Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
“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…
Today’s classic song of the day comes to us from Stevie Wonder and his 1972 album, Talking Book. The song is “Lookin’ for Another Pure Love” and it’s a keeper. Stevie Wonder released a string of albums in the 1970s that are arguably unsurpassed in sustained quality and influence, starting with Music of My Mind and ending with the epic…
Today’s classic song of the day is one of many top ten hits by the Supremes. The song, released as a single in April of 1966, is “Love is Like an Itching in My Heart” and it peaked at #9 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, and #7 on Billboard’s R&B chart. Supreme Mary Wilson…
Stevie Wonder is one of our generation’s great treasures. His string of albums from 1972’s Music of My Mind to 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life is one of the most impressive accomplishments in the history of popular music. Today’s classic song of the day wasn’t part of that historic group of masterpieces, but came just before it. The…
Today’s classic song of the day was the B-side to an A-side by the Temptations. The A-side was a minor hit but the B-side proved longer-lasting. The song is “The Girl’s Alright with Me” and it was the B-side to “I’ll Be in Trouble.” Honestly, I don’t remember the A-side, which supposedly hit #33 on the Billboard Hot 100, a…
Yesterday’s classic song of the day was the Supremes’ very first number-one record, “Where Did Our Love Go.” Today we fast forward a few years to the time when Diana Ross left the group to go solo and her first solo hit, “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand).” Motown released the single in April of 1970 and it went to…
“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,”…
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…
“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,”…