Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
When it opened off-Broadway in 1967 (and on Broadway in 1968), the musical Hair was groundbreaking with its hippie themes and on-stage nudity. The musical has also supplied us with several hit songs, including “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (a hit for the 5th Dimension), “Hair” (a hit for the Cowsills), “Easy to Be Hard” (a hit for Three Dog Night),…
Today’s classic song of the day is a nice little bit of easy listening fluff from Australian songstress Olivia Newton-John. The song is “Sam” and, when it was released as a single in January of 1977, it went to #20 on the Billboard Hot 100, #34 on the Cash Box Top 100, and #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. “Sam”…
The Rolling Stones bring us today’s classic song of the day, “She’s a Rainbow.” Released in November of 1967, this psychedelic track peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. “She’s a Rainbow,” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, is somewhat atypical for a Stones song in that it’s more of a gentle ballad than a hard rocker. In…
Eric Carmen is the king of power pop, and today’s classic song of the day is him applying all his power pop prowess to an uptempo ballad. The song is “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again” and, when it was released in April of 1976, it went all the way to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, #9 on the…
Top forty radio in the 1960s was a wonderful thing, with all types of music and musicians represented. You might get a song by the Beatles, then one by Dusty Springfield, then a Dylan tune, then a Motown tune, then a country tune, then maybe even something by an old-school crooner. That last category is represented by today’s classic song…
“Floy Joy” was the Supremes’ last top twenty hit and it’s today’s classic song of the day. Released as a single in December of 1971, it hit, early in 1972, #16 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 and #5 on Billboard’s R&B chart. In many ways, “Floy Joy” was a return to classic form for…
After spending the last four days celebrating solo songs by the four members of the Beatles post-breakup, it’s only fitting that we now look at a tune that features all four Beatles working together and firing on all cylinders. Today’s classic song of the day, then, is an early one by the Fab Four, “All My Loving.” Believe it or…
Concluding our short look at the post-Beatles solo careers of former members of that group, we have the song “Photograph” by Ringo Starr. This was a pretty big hit, the lead single from his 1973 album, Ringo. Released as a single in September of 1973, “Photograph” went all the way to #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash…
Continuing our look at post-Beatles solo work by former members of that group, today’s classic song of the day is “My Love” by Paul McCartney & Wings. Don’t let the credit fool you; like anything credited to Paul McCartney, Paul and Linda McCartney, or Paul McCartney and Wings, this is a Paul McCartney production from start to finish. “My Love,”…