Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Want to listen to some great music? Here’s ten songs all stitched together with a common theme. On an online radio station that I call “K-Chuck Radio”!
This is the God’s honest truth. I was driving home the other night, and my Sirius/XM satellite radio was tuned to channel 33 – the “First Wave” channel. They were in the middle of their “Saturday Night Dance Party” show, in which the songs are segued into one seamless track – for example, the tail…
Read MoreIt’s the late autumn of 1975, and I received a very cool birthday gift from my parents – my own radio. I immediately spun the dial to AM 1540, WPTR – and got hooked on rock and roll. At 9:00 p.m. each night, WPTR would play the top five requested songs. And in the middle…
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To quote the opening lines from a Walt Disney television show, “The world is a wonderful world of color…” And on today’s K-Chuck Radio, I present to you songs that not only reference color, they also make color part of the lyrical metaphor. DON CORNELIUS AND THE SOUL TRAIN GANG Spectrum The classic voice of…
Read MoreA legend passed from our lands yesterday.ย He gave us 94 years of the best folk music of our generation.ย He was also a man of conscience, of conviction and of completeness. With that in mind, please enjoy the music and career of Pete Seeger, first a couple of tracks from his years with the…
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I’m getting tired of this freezing cold weather of late.ย And if I can’t get the temperature outside to go up a bit… Then I want the temperature inside to rise as high as possible. With that in mind… enjoy this batch of K-Chuck Radio clips, each featuring some classic retro R&B.ย I promise, if…
Read MoreI couldn’t resist this.ย And you can’t, either. A while back, I posted some YouTube clips in which the soundtracks to classic motion pictures were replaced with pop songs, causing such incongruities as Laurel & Hardy dancing to the music of Santana. Now, I’ve found a collection of television shows in which the characters are…
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On today’s edition of “K-Chuck Radio,” we look at songs with “Blue” in the title. As long as ‘blue” isn’t the color of your fingers on this icy morning… we should be in good shape.
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I am a HUGE fan of the Dr. Demento show.ย Back when PYX 106 broadcast it every Sunday evening, I would tune in without fail.ย And one of the highlights of the show – among the many highlights – was the Christmas show, in which he would play some of the funniest and crazy Christmas…
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Have you had a rotten day? Are things just piling up and you feel like your head is about to explode like that one scene in Scanners? Well, don’t blame yourself. There’s others that can deserve the blame. And on this edition of K-Chuck Radio, we have some candidates for scapegoatism. JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE…
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First off… Check out the new “K-Chuck Radio” logo.ย Well… until I design a better one, this is the logo that will appear whenever there’s a new K-Chuck Radio blog post. And if you’re a fan of Australian 70’s radio stations, you’ll instantly recognize the “O” as part of the logo of Melbourne radio station…
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