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Think about this for a second.  If I asked you to name ten different Bee Gees songs RIGHT NOW… I could probably guess nine of them.  Go ahead.  Write down your choices. Let’s see… I’m betting you wrote down “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Tragedy,” “You Should Be Dancing,” “Jive Talkin,”…

It’s 3:00 a.m. Monday morning, and the thoughts of Hurricane Sandy and the Frankenstorms are still going through my half-sleepy mind.  Wow, wouldn’t that be a great name for a hardcore punk band – Hurricane Sandy and the Frankenstorms?  But I digress… So I thought about all the rain-related and storm-related and hurricane-related songs out…

What’s the formula for today’s dance music? An electronic beat, an Auto-Tuned singer, and incessant promotion on radio and on MTV and the like. That was now. This is then. See, I came from a time when the best tracks were stored on big 12-inch records; they usually came with an extended mix from the…

From the late 1960’s until maybe the mid-1970’s, there was a popular type of pop music called “bubblegum.” It incorporated sweet lyrics and nursery rhymes and poppy harmonies and cute singers. It also drove rock and roll purists up the wall. Especially when you get a Top 40 station playing “Stairway to Heaven” and then…

So here’s the game.  On this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I went around the Internet and found a whole slew of “mash-ups” – instances where someone combined two different songs into one sorta seamless melange.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.  Back in the old days, they used to call this a “Medley” – taking…

I truly am a child of the 1970’s.  The music, the television shows, the culture, it’s all part of who I am and what I’ve achieved. So on today’s edition of K-Chuck Radio, I’m going to bless your ears with ten classic hits from the 1970’s – classic monster songs that were big hits back…

Ah, love. It’s out there. Somewhere. I know it’s driven past me a couple of times. Probably knocked me over and kept on driving. That would explain those valentine-shaped tire treads on my back. Ha. Be that as it may, I thought that today on K-Chuck Radio, I would surf through my record collection and…

And I don’t mean “stupid” as in “that’s stupid fresh def, yo.” I mean “stupid” as in “What in the name of Run-D.M.C. were these artists THINKING??????” Trust me.  I have NO problems whatsoever with rap music.  I grew up with it in my high school, I learned to appreciate and enjoy Grandmaster Flash and…

These were monster hits. They topped the charts. They were played until the grooves wore out. Truly, they were monster hits. They just weren’t national hits, in the same sense that Katy Perry could release a song on Tuesday and it would be on every radio station playlist by Tuesday afternoon. We’re talking about the…