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Somewhere between awe and mild panic, you’ll wonder how anyone could track every year-end hit this precisely. In the first of three parts, Contributing Author and Chart Historian Ozmoe delivers a treasure trove of charts that makes you admire the effort and secretly hope you never have to do it yourself. This week: The 60s…
He scored five Top 40 hits and then pulled off the rarest trick in pop: vanishing so completely that even Google seems a little unsure about him. Contributing Author Music Historian gamely follows the breadcrumb trail of Dean Esposito, a man who briefly ruled the charts and then slipped into the witness protection program of 90s music trivia.
Contributing Author and Record Collector Chuck Small takes us through K-Tel’s Sounds Spectacular, a 1975 collection so stuffed with hits it’s practically bursting at the grooves. From Rubettes’ truncated charm to Gloria Gaynor’s disco fire, it’s a record that both dazzles and occasionally asks, “Really? That edit?”
Time-tripping back 51 (!) years, it’s Contributing Author rollerboogie,with a fair and balanced summation of one of the more controversial 12-month periods in 20th century pop music
We can all agree that Contributing Author Chuck Small is anything but a “random” music fan. Nonetheless, Chuck is back with the first of a two-parter that delightfully deploys a uniquely arbitrary method of curation. for a fun and eclectic sonic result
Tangled up in proto-disco with a pair of Bobs, it’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, who’s out on the avenuuuue with what was happening musically around this time… in 1975
Without the electric guitar, popular music as we know it would be inconceivable. In his continuing series about musical innovators, Contributing Author Bill Bois takes a look at the instrument and inventor that changed the world
They say it’s his birthday – and Contributing Author Ozmoe is gonna have a good time – celebrating with great tunes from 1965
Our Zelig-like Contributing Author rollerboogie sure gets around, and is here to share seven tales of chance musical encounters that resulted in a deeper, delightful playlist for all
For one last spin: let’s join Contributing Author Chuck Small for the finale of his epic series that that spanned three decades and jogged our memories as he helped us to recall… … Who sang that ?
With that blue-eyed loving feeling for chart throwbacks, it’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, who’s bringin’ on back what was happening musically around this time… in 1965
Let’s join Contributing Author rollerboogie as he explores the unique instrument known as the female voice
Liverpool meets Nashville: Contributing Author Bill Bois has a review of this week’s Ringo Starr And Friends Benefit Concert at The Ryman