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I’ve blogged in the past about my affinity for the 1970’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  I’ve mentioned about how I binge-watched it in college, using that and a purchased audience par-ti-ci-pa-tion record to learn the call and response cues.  I’ve penned a K-Chuck Radio blog post about the cultural affinity of the…

If you haven’t heard by now, Hugh Hefner – the man who brought us Playboy magazine and all that came with it and after it – passed away last night at the age of 91.  And while there will certainly be plenty of tributes to the man and his publishing empire and the cultural revolution…

Guys and gals, today I’m bringing you some of the rarest, most unique tracks out there from the Motown Records vaults.  Some of them are early recordings from your favorite artists and groups, some of them are radically altered versions, and some – well, I’ll just let you hear them. As much as Motown was…

What if I told you that one of the most prolific songwriters / singers / performers of rock and roll’s early years – a man who reinvented his career over and over and over again, whose music could be heard throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s – is inexplicably NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall…

Last Friday, I turned 54 years old.  Wow.  Who would have thought I would have made 54 spins around the sun… or, as I’ve said of late … Damn, I’m old. That being said, thank you to everybody who posted birthday greetings on Facebook.  Much appreciated.  See you again next year and we’ll repeat our…

Right now, I want you to name as many vocal harmony a cappella groups – those who can create great songs without the need of an orchestral backdrop.  Ready, set, go. Manhattan Transfer. Pentatonix. The Hi-Los. The Nylons. Take 6. The Beach Boys. Wait, Chuck, you said the Beach Boys?  Dude, you are aware that…

So the big day is tomorrow … tomorrow afternoon, to be precise. And as I drive towards the line of totality, I think to myself about what kind of a soundtrack I could craft in terms of music for an eclipse.  Especially one as special as this one. So crank up the speakers, here’s a…

There was once a time – around the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s – when popular songs were shaved down to a paltry three minutes or less … in order to get more tunes crammed into Top 40 radio.  Although like “Hey Jude” and “American Pie” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” buck the trend of the…

On this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I’m going to dive into the wild and wonderful world of dance music from the 1970’s.  Back when discos stopped calling themselves discotheques. These tracks were monster hits in the clubs and discos, but sadly they’ve drifted off to rarities status.  Except for here, where I dust them off…

The early years of rock and roll music were full of monaural output.  Most kids had monaural single-speaker phonographs, so there wasn’t much of a need to produce a stereophonic version of a Top 40 hit.  Heck, even producer Phil Spector completely eschewed stereo output, believing that his records sounded much better in mono. Mind…