K-Chuck Radio: Pitch Control

I used to have a massive collection of LP’s and 45’s.  Some 78’s as well.  Now if you’re scratching your head and wondering, “What is he talking about?”  Well, back in the days before CD’s and iTunes, we used to listen to our music on phonograph records. The records would rotate on the turntable in…

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SoundHound versus K-Chuck Radio

Okay, now that I’ve figured out how to operate this BlackBerry Q10, I want to download some toys and games for it. And the first “toy” I chose to download was a program called SoundHound. Apparently SoundHound will allow me to identify a song’s title, artist and lyrics by simply having the cell phone “hear”…

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K-Chuck Radio: Slow Summer Heat

I think the weather is really starting to affect me.  Long, sweltering days, sticky nights.  I’ve done a lot of outdoor events over the Fourth of July weekend, and I need to enjoy some peaceful, relaxing music to get through it all. So let me bring to you some sweltering, sultry, slightly sinful sounds of…

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K-Chuck Radio: More 60’s near-pop hits!!

Let’s start off our day with some classic 1960’s TV show performances of songs that should have been major U.S. hits – unfortunately, these songs either never got released in America, or they just flew completely under the broadcast radar. On today’s K-Chuck Radio, here are some great songs that will help you get revved…

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K-Chuck Radio: Up, Up and AWAY!!

Okay, there’s this movie coming out this weekend.  You know… Man of Steel.  Another retelling of the legend of Superman.  Ought to be a good film. But this isn’t my movie review piece of the blog.  This is the K-Chuck Radio piece of the blog. I’m not concerned about how the film will do at…

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K-Chuck Radio: I gotta add these songs to the iPod…

It’s Friday morning, and I want everybody to be happy and alert – even on a rainy Albany day.  So I gathered a mixture of ten upbeat songs and I want to share them with you.  It may be raining outside, but I hope your soul is warm inside. SIRSY Lionheart How in the world…

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K-Chuck Radio: Somewhere Over the Rainbow…

What a fantastic song.  And to think, at one point in time, this song was almost deleted from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz because someone thought the movie was too long. So let’s start with the version everybody knows. This version. Here’s an interesting version, this is Judy Garland performing with the Tommy…

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