RichC | 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 […]
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 […]
RichC | July 17, 2023
It is summer, and a Monday, so why wouldn’t I post another great song from my youth, and the greatest music decade, the 1970s (IMHO). This week it is Al Stewart and “The Year Of The Cat.” If you enjoy Al Stewart, check out a previous Music Monday post from the summer of 2020: Time […]
RichC | March 7, 2022
"Too Late to Turn Back Now” is a song that older listeners remember well, but often gets lost in the the 1970’s regular play music line-up. It was written by lead singer Eddie Cornelius and performed as a follow up to their debut hit “Treat Her Like a Lady” in 1971. The song rose to […]
RichC | January 10, 2022
Once again, it is surprising that with all the 1970s Music Monday songs and groups highlighted over the years on MDB, the English rock band Supertramp has only been included once for “Breakfast in America” .. hm? So here’s a link to co-founder Roger Hodgson, formally of Supertramp, and their well known 1982 song (with […]
RichC | December 13, 2021
Music in the late 1960s and early 1970s ran the gambut when it came to what sound and song might become a hit. The soul group Chairmen of the Board had a number 3 hit in 1970 titled “Give Me Just a Little More Time” and it featured the “quirky hiccup-ladden style” of lead singer […]
RichC | October 25, 2021
It is hard not to remember Grand Funk Railroad when you think about rock concerts from the 1970s (never attended though) and in particular their hit “We’re An American Band.” Here’s a LIVE version from 1974 posted to YouTube. Grand Funk Railroad, sometimes shortened as Grand Funk, is an American rock band who achieved their […]
RichC | October 4, 2021
When it comes to listening to the music, it is appropriate to be a bit more inclusive when it comes to songs that we listened to (and some danced to) in the 1970s. That included R & B, funk, disco and soul music from bell-bottomed dancing vocal groups like The Taveres Brothers or just Tavares. […]
RichC | June 14, 2021
Once again, Music Monday highlights another 1970s Canadian rock and roll band and a song from the greatest music decade (IMHO). HA! If you’re not turning up the volume or moving in some way when listening to this song, you’re probably not alive. Anyway the bumper music on a business news show triggered the Bachman-Turner-Overdrive […]
RichC | March 1, 2021
There are some 1970s songs that I’ve listened to and heard again and again over the years, but never really given much thought to what the band might have looked like performing on stage? Dr. Hook (& the Medicine Show) happens to be one of them … and I didn’t follow the group or know […]
RichC | December 28, 2020
The novelty song Coconut (1971) my Harry Nilsson from the early 1970s never fails to make my wife Brenda smile … as she sings along having memorized the lyrics when she was a young girl (shocked at how much “coconut” comes up? ). I’m actually grinning now visualizing her singing … “Doctor …” 😀 So […]
RichC | November 9, 2020
The music of the late Gerry Rafferty hasn’t appeared on Music Monday and I’m disappointed not to have yet included him in my heavily 70’s mix of musicians. Having to pick one song out for today’s listening is a challenge, but “Days Gone Down” (Night Owl) is a good one since it triggers a memory […]
RichC | September 28, 2020
It’s likely the politics and social unrest from a decade of racial tension, the Vietnam quagmire and the impeachment, then resignation, of disgraced President over his involvement and cover-up in Watergate was as upsetting to Americans in the early 1970s as events are today. As as young student the politics of the day should have […]
RichC | July 30, 2020
We are a product of our youth … and I’ll never forget The Mustache Gang. After seeing my son Taylor’s photo in his Cleveland Indians baseball cap (after shaving off his beard, but keeping his moustache), I had a flashback to the 1970s and remembered the Oakland A’s of my youth. They were the World […]
RichC | December 23, 2019
Pre-posting this Music Monday post a bit early since Brenda’s sister and her family will be visiting on their way to Cleveland from Atlanta. We always look forward to seeing Ann and Gary with their two girls Jessica and Sarah; it give us a chance to catch up on their life (Brenda grills the girls […]
RichC | July 1, 2019
It doesn’t seem that long ago, but I posted a favorite from The Carpenters back in January of 2017 … and for some reason the soothing music of Karen and Richard Carpenter came to mind this past week. Perhaps it was the few days we spent on Put-In-Bay contemplating the quieter lifestyle that “much of […]
RichC | May 20, 2019
Whenever I hear the Doobie Brothers, I can’t help but think about being back in high school and listening to my high school pep band at basketball games (while I was behind the basket shooting photos for the paper). Several songs were regularly played as I recall … China Grove, Listen to the Music and […]
RichC | January 7, 2019
After years of posting what I suspect are now considered “oldies” for Music Monday posts, I’ll at least start 2019 with a change. The Christmas season was a chance to listen to holiday music performed by a variety of different artists, and as I have in the past, enjoyed songs by almost all contemporary country […]
RichC | September 18, 2017
Shifting back into the "oldies" mode, here’s a Music Monday song that practically everyone knows from Gary Wright. The Dream Weaver is a 1975 hit recently being used in an insurance advertisement. I still think the decade of the 1970s produced the best music? In 1972, my friend George Harrison invited me to accompany him […]
RichC | March 20, 2017
Interesting photo??? Well musicians can have an unusual beginning and career turns. Before a musical career, John Hall (photo right) was an academically gifted 3-time National Science Foundation summer scholar and University of Notre Dame and Loyola College physics student at the age of 16 and after music, he ran for political office and end […]
RichC | February 20, 2017
There’s probably not a more iconic early 1970’s American song than Don McLean‘s American Pie … I’m shocked no to have posted about it before? If you were a kid growing up with music coming from a AM transistor radio when the popular song came on, you knew that the next 8 minutes would be […]
RichC | December 4, 2016
One of the television shows I enjoyed growing up watching was Kung Fu with David Carradine. The program regularly flashed back from Carradine’s character Kwain Chang Caine in the old west to China where he grew up learning the Chinese martial arts from the monks at the Shaolin Monastery. When I saw this photo from […]
RichC | August 8, 2016
As has become a habit, I’ll continue to highlight a song or two that appeals to me … this time it is another recording from the 70s: The Pretender the title song from the 1976 album with the same name. Likely it has been heard by all who follow popular music and talented songwriters/performers like […]
RichC | January 8, 2016
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RichC | April 24, 2014
As usual the guys from the Lexington Lab Band (including a talented high school friend Rob Pottorf) have produced another outstanding music video highlighting a band which started during the 1970s, Steely Dan. Their efforts might not be the creative talent some are looking for, but these guys really do know how to expertly perform […]