Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Apropos of absolutely nothing, this week we’re featuring classic songs by artists named either Gary, Gerry, or Jerry. (And, yes, that’s a nod to the bumbling character of Garry/Jerry/Larry/Terry Gergich on Parks and Recreation, played by actor Jim O’Heir) So today’s classic song by a Gary, Gerry, or Jerry of the day is “This Diamond Ring” by Gary Lewis &…
Our final classic Yacht Rock song of the day this week is “Baby Come Back” by Player. This tune was enormously successful, hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and staying there for three consecutive weeks in the fall of 1977. Of all the Yacht Rock songs this week, “Baby Come Back” is the least Yachtski. The old Yacht or…
Today’s classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “Biggest Part of Me” by Ambrosia. Released in March of 1980, this track went all the way to #3 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. The old Yacht or Nyacht? website (no longer active) gave this one a Yachtski score of just 72.5, a little low but…
Today’s classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “Love Will Find a Way” by Pablo Cruise. This track was released in May of 1978 and shot all the way to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Love Will Find a Way” is a strong Yacht Rock song, rating a solid 91 on the Yachtski scale at the old Yacht…
Today’s classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “Hot Rod Hearts” by Robbie Dupree. This one was released in June of 1980, prime Yacht Rock season, and got all the way to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. It ranks a little lower on the Yachtski scale (from the old Yacht or Nyacht? website), coming in at an 83.5…
Today’s classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “Lowdown,” the first really big hit for singer Boz Skaggs. This one was from his 1976 album, Silk Degrees, and it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Cash Box Top 100. The single started life as an album track. The first official single from Silk…
Today’s classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “FM (No Static at All)” by those Yacht Rock stalwarts known as Steely Dan. Now, the Dan weren’t known as Yacht Rock at the time (no one was; the genre wouldn’t be identified and named for more than two decades), and they’re certainly not at all like the vapid soft rock…
We’re smack dab in the middle of summer, which means its time for Yacht Rock week here at the Classic Song of the Day blog. With that in mind, your classic Yacht Rock song of the day is “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers. This one was written by two of the three kings of Yacht Rock, Michael…
Over the past few days we’ve looked at songs from some of my favorite girl singers, so it’s inevitable that we’d come to the Queen of Soul. Today’s classic girl singer song of the day is Aretha Franklin’s 1971 classic “Rock Steady,” one of the funkiest tracks ever committed to vinyl. This happens to be a song that Aretha wrote…
Continuing our look at girl singers of the ’60s, we come to one of my favorite singers singing one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite songwriting teams. We’re talking about “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by the divine Dionne Warwick. While “Do You…