Music Monday: Stumbled back to the 1960s for some good vibes
RichC | February 10, 2025
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Music Monday: “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” from 1972
RichC | 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
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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
RichC | 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
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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”
RichC | September 30, 2024
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Music Monday: How about Gene Cotton from a 1978 hit song?
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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
RichC | September 9, 2024
Music Monday: “I Will Play For Gumbo” by Jimmy Buffett (live)
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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)
RichC | 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?
RichC | August 12, 2024
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Music Monday: “Tin Cup Chalice” by Jimmy Buffett and memories
RichC | 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
RichC | 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
RichC | 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
RichC | 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
RichC | July 8, 2024
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Music Monday: Alabama and “Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’)”
RichC | 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”
RichC | June 24, 2024
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Music Monday: AI finds Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”
RichC | 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
RichC | June 10, 2024
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Music Monday: Shakin’ ani-gif reminded me of Jerry Lee Lewis
RichC | 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
RichC | 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
RichC | 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”
RichC | 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
RichC | 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 […]
Music Monday: “Dreams” by the Cranberries
RichC | April 22, 2024
In 1990s, well after I was focused on listening to whatever new songs were popular, the Irish band “The Cranberries” was making music that caught my ear. Previously, I posted on the alt rock song “Linger” for Music Monday, but today will highlight their music video for “Dreams” after hearing it as FoxBusiness segment music. […]
Should be a Music Monday, but a 4/18/2024 RIP Dickey Betts
RichC | April 20, 2024
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Music Monday: From 2004, “I Go Back” by Kenny Chesney
RichC | April 15, 2024
It seems like it has been a while since Music Monday has highlighted Kenny Chesney? Maybe it hasn’t been that long, but then again, it has been a year … and I haven’t been streaming the No Shoes Radio channel on SiriusXM for a while lately. That aside, I did listen for a while while working […]
The financial markets have been precarious this past week as tensions between Israel and Iran ratched up
RichC | April 13, 2024
Iran has threatened to retaliate for an attack in Damascus, Syria, that Tehran said was an Israeli airstrike on a diplomatic building. The strike killed several top Iranian military officials, including a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force. According to the WSJ on Friday, “the U.S. rushed warships into position […]
Music Monday: “My Maria” – hit in 1973 by B.W. Stevenson
RichC | April 1, 2024
It seems shocking, or at least it surprised me, that Louis Charles B.W. (BuckWheat) Stevenson’s popular hit “My Maria” had not been mention as a Music Monday song? I happened to hear it last month on SiriusXM’s 70’s on 7 and jotted it down to check the blog. I did find the Three Dog […]
Music Monday: Steve Miller Band – “Jet Airliner” LIVE in 2007
RichC | March 25, 2024
A Twitter/X.com social media contact from FoxBusiness, Brian Brenburg, is a “DollarVinyl” shopper. He is always posting album covers that he finds for “a buck.” In January 2024 he posted one from The Steve Miller Band … that I once owned (college days and pre-basement-flood). It triggered a response from me and a 2007 live […]
Tech Friday: WSJ review of sports streaming options
RichC | March 22, 2024
Although at this point I’m still sticking with cable for my Internet and television entertainment, the difficulty in watching certain sporting events is increasing. I’m not happy about Amazon locking up Thursday Night Football and did not like having to plan ahead for the NFL playoff game in January, but for the most part … […]
Music Monday Obituary: Eric Carmen (1949-2024)
RichC | March 18, 2024
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Music Monday: “Cowboy in the Jungle” by Jimmy Buffett (1978)
RichC | March 11, 2024
A couple of weeks ago, someone mention Jimmy Buffett and an old memory song … from back when I was really just starting to listen to music, buy albums (or often dubbed to cassette) … AND to Jimmy Buffett — it was 1978. One of the first albums that sold me on Jimmy Buffett was […]
Music Monday: “It’s going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day!”
RichC | March 4, 2024
A vacation duplicate (realized after the fact) of the 1972 song “I Can See Clearly Now” recorded by the late Johnny Nash (1940-2020). As I mentioned before, “it was enjoyed by my parents as well as my generation … and likely is still appreciated by today’s current generation?” Personally I never gave much thought to the […]
Archive: Updating the “goings-on” of Taylor and Megan
RichC | March 1, 2024
While I really wanted to take the time and archive the great time we had in February with Katelyn, Drew and our granddaughters in Florida, I’ll start with a less time intensive post. Last week Taylor and Megan made me jealous by going to a Mac McAnally concert in Cincinnati. It definitely looks like they […]
Music Monday: “Ride Captain Ride” by Blues Image
RichC | February 19, 2024
Today’s Music Monday here’s a SiriusXM Yacht Rock pick from the late 60’s rock band Blues Image and their hit “Ride Captain Ride” from 1970. The lyrics pretty much echo’s the band break up after setting sail and relaying that they are “never seen or heard from again. The Captain rides with his crew on a mystery […]
The passing of Toby Keith makes for a sad Music Monday
RichC | February 12, 2024
The passing of a great American patriot and country music singer/songwriter Toby Keith Covel last week from stomach cancer at age 62 was depressing. Surprisingly I have not posted about Toby Keith in the past on the blog or for Music Monday, but really should have considering his impressive career and devotion our military and […]
Music Monday: Kids, Families, Bands and Social Media Fun
RichC | February 5, 2024
Call today’s Music Monday post from X.com a lazy one … but I still like it (what a great dad)! Doesn't look like a lot of money here, not a lot of 'stuff'. There's one thing present that's far more valuable, can you see? pic.twitter.com/wOU6U9ak0F — Dane (@UltraDane) February 4, 2024
Music Monday: Gin Blossoms – “Follow You Down”
RichC | January 29, 2024
Often the bumper music on business television shows catches my ear and triggers a Music Monday idea. That was the case with the 1996 song “Follow You Down” by Gin Blossoms on The Big Money Show with hosts Jackie DeAngelis, Taylor Riggs and a personal favorite personality, Brian Brenberg. Here’s a YouTube Official Video of […]
Music Monday: Remembering David Soul – “Don’t Give Up On Us”
RichC | January 22, 2024
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Music Monday: “God Only Knows” – Beach Boys
RichC | January 15, 2024
After watching a couple wildcard playoff NFL blowout games over the weekend, a Music Monday song was triggered during a wrap up after the Green Bay Packers smoked the Dallas Cowboys to move on to San Francisco. The Packers were the underdogs by nearly all the analysts, but even as a young team, they did […]
Music Monday: “Lola” by The Kinks
RichC | January 8, 2024
Took a screenshot of my iPhone’s Sirius XM app last month while listening to an old Casey Kasem‘s American Top 40 countdown on the 70’s channel. There’s always something that catches my ear on the weekends when it comes to 1970s songs and thought it was a good choice for Music Monday. The song was […]
Music Monday: Dave Matthews and JB’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty”
RichC | January 1, 2024
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My favorite Babylon Bee Parody Video For 2023
RichC | December 31, 2023
After commenting back in 2022 on a favorite Babylon Bee parody video (added from YouTube below the break), this 2023 year year end New Year’s Eve favorite is another California oriented music video. Both parody clips highlight memorable songs as well as destructive policies from progressive Democrats governing a once idyllic state. It does seems […]
A Music and Movie Monday Merry Christmas to ALL!
RichC | December 25, 2023
Pre-posting a Christmas day blog update as I’m expecting to be busy with our family … and for the record … I am finally getting in the spirit and correct mood to celebrate Christ’s birthday. Since this is a Music Monday, it is appropriate to include the most popular Christmas song in America … BUT […]
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