Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
“Where Did Our Love Go” was the Supremes’ first number-one hit, and it’s today’s classic song of the day. Released as a single on the Motown label in June of 1964, this one was a top ten hit worldwide and hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Cash Box Top 100, and Billboard R&B charts. “Where Did Our Love Go,”…
The Turtles were a very popular band in the 1960s but not all their singles became big hits. Case in point is today’s classic song of the day, “Can I Get to Know You Better.” Released as a standalone single in 1966, this one peaked at just #89 on the Billboard Hot 100. It deserved better than that. “Can I…
Welsh belter Tom Jones has today’s classic song of the day, “Delilah.” Decca Records (in the UK; London Records here in the U.S.) released “Delilah” in February of 1967 and it peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the UK Singles chart. It was also a top ten hit in Australia, Austria, Belgium (#1), Canada, Finland…
Roger Miller was a popular country artist who made several crossovers onto the mainstream pop charts in the mid-sixties. His first big crossover hit, “Dang Me,” is today’s classic song of the day. Roger Miller said he wrote “Dang Me” in four minutes in a motel room in Phoenix, Arizona. His friend Johnny Cash contradicts that story, saying he was…
Steve Cropper was one of the best guitarists many people never heard of. He wasn’t a flashy guitar god like Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix; he was a solid player who could seamlessly switch from rhythm to lead and back again. His rhythm playing was highly precise and often syncopated, with the space between notes often more important than the…
From the collective pens of the legendary Motown songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland comes today’s classic song of the day, “Something About You.” This 1965 single by the Four Tops went to #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on Billboard’s R&B chart. Holland-Dozier-Holland, also known as H-D-H, was Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian’s brother Eddie Holland. They were…
Today’s classic song of the day is an obscure soul banger that never gained a foothold on the pop charts but later got rediscovered by England’s Northern Soul scene. The song is “The Right Track” and it was recorded by soul singer Billy Butler. “The Right Track” was written by blues guitarist Johnny Jones and released, in 1966, on Chicago’s…
Sixty-two years ago today, on November 29, 1963, Parlophone Records released the single “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to record-buying audiences in the UK. The record had more than a million copies advance ordered and debuted on the British charts at number-two. (Number-one that week was another Beatles tune, “She Loves You.”) It took just two weeks for “I…
It’s the day before Thanksgiving here in the United States and a lot of people are on the road or in the air, heading home or over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house for a big Thanksgiving meal and get together. It’s only fitting, then, that today’s classic song of the day is Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward…