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Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. This was a President who truly embodied public service. Every family who now lives in a Habitat for Humanity home can thank Jimmy Carter’s commitment and generosity. And while he was President, he helped author the Camp David Accords, the groundbreaking peace plan between Israel and Egypt. And during his…

The Will-O-Bees were a three-member folk trio who, in the 1960’s, recorded several pop songs. Some of them actually became big national and international hits – albeit when someone ELSE recorded those same songs. Let me explain. The Will-O-Bees – former high school classmates Robert Merchanthouse and Janet Blossom, along with close friend Steven Porter…

There are so many tracks in the history of rock and roll where the song is recorded and ready for pressing on 45’s – and in some cases, pressed on 45’s and distributed – only to have someone decide, “Hey, let’s redo this song with another vocal.” And I don’t mean “re-record the entire song,…

It’s not as popular in popular song as it once was, but pop hits that involved smoking, or using cigarettes or cigars as a metaphor, were once as prevalent as modern country songs that mention whiskey. So for today’s K-Chuck Radio broadcast, let’s crack open a hard pack, flippo da zippo, and enter the world…

In case you’re wondering what the “B6 Playlist” is, it all originates with a comment last week in the House of Representatives, when the knuckle-dragging sloth from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, made some questionable comments about the appearance of one of her fellow congresswomen – namely, Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Greene referred to her with comments…

For approximately three years in the late 1960’s, a five-man, one-woman rock group from Sydney, Australia became one of that country’s most popular groups – almost as popular as their contemporaries, the Seekers or the Easybeats. Let me introduce you to The Executives, led by the married couple of Brian King and Carol King. They…

On my “Nightowl Radio Show” series, I often put together something called a “sample example,” where a chunk of one song can be heard in a second song. Well, in last week’s broadcast, I showed how one of the biggest worldwide hits of the early 1980’s was actually cobbled from the frame of THREE different…

Eric Carmen passed away over the weekend. Aged 74. And this morning, when I saw the news of his passing, I realized that for a time in the 1970’s and 1980’s, if you wanted a mixture of power pop and symphonic bombast in your Top 40 tracks … you could count on Eric Carmen without…