Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
For the next few days we’re going to look at some of the best solo tracks by the four Beatles after that legendary group broke up. Let’s start with one of the first of these solo tunes, Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” McCartney wrote “Maybe I’m Amazed” in 1969 during the Beatles’ breakup, shortly after he and Linda were married.…
Today’s classic song of the day was written by a Beatle and recorded by a group that that Beatle found and nurtured. The song is “Come and Get It,” the group is Badfinger, and the Beatle is Paul McCartney. That’s right, Paul McCartney wrote “Come and Get It” back in 1969, for the movie The Magic Christian, which starred another…
Today’s classic song of the day is “Silly Love Songs” by Paul McCartney & Wings. It was released as a single (with “Wings” as the artist) in April of 1976 and was a hit all over the world, hitting the top ten in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. Here in the U.S., “Silly Love Songs” peaked at…
Today’s classic song of the day is my favorite Beatles track and maybe their best track, which is saying a lot given how many great songs this group produced. The song is “A Day in the Life;” never released as a single, it was the concluding track on side two of 1967’s landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.…
Still looking at some of the top tunes of 1971, we come to today’s classic song of the day, “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” by Paul & Linda McCartney. Apple Records released this single on August 2nd of 1971 and it went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 just a month later. Billboard ranked it the #22 song…
Your classic song with a day of the week in the lyrics song of the day is “She’s Leaving Home” by the Beatles. The word “Wednesday” is not in the song’s title but it is the very first word of the very first line of the lyric: Wednesday morning at five o’clockAs the day beginsSilently closing her bedroom doorLeaving the…