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Okay, break out the ibuprofen.  This is gonna hurt. There are songs that are sacrosanct.  They are the perfect melodies and the perfect memories.  You can’t imagine anyone else but Elvis Presley recording “Jailhouse Rock.”  You can’t imagine anyone but Kurt Cobain singing “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”  Right?  Right. That, however, has not stopped some…

It’s coming. Not to America, but it’s coming. For over 50 years, there has been a European music contest that dwarfs American Idol or America’s Got Talent or any other music competition program. It’s the Eurovision Song Contest, in which each country sends a singer or a group or a band and they perform for…

Unless you’re a dedicated musicologist – or you grew up in England in the 1960’s – you may never have heard of Joe Meek.  Joe Meek was one of the greatest pop music producers of the 1960’s, with over 40 hits in England – and a #1 hit in America.  He was one of the…

I suppose some of the greatest music from the 1970’s would entail the work of artists like David Bowie – or Elton  John – or the Ramones – or Boston – or Fleetwood Mac.  No arguments there.  None. But there was also a subgenre of music which I derisively refer to as the “Cheezy Classics”…

Ah, wedding songs.  The perfect audio track for that perfect moment in your life.  And the organist is playing… Here comes the bride… last chance to hide… But what if you’re approaching the wedding with equal portions of apprehension, nausea, regret and unrest?  What if the girl you loved is walking up the aisle with…

Here’s another batch of hits that, no matter how long you listen to your local oldies station, they aren’t getting any airplay.  And of course, this is despite the fact that they were actually decent radio hits at the time of their release.  But I suppose when your playlist requires you to play Blackstreet’s “No…

Imagine if your country was bombarded by the two strongest musical influences of the 1960’s – the Beatles and Motown. You’re hearing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “You Can’t Hurry Love” on the radio every 20 minutes or so, and you form a band and you either cover these classics, or you write your…

This week, K-Chuck Radio brings you some classic “power pop” songs. These are the tracks that show a strong influence by the Beatles, the Who and the Kinks – along with a mixture of classic American pop music like the Box Tops and the Rascals. Again, many of these tracks may not have gotten the…

One of these days I’m going to order one of those customized radio jingles. “You’re tuned to K-Chuck Radio, ten commercial free songs right here, so crank up your computer speakers and jam along with the best sounds of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  These are the oldies that the oldies stations aren’t playing any more. …