Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
“Traces” by the group Classics IV is today’s classic song of the day. Released as a single in January of 1969, this one went all the way to #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard’s Easy Listening charts. “Traces” was written by Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb, and Emory Gordy Jr. Buie was a songwriter and producer who worked…
Today’s classic song of the day was a hit for three different artists over the course of a decade or so. The song is “Spooky,” and it was written by Mike Sharpe (under his given name, Mike Shapiro), Harry Middlebrooks Jr., James Cobb, and Buddy Buie. Sharpe and Middlebrooks wrote “Spooky” as an instrumental, and Mike Sharpe’s original recording of…