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…
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Want to listen to some great music? Here’s ten songs all stitched together with a common theme. On an online radio station that I call “K-Chuck Radio”!
K-Chuck Radio: It’s Classic Power Pop Time!
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…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: 1970’s Classic One-Hit Wonders!
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.ย These are the oldies that the oldies stations aren’t playing any more.ย …
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Get into the Northern Soul Groove
How does one explain the musical phenomenon known as Northern Soul? Northern Soul music can best be described as danceable, Motown-ish tracks from the 1960’s and 1970’s that regularly pack the Northern England dance clubs.ย These are songs that are extremely rare – some of them were pressed in limited quantities and never sold well…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio takes you to Soul Train, the hippest groove in the land…
For the longest time, the Capital District’s ABC affiliate in the 1970’s, WAST, wouldn’t show American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons.ย Hard to believe, isn’t it?ย Well, it’s true.ย I don’t really remember what they DID show at that time, but it was probably some program that made money for the local station. But while we…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: 70’s Smooth Songs
What I’m playing now are some easy listening classics, the kind of music you heard back in the day when WGY actually played mellow Top 40 music.ย Well, so did WROW, inbetween tracks from the Ray Conniff Singers and the 101 Strings.ย But I digress. So with that in mind, let me blast you back…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: music from my high school days
What I’m playing now are the songs and grooves that I heard in high school.ย These were the tracks that we purchased at Blue Note Record Shop or Midland Records or Record Town or Just A Song.ย Granted, you’re not going to hear too many of these tracks on your local oldies station – which…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: These should have been radio hits!
I’m going to test-drive this feature, where I go back to my radio roots and create this new online blog radio station, “K-Chuck Radio.”ย I used to do this at my old blogspot.com site, so what’s the harm of bringing it over to the TU page? And for this initial blast of “K-Chuck Radio,” I’ve…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Ten Songs that Broke My Heart
This is bad.ย That song should not have been on my driving CD. Here’s the background.ย Because I haven’t wired up my iPod yet to my Saturn Ion Cardachrome, I’ve been burning homemade CD’s through iTunes, and grouping them with themes like “Maple Leaf Rock” (all-Canadian rock and roll), “WHCL” (music from my college radio…
Read MoreTen cover versions of Beatles Songs
Thought you’d appreciate, for the start of the week, hearing how other artists interpreted Beatles classics. Some of them are pretty spot-on, some of them are head-scratching confusing. So, in no particular order, here are ten re-interpretations of Beatles hits – some of them were hits in their own right. THE STITCH IN TYME Got…
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