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In case you’re wondering what the “B6 Playlist” is, it all originates with a comment last week in the House of Representatives, when the knuckle-dragging sloth from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, made some questionable comments about the appearance of one of her fellow congresswomen – namely, Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Greene referred to her with comments…

For approximately three years in the late 1960’s, a five-man, one-woman rock group from Sydney, Australia became one of that country’s most popular groups – almost as popular as their contemporaries, the Seekers or the Easybeats. Let me introduce you to The Executives, led by the married couple of Brian King and Carol King. They…

On my “Nightowl Radio Show” series, I often put together something called a “sample example,” where a chunk of one song can be heard in a second song. Well, in last week’s broadcast, I showed how one of the biggest worldwide hits of the early 1980’s was actually cobbled from the frame of THREE different…

Eric Carmen passed away over the weekend. Aged 74. And this morning, when I saw the news of his passing, I realized that for a time in the 1970’s and 1980’s, if you wanted a mixture of power pop and symphonic bombast in your Top 40 tracks … you could count on Eric Carmen without…

A few months back, I put together an episode of The Nightowl Radio Show on WHCL where I examined the horrendous and lazy use of Native American imagery and stereotypes and worn-out tropes in popular music. You know the songs … “Indian Lake” by the Cowsills, “Apache” by the Sugarhill Gang, and don’t EVEN ask…

One of these days I might actually put together a radio show that features these off-brand recordings, but for now they’ll do nicely as a K-Chuck Radio blog post. Let me explain. There was once a time when a pop song or a rock song became a worldwide hit. The song was recognizable, it was…

Sometimes you get a song that’s so powerful, so moving, so emotionally stirring that no matter who performs it, you can’t hear a bad version. And in this case, the song I’m talking about is called “Temptation’s About to Get Me.” It was originally written by Jimmy Diggs in 1965, and Diggs performed it with…

Imagine that you’re having a tough morning. And the day isn’t getting any better. Big projects at work. Car’s acting up again. Bill collectors are messaging you with words like “past due” and “final notice” and “shutoff imminent” phrases. Not the kind of things that make you smile. Let me show you something that could…