Song of the Day

Song of the Day (100): Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin

Let’s go back to the night of August 8, 970 when Janis Joplin is due to sing at the Capital Theater in Port Chester New York. She’s getting ready for the show at a bar next door with some friends: Geraldine Page Rip Horn and Bobby Neuwirth. They’re having a grand old time and Joplin […]

Song of the Day (99): Ramblin Boy – Tom Paxton

Born in Chicago, Tom Paxton grew up in Oklahoma listening to another Okie boy, Woody Guthrie. The Army took Paxton out of the Sooner State and eventually dropped him into the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. This is a sweet song of friendship and what it means to be loyal. It makes […]

Song of the Day (98): Bird on a Wire – Leonard Cohen

Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Heard those lines first as a teenager and they’ve haunted me ever since. So flawed, trying to find a way that made sense, not quite fitting in, but not alone, an ugly, off-key voice, but […]

Song of the Day (97): Don’t Run Wild – The Del Fuegos

The Del Fuegos grew out of the 1980’s Boston music scene. Formed by the Zanes Brothers (Dan and Warren) and two friends (Tom Lloyd and Woody Giessmann). What you hear is what you get: straight forward rock and roll, part heart, part brain, part groin with a healthy dose of passion. F. Scott Fitzgerald was […]

Song of the Day (96): Rock ‘n Roll – Velvet Underground

Lou Reed wrote this song about the transformation that the radio and rock’n roll had in his life: “‘Rock and Roll’ is about me. If I hadn’t heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating – to think that […]

Song of the Day (95): Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell

Here’s the story about this song as told by Jimmy Webb, the master songwriter who wrote it. The pair had combined on a hit with the song, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Looking for repeat success, Campbell asked his writing friend to give hi another song with a specific location. Jimmy Webb is […]

Song of the Day (94): Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) – Miranda Lambert

Flip the tables and if a guy can guy drunk and wild why can’t a woman. Miranda Labert knows the feeling. Written by Ellie King, Lambert finds the fun and bronco buck in this song. #Songoftheday #spreadinghappiness #elieking #mirandalambert YouTube: https://youtu.be/JgbvFad-390?si=ovvpA8US28ji1cir Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Lpehb4R7VcfpxRpol1s91?si=8e177ea0fbcf4a7e

Song of the Day (93): Indiana Wants Me – R. Dean Taylor

John and I are off to Indiana for a few days, so it’s only natural that I pull up a one hit wonder, ear worm forms my earliest days of listening to music: “Indiana Wants Me.” Written, produced and performed by R/ Dean Taylor, a one-time Motown producer, it unspools a cinematic tale of a […]

Song of the Day (92): Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

Born in Arkansas, Al Green grew up with one foot in the church singing in the choir and one foot in the nightclub singing soul music. From age nine, he sang in a gospel group with his brothers (The Green Brothers) until, as the story goes, his father caught him listening to a Jackie Wilson […]