Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Today’s classic song of the day comes from Stevie Wonder and his landmark album, Innervisions. Released as a single in March of 1974, “Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing” peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 on the Cash Box Top 100, #9 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, and #2 on Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles chart. “Don’t You…
Singer Mary Wells brings us today’s classic song of the day, “You Beat Me to the Punch.” Released as a single in July of 1962, it peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 but went all the way to #1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Singles chart. “You Beat Me to the Punch” was written, as were many Motown songs…
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…
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,”…
“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,”…
Today’s classic song of the day is a wonderful little tune by Stevie Wonder. “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” was included on Stevie’s Grammy-winning 1972 album, Talking Book, and released as a single in March of 1973. The single went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Cash Box Top 100, and Billboard Adult Contemporary…
Today’s classic song of the day with a person’s name in the title is “Nathan Jones,” from the Supremes. Released in April of 1971, this Motown single peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 on the Cash Box Top 100, and #8 on Billboard’s R&B chart. “Nathan Jones” was the Supremes’ fifth hit after Diana Ross left the…
I’ve always thought of today’s classic song of the day as an instrumental, but it really isn’t. “Shotgun” by Junior Walker & the All Stars actually has lyrics, and they’re sung by Junior Walker himself. There’s a story behind that. “Shotgun” wasn’t actually recorded by Junior Walker’s real band. Berry Gordy (who co-produced the track with Lawrence Horn) thought the…