Our Zelig-like Contributing Authorrollerboogie 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
Who’d have thought it? That three of 1999’s hits would feature interpolations of hits from: The Jackson 5… Hall and Oates… …or Bruce Hornsby and the Range? The late 2Pac had a posthumous hit with “Changes,” a composition he recorded in 1992 that came out on a greatest hits set late in 1998. By January 1999, it hit Number 32 on the Hot 100. The track uses the piano riff from Hornsby and the Range’s No. 1 hit “The Way It Is” as well as a variation of its chorus. Boy band C Note hit the Top 40 airplay charts
No wallflower, he: It’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, who’s here to teach us tonight about what what was happening musically around this time… in 1955