Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Folksinger/songwriter Kate Wolf was born on this date in 1942, and today’s classic song of the day is one of her finest tunes. The song is “Across the Great Divide,” and it’s an introspective tune about the passage of time and having the emotional resilience to keep moving forward. You can hear it in the lyrics: I’ve been walkin’ in…
It’s likely that you haven’t heard today’s classic song of the day, at least not by the guy who wrote it. I know you’ll like it when you listen to it, however. “Morning Song to Sally” is a beautiful and lyrically moving ode to lost love by singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker. He wrote the song in 1968 and released it…
Today’s classic song of the day is “You Were On My Mind,” a big hit for a quintet appropriately dubbed the We Five. This track was released during the summer of 1965 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 (for five weeks!) on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked the song as the number-four single of…
Today’s classic song of the day is “Love at the Five and Dime,” written and originally performed by songstress Nanci Griffith but made a bona fide hit by Kathy Mattea. Ms. Mattea’s version was released as a single in April of 1986 and made it all the way to #3 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. As I’ve written before,…
Today’s classic sad song of the day is “Tecumseh Valley,” a real tear-jerker written by Townes Van Zandt and best remembered as performed by Nanci Griffith. Townes wrote this one in 1968 and first released it on his For the Sake of the Song album. It was always a staple of his live sets but didn’t get widespread airplay at…
Your angelic song of the day is John Prine’s “Angel from Montgomery.” He wrote it back in 1970 and it first appeared on his self-titled 1971 debut album. It was immediately hailed as a major work and has since been covered by dozens of artists, from Gretchen Wilson and Emmylou Harris to John Denver and Carly Simon (in a contemporaneously…