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David Bowie passed away today.  I still don’t believe it.  It’s still a shock. His music was exciting and inventive, his ability to meld theatrics with rock music made him one of the few true geniuses of our generation. And if you need an essential David Bowie’s greatest hits today, if you just want to…

We’re so conditioned to our spiritual music to be reverent and respectful.  I mean, let’s face it.  We’re singing about our Lord and Savior. That being said, sometimes you get a song or a melody or a homily that takes a rather “cheeky” approach to religion.  Sometimes it’s an interpretation of religion as a football…

Every so often, I find that the songs of my past have disappeared from oldies radio.  Even the ones that made the Top 10 have somehow, unexpectedly, disappeared into the audiophonic ether. With that in mind, here’s a batch of 70’s hits that are still bouncing around in my memory, even if I don’t hear…

During the holiday season, I usually swap out a couple of my preset SiriusXM radio channels to their dedicated Christmas music channels.  One button this year is set for SiriusXM’s Holly station (13), while another is tuned to SiriusXM’s “Holiday Traditions” station (18). And this year, I noticed something different on the Holly station.  There…

Pop music in the 1970’s was a unique and varied mix.  There were easy-listening ballads, bouncy disco tracks, classic rock songs.. And then, probably every ninth or tenth song on your radio station’s playlist… was a song that just made you laugh.  Giggle.  The song was funny and satirical and you caught yourself humming it…

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,…