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Okay.  We know that many songs have two different recordings – one “clean” version, which can be played on radio and television (example: The Steve Miller Band’s “Jet Airliner” talking about those “funky kicks going down in the city”); and one “mature” version, which has a curse word here or there, maybe a lyric with…

Can I let you in on a secret?  That oldies radio station you enjoy so much?  It’s not playing your records the way the music producers in the 1960’s intended those songs to be heard. And no, I don’t mean that they’re in a digital format now. See, back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, it…

Back in the day, “easy listening” music didn’t have screaming guitars, screaming vocalists, or anything else that screamed.  It was mellow music (probably what you might call “Yacht Rock” today).  And the lyrics were cool – mostly about love and relationships, sometimes inspirational, sometimes wistful. So if K-Chuck Radio became an easy listening station today……

It seems like a generation ago that this little startup record company came along and tried to conquer the world.  Rocshire Records, an independent label from Anaheim, signed a slew of artists, and within a few years it blasted through on its way to conquering the music world.  Grammy Awards, gold records, worldwide tours… Yeah,…

There’s something special about “sunshine pop” – the music that just makes you feel good, it has an amazingly catchy melody, and the lyrics can be about anything – childhood games, allusions to history, wry lyrics with a dulcet hint of happiness. So even though this weekend we must deal with rain and storms and…

This insomnia has been kicking my tail for a while.  And it affected me over the weekend, while I was in Buffalo on business. So I flipped around the hotel television dial one night and found the NHK world channel.  NHK is the home of Japanese television, and in the middle of the night they…

There are happy songs, there are angry songs – and then there are the songs that bring your emotions to the boil.  The ones that are the equivalent of a half-gallon of ice cream and a TV tuned to Investigation Discovery. On today’s K-Chuck Radio, let’s go through a few of those emotional classics.  Bring…

Sometimes I get frustrated when I listen to popular music.  It’s 95% junk.  It’s 97% fluff.  And I say to myself, “The music I enjoyed in the 197o’s wasn’t this painful, was it?” And then I realize… there were a few chunks of pyrite and feldspar in the gold that was part of my musical…

What if I told you that these three men were responsible for at least ten different pop hits under ten different names? Yeps.  It happened and it happened a lot. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, it was not uncommon for an artist to add his vocals to a studio track, and then have…