the end…