Music Monday: A post from decade ago, but a poignant reminder

| June 23, 2025

A repeated Music Monday song, but I could help but think about it after spending the week with my granddaughters and families who were both with us this past week and weekend. A lousy, but socially needed, “Music Monday” message: While eating lunch at Wendy’s over the weekend, I notice a father and his young […]

Music Monday: John Cougar – “Ain’t Even Done With The Night”

| June 16, 2025

A streaming station notification on my iPhone came up last week as a reminder that I haven’t listen to Pandora since walking the beach — I do miss that.  Lately it has been far more convenient to tune in SiriusXM in the car or on my phone while connected to WiFi around the house. Since […]

Music Monday: Luke Combs and “When It Rains, It Pours”

| June 9, 2025

Let’s go in the country music direction for this week’s Music Monday. I heard a song by Luke Combs called “When It Rains, It Pours” about a month ago and sent myself an email since it immediately appealed to me. There’s not much in the song about Morton Salt, but it did trigger the memory. […]

Happy Anniversary Brenda … and a few more interesting maps

| June 5, 2025

Brenda and I have successfully made another “trip around the sun” together, as the Jimmy Buffett and Martina McBride song goes — 43 years now if my math is correct. We are now unofficially middle-aged in “married” years!     Jimmy Buffett & Martina McBride – “Trip Around The Sun” | 2004 In the past […]

Music Monday: Linda Ronstadt recorded Phil Everly song “When Will I Be Loved” in 1975, as did Vince Gill in 1994

| June 2, 2025

Although I mentioned the song “When Will I Be Loved” before on Music Monday … with the Linda Ronstadt version and her 1976 live performance in Germany … but didn’t realize that Vince Gill recorded the Everly Brothers song about 20 years later in 1994. Gill’s version was used in the the movie “8 seconds” which […]

Music Monday: “18 Summers” – Matthew West on Memorial Day

| May 26, 2025

Although Memorial Day posts have generally been focused on honoring and remembering on MDB, I’m breaking the tradition and will include a Music Monday song titled “18 Summers” from the Christian artist Matthew West. It so happened that my daughter sent his YouTube video and a comment regarding college and her girls (still a decade […]

Music Monday: Gordon Lightfoot – “Carefree Highway” … again

| May 19, 2025

After starting a Music Monday post to include Gordon Lightfoot singing “Carefree Highway,” it occurred to me that I’ve likely posted the same song on MDB before? Of course I did … back in December 2018! Uh-oh … this must be a sign?     Gordon Lightfoot   “Carefree Highway” Gordon Lightfoot is to Canada […]

There are great patriots in America who still honor the late Congressional Medal of Honor receipient Ed “Too Tall” Freeman

| May 14, 2025

One never knows the connections that might be made online these days — and not all of them are of the negative variety.  I had the pleasure of talking with Bill Rogers from New York who happened to run across my MDB post from 2016 on Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Ed “Too Tall” Freeman […]

Music Monday: “The Morning After” by Maureen McGovern

| May 12, 2025

Before leaving Florida and driving back to Ohio this spring, we waited a little longer in able to update and install fiber for our Internet and TV at the condo in Delray Beach. Although Xfinity has been stable, the BlueStream Fiber combined services was newly contracted by the HOA — it’s actually a big improvement […]

Music Monday: Jimmy Buffett – “That’s What Living Is To Me”

| May 5, 2025

I downloaded a memory song social media from 1988 that brought back fond memories and calming thoughts. Jimmy Buffett was my “go-to” music back in the late 1970s and 1980s while daydreaming of sailing the islands and clear waters of the Caribbean — yes, a fantasy or a dream. 😉 “That’s What Living Is to […]

Music Monday: “If Not For You” and the Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Olivia Newton John connection

| April 28, 2025

“If Not for You” is a song by Olivia Newton-John that was released as a single in March 1971 and became her first hit single, peaking at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart and number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US … and is today’s Music Monday song. The song was […]

Tech Friday: A Linux server snapshot and WordPress 6.8 update

| April 25, 2025

Today’s Tech Friday post is a full Linux server backup, a snapshot and finally an update that includes one that brings WordPress to 6.8. Nobody really cares until something doesn’t work … including me!  WordPress 6.8 is code named “Cecil” … in keeping with jazz music pioneers, this one Cecil Taylor.  Cecil Taylor was an […]

Music Monday: CAIN performing “Landslide” and “Lifeline”

| April 21, 2025

My daughter recommended the Christian band CAIN to me last month. She thought that I would enjoy their music … and remembered that I used the lyrics from “Landslide” in our Christmas 2011 Letter; also she knew Brenda and I both enjoyed Rumours of Fleetwood Mac in 2018 (music from our era). 😉      […]

Music Monday: “R.O.C.K. in the USA” – John Mellencamp

| April 7, 2025

This week, I’m cranking up the volume with John Mellencamp’s 1985 hit “R.O.C.K. in the USA,” a spirited salute to the rock vibes of the 1960s. The song was released as the third single from his album Scarecrow, this track climbed to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the Top Rock Tracks […]

Music Monday: The Young Rascals and the 1967 song Groovin’

| March 31, 2025

Occasionally Music Monday shifts back a decade to the 1960s. This week it is to the song “Groovin’,” released in April 1967 by The Young Rascals. It also became a defining anthem for the Summer of Love. The song was written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and has  smooth harmonies, a gentle rhythm and […]

Music Monday: “Ramblin’ Man” by The Allman Brothers Band

| March 24, 2025

Last week a post on X.com regarding “best jam song for a long drive” triggered other longer driving songs in my mind. I chimed in on the “car guy” thread and picked one out of the list of 4 songs … my vote was “Band on the Run” from the list, but it could have […]

Music Monday: Naked Eyes – “Always Something There To Remind Me”

| March 17, 2025

While listening to Pandora’s version of 1970’s music last week, I picked up a song that “reminded” me of 1982, the year Brenda and I were married. The song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s and originally recorded as a demo by Dionne Warwick in 1963; it was “Always Something There To Remind Me.” […]

Music Monday: Fleetwood Mac – “Over My Head” 2017 remastered

| March 10, 2025

Although Fleetwood Mac has been mentioned several times times before on Music Monday, here is “Over My Head” (Christine McVie) remastered in 2017 from one of my favorite albums. I can’t say Pandora on the Apple Watch is the best way to listen to music (the iPhone is much better), but it does help save […]

Music Monday: John Mellencamp and “Cherry Bomb” (1987)

| March 3, 2025

For the fun of it, I veered from using SiriusXM and went with an old favorite streaming service, Pandora, for a couple days … because it streams on my Apple Watch to my AfterShokz headset. One of the songs being streamed was the 1987 hit by John Cougar Mellencamp (mentioned before) called “Cherry Bomb.”  Likely […]

Music Monday: Stevie Wonder and “Superstition” from 1972

| February 24, 2025

“Superstition” is probably one of Stevie Wonder’s most famous songs and was a standout hit in 1972 from his album Talking Book. While listening to 70’s music earlier in the month, I grabbed a SiriusXM screenshot and thought it would be a great addition to Music Monday. The song was the first single from the […]

Music Monday: Barry Manilow and his 1974 hit “Mandy”

| February 17, 2025

Although this season’s blowout of a Super Bowl has been almost forgotten by all but Philadelphia Eagles fans (and definitely forgotten by Kansas City Chiefs fans), the halftime show stands out as one I could have easily pass on. To each their own I suppose?  Anyway, some of the chatter on social media was “why […]

Music Monday: Stumbled back to the 1960s for some good vibes

| February 10, 2025

The Music Monday post was prepped prior to the Super Bowl ads … but after seeing this one, I had to include it (see tomorrow for Super Bowl post). Too late … I’ve already started today’s Music Monday post and only then realized the song was also posted five years ago. 😉 But as I […]

Music Monday: “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” from 1972

| February 3, 2025

“Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” is a folk and country music track written by Danny O’Keefe and first recorded in 1967, but not released until it appeared on his self-titled debut album in 1971. It was re-recorded a year later with a slower, more downbeat arrangement for his second album, which was then released […]

Music Monday: Steely Dan and “Reelin’ In The Years” #video

| January 27, 2025

“Reelin’ In the Years,” a song by American rock band Steely Dan was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The song features Fagen on vocals and is an early example of their easily recognized sound. I found it interesting to read that Fagen thought it “dumb but effective,” and Becker said it was “no […]

Music Monday: “It Never Rains in Southern California” (1972)

| January 13, 2025

While listening to a 1970 oddity song this week as the wildfires ravaged areas around Los Angeles California, a song by Albert Hammond (co-written by Mike Hazlewood) triggered Music Monday thoughts. It is an “oddity” in that “It Never Rains in Southern California” is the only hit I remember Albert Hammond recording (photo upper left […]

Music Monday: “One Particular Harbor” by Jimmy Buffett (1983)

| January 6, 2025

A newly married friend recently returned from his honeymoon in a beautiful and tropical location. He sent a photo overlooking the turquoise water of a harbor filled with anchored boats. It definitely pulled at my “dream” strings and has me missing boats and the sailing life. As the cold weather continues to make me think […]

Music Monday: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: “From The Beginning”

| December 30, 2024

Today’s Music Monday song is from 1972, a few years before my music listening days, but the supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer was definitely played on stereos during my college dorm listening years. The album Trilogy featured Greg Lake’s song “From The Beginning” which became the progressive rock band’s highest ranking U.S. single at #39 […]

Music Monday: “Christmas Island” – Jimmy Buffett (1996)

| December 23, 2024

It may not be the “best” … or even a “favorite” Christmas song … or even a thoughtful Music Monday song that puts us in the snowy, wintery, Christmas spirit. Still, Jimmy Buffett’s “Christmas Island” from 1996 seems about right this year since the decorations are minimal and I’m already thinking about warmer weather. It […]

Music Monday: Stills-Young Band – “Long May You Run” (1976)

| December 16, 2024

It is probably time for me to start listening to Christmas music, but I’m still stuck on SiriusXM “The Bridge” and stumbled across another great song from my high school and college years. So for today’s Music Monday, here’s a song by the Stills-Young Band (Stephen Stills and Neil Young) from 1976 called “Long May […]

Music Monday: KC and the Sunshine Band – “Get Down Tonight”

| December 9, 2024

There’s no getting away from highlighting music from the 1970s on Music Monday — I can’t help myself. 😊  While listening to the segment-change music on a Fox Business show, KC and the Sunshine Band’s “Get Down Tonight” from 1975 caught my ear. I realized that Harry Wayne Casey and his band was highlighted before in […]

Music Monday: “Turn! Turn! Turn!” recorded by The Byrds

| December 2, 2024

For Music Monday this week, let’s go way back to a song Pete Seegar wrote in 1959 called “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season),” but really didn’t peak on the musical charts until it was recorded by The Byrds in 1965, on an album that same name. It is hard for me […]

Music Monday: “Life is A Highway” and a VW waterpump failure

| November 25, 2024

Not that my daughter appreciated that her 2018 VW Tiguan left her stranded on the “highway” … but sometimes automotive breakdowns are a part of “life.” So it seemed somewhat appropriate to feature the catchy Tom Cochrane‘s “Life is A Highway” as today’s Music Monday song. Sorry about the water pump failure Katelyn!  Tom Cochrane originally […]

Music Monday: Lobo – “Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend”

| November 18, 2024

Although I listened to a fair amount of “easy listening” music through the years and have posted music by Lobo years ago on Music Monday, I don’t recall listening to his 1972 song back in the day. According to Wikipedia, Kent LaVoie (Lobo) released the “Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend” on his “Of […]

Music Monday: Jimmy Buffett – “Hey, That’s My Wave”

| November 11, 2024

My buddy Jeff decided to make a detour from his business appointment in NYC and drive to the end of Long Island “just” to grab a lobster roll and beer at the Shagwong tavern … because he is a lifetime Jimmy Buffett parrothead. I’m not sure there is a more devoted fan … unless it […]

Music Monday: “Midnight Special” recorded by CCR (1969)

| October 28, 2024

I enjoyed a some Creedence Clearwater Revival last week on my headphones while walking. While having listened their version of “Midnight Special” many times before, it has never been included as a Music Monday selection.     Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Midnight Special” | 1969 Shocking to me was just how many bands performed the […]

Music Monday: Simon and Garfunkel continued with “Cecilia”

| October 21, 2024

After late last month’s Music Monday song from Simon and Garfunkel, it was difficult not to include the Side-A song at some point … and better sooner than too much later. “Cecilia” was first recorded by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel for their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. It reached #4 in the US […]

Music Monday: Willie Nelson singing “On The Road Again” (1979)

| October 14, 2024

A quick song for Music Monday that is fitting for today. “On The Road Again” is from Willie Nelson in his prime … and one that everybody knows, probably by heart. If you don’t know the song or the artist, you haven’t lived long enough. 😊  

Music Monday: Simon and Garfunkel and the wonderful folk song, “The Only Living Boy in New York”

| September 30, 2024

While out and about, the 1969 folk music song by Simon and Garfunkel popped up on SiriusXM. I was sure I included it once before for Music Monday, but it has been a while so here’s “The Only Living Boy in New York” from 55 years ago. Wow!  Interestingly it was a Side-B song (‘Cecilia’ […]

Music Monday: How about Gene Cotton from a 1978 hit song?

| September 23, 2024

While out and about the other day, the song “Before My Heart Finds Out” popped on SiriusXM’s The Bridge channel. I recalled the song from 1978, but not the artist Gene Cotton. According to a Wikipedia post, it was from his 8th album, Save the Dancer and “became his greatest hit reaching number 23 on […]

Music Monday: Linda Ronstadt and “When Will I Be Loved”

| September 16, 2024

It has been a longtime since I’ve turned up the radio louder than normal in the car (my Menieres issues) … actually I can’t remember when; it has been that long. Anyway, over the weekend I was running out to the hardware store and picking up Brenda’s favorite takeout, Chinese “Sweet and Sour Chicken” while […]

Feel good snippet from X.com — The plus side of Social Media

| September 9, 2024

Music Monday: “I Will Play For Gumbo” by Jimmy Buffett (live)

| September 9, 2024

Back during COVID, Americans were not able to eat out the way we once did. Our habits in the Corbett household changed a bit, although we actually started cooking a bit more after our favorite restaurant closed (we were no longer just tossing food in the microwave or on the grill). One of the things […]

Music Monday: Labor Day and listening to “Marina Del Rey”

| September 2, 2024

Happy Labor Day 2024! It’s a great day (weekend) to listen to No Shoes Radio on my AfterShokz Aeropex bone conduction headset. For those unfamiliar with them, I’ve been a fan of the “open ear” headset concept since 2017 as they’ve been super helpful in returning “some” vibration hearing back to my deaf right ear […]

Music Monday: Bob Marley (OM) and “Three Little Birds”

| August 26, 2024

Bob Marley and The Wailers performing at the Crystal Palace Concert Bowl on The Summer of ’80 Garden Party on June 7, 1980 Here’s some music from my era, but because it is reggae, it is not typical for me or for  Music Monday.     Bob Marley and the Wailers“Three Little Birds” | 1980 “Three […]

Music Monday: Going way back to mono recorded music with the Rolling Stones recording of “Time On My Side” (1964)

| August 19, 2024

After a mention of the phrase “time is on my side,” by an unmentioned Fox Business personality who thought it was a Rolling Stones title … it quickly lent itself to my Music Monday research list. It was “semi-correct” … but the song was actually “Time On My Side” and it was released first by […]

Music Monday: “Arizona” from 1970. Where is the midwest?

| August 12, 2024

First … Happy Birthday Brenda. We’ll celebrate with KDAE over the weekend in a few days. Where is the Midwest in the United States? Someone posted a map from the WSJ that mentioned it is geographically not where most people think it is — or where they call themselves Midwesterners.  I outlined in yellow where […]

Music Monday: “Tin Cup Chalice” by Jimmy Buffett and memories

| August 5, 2024

It would be nice “to go back to the islands” …  well maybe going back in time to when we took a trip down A1A (Florida highway and Jimmy Buffett’s 1974 album title) and drove down to Key West. I sort of want to do it again, although I suspect Key West is no longer […]

Music Monday: Testing something new with SiriusXM app

| July 29, 2024

Although today’s Music Monday post may seem just a little techie or odd, I’m trying something new using the borrowed iPhone XS and SiriusXM app. It does bring me back to the days of my cassette deck (photo above) and making tapes off the radio (I wish I still had it). I do suspect that […]

Music Monday: Heart and their hit “Dreamboat Annie” from 1977

| July 22, 2024

The music from the 1970s never fails to catch my ear when I’m listening to the segment music to the Fox Business programming that I listen to during the weekdays. A song by Heart was used on Varney & Co segment change and then again played on SiriusXM’s The Bridge over the weekend. So for […]

My first impression wth the iPhone 15 Pro and a Classic Rewind

| July 15, 2024

It may not be the latest and greatest new iPhone (just like Classic Rewind music), but due to leaving my old iPhone 7 Plus in my pocket while going into the pool, I was forced to make a quick decision … even though my buddy Jeff loaned me his iPhone XS for a few days […]

Music Monday: Replaying the song “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon and the drowning of my Apple iPhone 7 Plus

| July 8, 2024

Today’s Music Monday is a redux of a previous post regarding the popular 1973 song “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon song (of Simon and Garfunkel and solo fame). The song came up in a conversation on Sunday afternoon with Megan and Taylor as they were showing a “slides” wall display of hundreds of old transparencies all mounted […]

Music Monday: Alabama and “Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’)”

| July 1, 2024

It is hard to believe that the country music band “Wild Country” from Fort Payne, Alabama, now known as “Alabama” has been around since 1969? I was surprised. The band’s popularity exploded in the late 1970s and early 1980s after 2 hit songs in 1977 and a record deal with RCA Records (about the time […]

Music Monday: Wings and “Band On The Run”

| June 24, 2024

After starting this Music Monday post, I realized the song “Band On The Run” has been mentioned a couple of times before. Once with Paul McCartney’s band Wings … and the other Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers.  Nevertheless, the song caught my ear when on SiriusXM’s station The Bridge, so I’ll include it again for […]

Music Monday: AI finds Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”

| June 17, 2024

While exploring a little bit with a “new found” AI client … Perplexity.AI … I used it to find an oddity from the 1970s for Music Monday by asking: “What decade has the most influential music?“ Based on the search results, there is no clear consensus on the most influential decade for music, as different […]

Music Monday: Listening to a favorite by Van Morrison

| June 10, 2024

Most likely it has been included before in the many Van Morrison highlighted Music Monday mentions, but when hearing “Into the Mystic” pop up on SiriusXM’s station The Bridge, it will get recognized again. So for today, here’s the song surgeons to listen to while performing operations. It’s also a taste of what I’m listening […]

Music Monday: Shakin’ ani-gif reminded me of Jerry Lee Lewis

| June 3, 2024

Some “before my time” 1950’s music was triggered by this animated gif from 150 or so years ago.  It’s “The Killer,” Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022), and his 1955 song, “Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On” that is today’s Music Monday song … which likely means I should mention, “Great Balls of Fire” from 1957 too […]

Music Monday: Chicago and “Old Days” from 1975

| May 20, 2024

It has been a few years, but I can still see my “puffed-cheek tuba playing roommate” (mentioned before) practice playing the orchestrated music of Chicago in our Founders Hall dorm room at ONU. Great memories. So for this week’s Music Monday, after hearing “Old Days” on the SiriusXM 70son7 channel, here’s the #5 hit from 1975 […]

Music Monday: Gordon Lightfoot Live on The Midnight Special

| May 13, 2024

On the NBC television music program “The Midnight Special” on December 13th 1974, Gordon Lightfoot performed a live version of his hit “Sundown.” The late Gordon Lightfoot has been highlighted several times before and even included “Sundown” in a post 7 years ago for Music Monday … but I enjoyed this live video version as […]

Music Monday: Weird Al Yankovic and “The Saga Begins”

| May 6, 2024

If you’ve followed Music Monday entries in the past, you might have noticed a post or two have been generated by Fox Business segment breaks. On Friday, Stu Varney’s producers slipped in “The Saga Begins” a parody song by Weird Al Yankovic from 1999. I thought to myself, the short 15 second audio-only segment does […]

Music Monday: Fleetwood Mac and “Rhiannon” from 1976

| April 29, 2024

Earlier this year, someone on my X.com feed included a Fleetwood Mac video from 1976. I saved it remembering how nearly all of us in Founders Hall at ONU who were listening to albums on our turntables, reel to reels, 8-tracks or cassette decks enjoyed their music. One of the favorite songs … of many […]

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