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For those of you who are visiting my blog for the first time, welcome. Every so often I put together a musical blog playlist of ten songs with a theme or an underlying connection. I call it “K-Chuck Radio,” and it’s a great little playlist to listen to while you’re at work, or even if…

As I’m waking up this morning, and trying to figure out why my wristwatch says 7:00 a.m. and the clock on my Time Warner Cable converter says 8:00 a.m… Oh yeah… Daylight Saving Time kicked in. Well, I’m not going to do a K-Chuck Radio blog post about ten songs that count the time, I…

I do these blog posts from time to time. They’re heartbreaking ballads and break-up songs, and I call them my “Armor-Plated Heart” songs. Songs that will bring your emotions to tears, and that none but those with armor-plated hearts will avoid crying all night.  If you’ve had a rough Valentine’s Day weekend, these songs may…

What you’re about to hear is something really intriguing.  What if the one version of a song that you’re used to hearing was actually a song that was designed only for your home town or your home city? Yep.  It happened, at least more than once.  And I have some examples on today’s K-Chuck Radio…

Inspiration for my blog posts can come from several different sources.  Recently, my TU blog bro Ken Screven posted a picture of the Supremes and remarked that this was the anniversary of one of that lineup’s last major hits, “Someday We’ll Be Together.” Yes, it was – at least for the lineup that included Diana…

I crafted a K-Chuck Radio playlist four years ago based on an iPod playlist of mine.  The playlist, called ‘The Armor-Plated Heart,” features a list of emotional, powerful, hold-onto-your-heart-because-it’s-ripping-to-pieces tracks. So it’s been four years since that blog post.  But I’ve added more tracks to that little grouping.  Songs that will help soothe the pain…

I picked up my appreciation of rap and classic old school hip-hop music by assimilation – when your high school classmates bring in the latest 12-inch Sugarhill Records dance tracks, you learn quickly how to hip hop hip hop don’t stop that body rock. And when I spent four years at Hamilton College, being one…

It’s one of the best ways to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder – I gather up as many classic 60’s hits and blast them in my car.  Right now my SiriusXM radio in the Blackbird is tuned to channel 49, “Soul Town,” classic 60’s and 70’s Motown and Philly soul hits. And I feel like sharing…

Last Monday, I wrote a blog post about the eventual demolition of 309 South Broad Street, the home of Philadelphia International Records and the sound of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.  Well, it occurred to me that there are some people out there who are not 100% familiar with “The Sound of Philadelphia,” the tracks…