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It’s been a popular metaphor for pop music, ballads, breakup songs and the like.  A game of cards.  Whether it’s poker, bridge, Canasta, whatever – the deck of cards, and the games played with them, have worked their way into pop songs for the past fifty years.  And here on K-Chuck Radio, we’re taking the…

I’m just going to say this for the record.  If Hubert Elias McDaniel could have found a way to copyright the rhythm of his hit “Bo Diddley,” he could have made a large fortune.  Because that boom, boom boom, a-boom boom – or, if you can read music, this – has been part of rock…

In the true tradition of Top 40 pop radio, I’m going to list several different music tracks from several different musical genres.  Essentially, you’ll probably find at least one or two songs on K-Chuck Radio that will make you feel good.  Hopefully all ten of them will.  So relax and enjoy and have a good…

What’s the longest song you’ve ever enjoyed?  Stairway to Heaven?  American Pie?  Bohemian Rhapsody?  Hey Jude? Today on K-Chuck Radio, I’m breaking out the mega-long tracks.  These were the songs that, on Top 40 radio, were trimmed to 3:00 – but on the albums, they were uber-extended jams. TOM CLAY What The World Needs Now…

George “Shadow” Morton produced some very stirring and compelling pop and rock songs of the 1960’s. And if I gave you a K-Chuck Radio show last week about Phil Spector’s pop productions, and if I gave you one a few weeks ago about Joe Meek’s sonic symphonies, then how could I leave out the third…

You say “Girl Talk,” you think of a very popular sonic artist who creates collages with sound files and plays them to a very appreciative and enthusiastic audience.  I say “Girl Talk” and I think of an Elvis Costello song that Dave Edmunds had a hit with in the late 1970’s. Oh wait, that was…

Ah, American Bandstand.  We’re going hopping, we’re going hopping today… For over 30 years, this show has entertained teenagers, brought today’s hottest rock and pop stars onstage, and has showcased the newest dance moves.  I could even argue that it, along with Candid Camera, was one of the earliest “reality TV shows,” in that we…

So let’s see here… supposedly we’ve got a massive hurricane or tropical storm a’comin’ our way. Now, we do live between two rivers and a mountain range, which can cause any amount of confusion in the meteorological category.  So, on this very special edition of K-Chuck Radio, I have pulled out some of the stormiest…

In the early 1960’s, many bars and taverns had a special video film player called a Scopitone. With the Scopitone, a person could drop a few coins in a slot, and instead of just hearing the latest pop song – he could also watch the artist sing the song as part of a promotional film.…

Yes yes I know, the conventional wisdom about Phil Spector is that he was a successful record producer who went manic-depressive and is now in a correctional facility for the murder of his girlfriend. Yeah, if you want to shrink it down to the Reader’s Digest version of events… But take this into consideration. Phil…