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Song of the Day 1/4: Gerry and the Pacemakers, “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying”

By Alby January 4, 2021

Gerry Marsden, lead singer and main songwriter for Merseybeat pioneers Gerry and the Pacemakers, died yesterday of a heart infection at age 78. Before Beatlemania became a worldwide phenomenon, Marsden…

Song of the Day 1/2: Brittany Howard, “You’ll Never Walk Alone”

By Alby January 2, 2021

So I'm minding my own business the other night, reading online while my wife watched TV, when the speakers swelled with someone singing what sounded like a gospel song. I…

Song of the Day 1/1: Ferko String Band, “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers”

By Alby January 1, 2021

With luck, the cancellation of the Mummers Parade this year should forestall yet another blackface incident, but let's face it -- mummery's roots are intertwined with minstrelsy's, and not everybody…

Top Songs of the Day for 2020

By Alby December 31, 2020

I'm not a big fan of year-end lists, but everybody else seems to like them. Yossarian was right: If everybody else feels that way, then I'd certainly be a damned…

Song of the Day 12/31: Dougie MacLean, “Old Lang Syne”

By Alby December 31, 2020

I imagine lots of people will ignore the risks to hold New Year's Eve parties, though I doubt they'll be as big or raucous as usual. But no matter how…

Song of the Day 12/30: Tony Rice, “Church Street Blues”

By Alby December 30, 2020

The deadly year of 2020 claimed yet another notable musician on Christmas Day when influential bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice died, age 69, at his North Carolina home -- according to…

Song of the Day 12/29: The Bee Gees, “Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)”

By Alby December 29, 2020

However you felt about them at the time, the new documentary "The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" on HBO takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride tracking…

Song of the Day 12/28: Petula Clark, “Downtown”

By Alby December 28, 2020

Given that there's no sign yet that Nashville suicide bomber Anthony Quinn Warner left a suicide note, let alone a manifesto, people grasping for his motive have seized on the…

Song of the Day 12/27: Incubus, “Pardon Me”

By Alby December 27, 2020

This one's for all the criminals, creeps and Republicans -- but I repeat myself -- who want a last-minute pardon from Donnie Two Scoops. This is the song that exposed…

Song of the Day 12/26: The Pretenders, “2000 Miles”

By Alby December 26, 2020

No, I am not extending the Christmas music season with this tune because, contrary to popular belief and usage, it isn't a Christmas song, or wasn't intended as one. Pretenders…

Song of the Day 12/25: Philadelphia Orchestra, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”

By Alby December 25, 2020

"The Glorious Sound of Christmas," recorded in 1962 by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Normandy, remains the best-selling classical holiday album ever -- it sold 1 million copies before Christmas…

DL Open Thread Friday, December 25, 2020

By Alby December 25, 2020

A large explosion in downtown Nashville this morning was apparently was deliberately set, according to authorities. No major injuries reported. The Croda chemical plant near the Delaware Memorial Bridge was…

Song of the Day 12/24: Darlene Love, “Christmastime for the Jews”

By Alby December 24, 2020

Speaking of Jewish songwriters composing so many great Christmas songs, there's one Christmas song that's not only written by a Jew, Robert Smigel, the comic genius behind SNL's "TV Funhouse"…