Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
For today’s classic song of the day we head over to England and songstress Cilla Black’s biggest hit. “You’re My World” was released as a single in May of 1964 and went all the way to #1 in Australia, Belgium, Mexico, the Netherlands, South African, and her native UK, where it spent four weeks at the top of the charts.…
Today’s classic song of the day has a very, very long title. The song is “(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can’t I Touch You?” by Ronnie Dyson, a Broadway singer who made his way onto the pop charts. It was released in February of 1970 and went to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and…
“All in Love is Fair” is one of Stevie Wonder’s most beautiful ballads, and it’s today’s classic song of the day. It was never released as a single (at least in the U.S.; it was in Brazil, inexplicably) but was a standout track on Stevie’s Grammy-winning 1973 album, Innervisions. Stevie not only wrote and sang “All in Love is Fair,”…
For today’s classic song of the day we head back to the late ’70s and singer Bonnie Tyler’s hit, “It’s a Heartache.” Released in November of 1977, this single went all the way to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, and #10 on both the Billboard Adult Contemporary and Hot Country Songs charts. It was…
I have to admit, I was not a fan of KC and the Sunshine Band back in the ’70s. I thought their music simplistic and derivative, not something an erstwhile jazzer like me would be caught dead listening to. I also despised disco music, so there’s that, too. That said, a lot of people disagreed with me and gave KC…
The year 1970 was a great one for music. I was 12 years old then, moving from sixth grade into seventh, and I was listening to the radio a lot—WIBC-AM in Indianapolis for news, WIFE-AM for top forty music, and WNAP-FM for more album-oriented rock, but with a lot of overlap between the last two. I also spent a lot…
ABBA is a particular guilty pleasure of mine and today’s classic song of the day is their single “Honey, Honey.” This was the second single release from their second album, Waterloo. ABBA released “Honey, Honey” as a single in April of 1974. It was a top twenty hit in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and West…
Remember Rupert Holmes, the guy who did “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)?” Well, he’s the brain trust behind today’s classic song of the day, a little-remembered tune titled “Jennifer Tomkins.” Credited to a non-existent studio group called the Street People, this single hit the Billboard charts in January of 1970 and peaked at #36. Rupert Holmes wrote “Jennifer Tomkins” along…
Today is Halloween, so what better classic song of the day than Blue Öyster Cult’s classic, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” Released as a single in October of 1976, it peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. It did even better in Canada, going all the way to #7 on our northern…