Music
This is the best, best-known, and best-selling song ever written by Tom T. Hall, who died last week. It’s also the only hit for Jeannie C. Riley. (more…)
Tina Charles – I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance)
22nd August 2021 · 1970s, 1976, Disco, MusicWhen I was 18 I hated disco. I thought it had nothing to do with “proper” music involving men with electric guitars. But there was something about Tina Charles and this infectious earworm that broke through my snobbery.
I Feel Love is so obviously the greatest disco song of all time that no others need apply for the title. But spare a moment for the song that gave Donna Summer her first international hit a couple of years earlier. (more…)
Some of the best pop songs do everything they need to do in less than three minutes. Like this funky little treat.
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Parliament-Funkadelic whip up a fiery furnace of funk on this live version of Flash Light lasting almost half an hour. (more…)
Be My Baby is arguably the single most perfect pop song of all time. And surely Spector’s crowning achievement. (more…)
Nanci Griffith (6 July 1953-13 August 2021) (more…)