Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
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,”…
Continuing our week of post-Beatles solo work, today’s classic song of the day comes from ex-Beatle George Harrison. The song is “What is Life” and it was released as a single in February of 1971. (But not in the UK, where it had previously appeared as the B-side of the “My Sweet Lord” single.) It hit #10 on the Billboard…
Let’s kick off a week of solo tunes by former Beatles with one of the first out of the gate, John Lennon’s “Instant Karma!” Released in February of 1970, before the Beatles technically broke up, “Instant Karma!” went all the way to #3 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, #5 on the UK Singles Chart,…
British songbird Petula Clark was one of the finest singers of the 1960s (or any decade, for that matter) and she brings us today’s classic song of the day. The tune is “Who Am I” and it was released as a single in October of 1966. The song inexplicably failed to chart in her native UK but went to #21…
“Pancho and Lefty” is today’s classic song of the day. Written by singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, it’s a story song about a Mexican bandit named Pancho and his pal Lefty, who eventually betrays him to the Federales. Some people think that “Pancho and Lefty” is about real Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. Mr. Van Zandt said that wasn’t the case, but…
Songwriters extraordinaire Burt Bacharach and Hal David bring us another superb classic song of the day with their tune, “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself.” It was a #3 hit in the UK for Dusty Springfield in 1964, even though it unfortunately failed to chart in the U.S. Burt and Hal wrote “I Just Don’t Know What…