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It’s approximately 1979 to 1983.  You’re at the roller rink and the music’s playing and pulsing and you’re skating around the track with your friends.  Great time.  Happy time.  And the music – it was five levels of excellent.  You could hear singers without Auto-Tune.  You could identify all the instruments – even if it…

Okay, on this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I’m going to bring you several audio and video clips from various unknown musicians.  Here’s the rules.  You need to listen to the clip first… and then try to guess what famous singer or group emerged from this early effort.  Ready, set, here we go. 1. This Southern…

First off, make sure you’re ready to rock out this Saturday in Troy, as there will be hot music up and down River Street.  Yep, it’s time for “River Street Riot,” with great music and dancing and food and drinks.  And all the proceeds will help benefit the Arts Center of the Capital Region. Everything…

It’s Saturday morning.  You’re climbing out of bed, rubbing the sleep out of your eyes, and getting ready to face the morning with a dazzling smile. And instinctively, you open up the Venetian blinds.  YOW!! SUNSHINE!!! It’s gonna be a good day. So let’s have a K-Chuck Radio with a ton of great summery pop…

Apparently there’s a news report that James McCartney might be forming a band with Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey and Sean Lennon at some point. Yep.  Apparently the sons of the Beatles are contemplating forming a new generation of Beatles.  I’ll pass over the possible jokes about whether or not they would record their parents’ old…

Bill Winans at WMHT sent me this link to this really cool re-use of vintage computer equipment into something more – shall we say – aesthetically pleasing. Remember the grinding and buzzing of those old floppy disc drives? Remember that whirring and chugging and chitty chitty bang banging they did, almost as if you could…

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 –…