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I’m breaking my long-standing taboo of participating in wedding photography.  I don’t need to deal with angry bridezillas and even angrier groomzillas.  No.  I don’t even want to deal with the Aunt Penelope-zilla who came all the way from Ypsilanti, Michigan to see her niece finally tie the knot, even though she thinks the groom…

No, this is not a dissertation on the lives of Native Americans.  It’s about a song – written in the early 1960’s – that eventually became a hip hop national anthem. Let me explain. In 1961, Swedish guitarist and instrumentalist Jorgen Ingmann recorded a song called “Apache,” which contains various stereotypical Native American motifs.  You…

It’s a beautiful song.  It’s privacy and meditation in the pop music world.  And there are so many different interpretations of the Gerry Goffin/Carole King ballad, that everybody can pick a favorite. And on this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I want you to pick your favorite version of this song.  I’ve listed five below –…

Fact.  In 1965, Hanna-Barbera – the animation company famous for everything from The Flintstones to The Jetsons, from Yogi Bear to Jonny Quest, released several tie-in record albums with their cartoons.  Usually they would do this though a third party, like Colpix Records, and all would be good.  But by 1965, Hanna-Barbera wanted to branch…

It was January of 1979, and I was listening to American Top 40 on my little radio.  And at that time, Casey Kasem announced that a new record had debuted on the Top 40 charts – and for the first time, it wasn’t a round record. It was actually shaped like a heart – and…

So here’s the challenge.  I’m going to see how many songs, each linked, in on way or the other, to Lewis Carroll’s two famous books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, that I can find for this blog. So here we go. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit Plenty of imagery and borrowing…

Follow along with me on this one.  It’s not unusual for two different musical groups to exist with the same band name.  But when one group takes off to superstardom and the other group simply has a couple of regional hits, well, it can be a bit interesting. Such is the case with this edition…

I’m probably going to catch a lot of heck for inflicting these songs on you. You know what? I don’t care. And I’m guessing you don’t, either. Let’s put it this way.  These songs were once big, big hits on the radio.  Yet today you don’t hear them on the oldies stations, you don’t see…

For those of you who have absolutely no clue who Ian Curtis is… shame on you.  Ian Curtis was the lead singer of Joy Division, one of the seminal punk/new wave bands of the late 1970’s / early 1980’s.  It was Joy Division that later morphed into the band New Order – you know, “Blue…