Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Building off yesterday’s “Dancing in the Moonlight,” today’s classic moonlight-themed song of the day is “Moonlight Feels Right” by a band called Starbuck. No, they are not affiliated by the coffee chain, although if they formed a few years later no doubt they would have been sued for appropriating part of the name. “Moonlight Feels Right” was released in December…
Last week was all dance songs here at the Classic Song of the Day blog, so let’s carry it forward another day with “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest, an otherwise unremarkable French-American band. Sherman Kelly wrote it back in 1969, recorded it in 1970 with his band Boffalongo, then his brother Wells Kelly rerecorded it with his band…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Do You Want to Dance,” which was a hit for three (actually four, if you count the UK) artists in three different decades. “Do You Want to Dance” was written by Bobby Freeman, a black teenager from San Francisco. Mr. Freeman was just 17 years old when he released his version of…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Save the Last Dance for Me” by the Drifters. Released in August of 1960, it spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was written by the legendary songwriting team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and produced by the equally (if not more so) legendary Jerry Leiber and…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston. This track, released in 1987, was a huge hit, reaching the #1 position on charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany, and the UK. Here in the U.S. it hit…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Land of 1000 Dances.” This song mentions a ton of then-current dance favs, but not quite a thousand—the Pony, the Chicken, the Mashed Potato, the Alligator, the Watusi, the Twist, the Fly, the Jerk, the Tango, the Yo-Yo, the Sweet Pea, the Hand Jive, the Slop, the Bop, the Fish, and the…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells, a group that can dance just as good as they walk. It hit #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Rhythm and Blues charts in March of 1968. It ended up selling more than a million copies, classifying it as RIAA Gold.…
Today’s classic dancing song of the day is a big one: “Dancing Queen” by ABBA. The group recorded it in August of 1975 and released it as a single internationally a year later, in August of 1976. The song hit #1 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Sweden, the…
Put on your dancing shoes because we’re starting a week of dancing songs at the Classic Song of the Day blog. First up is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s feisty “Down at the Twist and Shout,” a Cajun-flavored number that was a big country hit in 1992. It rose all the way to #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks…
Today’s classic ’70s song of the day is “Ride Captain Ride” by the group Blues Image. It was released in the spring of 1970 and shot up the charts to hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 9 of that year. “Ride Captain Ride” was written by the band’s singer, Mike Pinera, and keyboardist, Frank “Skip” Konte. It…