This happens so often in popular music, it’s enough to make your head swim. For a few years, Prince called himself some doodle, which I guess spells out “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” And Sean Combs has been Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, I don’t know, what is it now, Doody, Dundy, Dinghy… Recently…
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Want to listen to some great music? Here’s ten songs all stitched together with a common theme. On an online radio station that I call “K-Chuck Radio”!
K-Chuck Radio: May the Fourth Be With You…
My blog reader Dave reminded me this morning that today is a great and wonderful holiday. For today, May 4th, is the day we celebrate all things Star Wars-related. Why the fourth of May? Man, if I have to explain it … “May the force be with you,” or “May the 4th be with you…”…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: When Comedians Get Funky
At some point in their career, a stand-up comedian will eventually release a comedy album. And eventually, that stand-up comedian will transition from doing a comedy album to performing his own songs. I call this evolution. Sort of. Here on K-Chuck Radio, we have some examples of popular comedians transitioning to the pop and rock…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: It’s a 5 O’Clock World when the whistle blows…
In a previous lifetime, I was a freelance writer for the music magazine Goldmine. One of my feature stories involved an interview with all four members of the Vogues, the 1960’s vocal harmony group that had several major adult contemporary and pop hits. Bill Burkette, the lead baritone, was one of the original founding members…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The Beauty of Spectropop
Spectropop is a nickname given to full-sounding orchestral pop songs of the 1960’s, as if the track was augmented with rock instruments and plenty of reverb. You might also know it as a “Gold Star Single” or a “Wall of Sound” track. In Spectropop songs, the singer was as much an instrument as the drums…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: That’s song’s about WHAT?!?!?
Here’s the thing. The majority of pop and rock songs are about love – love earned, love lost, love wished for, love enduring. This is a common theme in popular music. Also common in popular music is a song with a hidden meaning. Yes, the song may be about something acute, but the lyrics might…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Another dive into my college radio days…
From 1981 to 1985, I spent most of my college time at the studios of our college station, WHCL. 88.7 FM on the left side of your dial, don’tcha know. On occasion, I’ve blogged about the myriad of records we played at that station, as we grew from a five-watt low-power station that nobody could…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The Evolution of “Solid Rock”
It’s the winter of 1982, and through a friend in Australia who sends me Oz Rock records, I discover the rock band Goanna – a rock band with a social conscience. I also discover their #1 hit “Solid Rock” – a charging beat with a powerful statement to return tribal lands that were yanked away…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: More One-Hit Wonders from the 1970’s
I’ve found an Internet radio station that broadcasts classic American Top 40 episodes – they’ll play one from the 1970’s, then follow it up with an episode from the 1980’s. And in listening to these compilations – all hosted by radio legend Casey Kasem – you discover that there were some amazing songs out there…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The Monster Soulful Groove
Sometimes, there’s a song out there that captures your consciousness. It makes you smile, it surges your emotions, it takes you to a place you weren’t expecting to visit. So on today’s K-Chuck Radio, I felt like bringing some powerful music to you. Soaring vocals, emotive lyrics, spectacular harmonies. And let’s start with… THE MAGIC…
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