Song of the Day 5/19: Dolly Parton, “9 to 5”
Dabney Coleman, who died last week at 92, was best known for playing arrogant, venal characters in movies and television, especially during the '80s, when he starred in the sitcoms…
Song of the Day 5/17: Childish Gambino, “Redbone”
Actor Donald Glover has been busy the last several years, notably by playing Lando Calrissian in a Star Wars prequel and starring in an Amazon Prime series, a remake of…
Song of the Day 5/16: Louis Prima, “I Wanna Be Like You”
The sad spectacle of Trump's gaggle of suckups convening outside his trial in New York – in matching outfits, no less – made me think of this tune from Disney's…
Song of the Day 5/15: David Sanborn, “Hideaway”
Alto saxophonist David Sanborn's music is usually categorized as smooth jazz, much to his chagrin. Sanborn, who died Sunday at age 78, released 25 albums leading his own band, incorporating…
Song of the Day 5/13: Baby Lasagna, “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”
Eurovision, the international song contest, rarely makes the news in America, but it's a big deal in Europe, a sort of a musical Olympics that pits one musical act from…
Song of the Day 5/12: Pixies, “Where Is My Mind?”
This is a question two presidential candidates who aren't Joe Biden should be asking themselves. They could use this tune as a soundtrack. Black Francis said the song was inspired…
Song of the Day 5/10: Redd Kross, “Candy Coloured Catastrophe”
El Somnambulo left this one off his list of his favorite new tunes of April, maybe because he didn't get a chance to hear it – it dropped April 29.…
Song of the Day 5/9: Harold Arlen, “Stormy Weather”
Contentious cross-examination of porn star Stormy Daniels made this an inevitable tabloid headline. I started humming this Harold Arlen standard, now 91 years old, as soon as I read it.…
Song of the Day 7/8: Graham Parker and the Rumour, “Mercury Poisoning”
H/t El Somnambulo It must be something in the water, nanoplastics or something, because suddenly politicians are saying shit that nobody looking for votes should ever say. First it was…
Song of the Day 5/7: “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Fat”
You can tell Donnie Two Scoops is on Ozempic (or Wegovy, they're the same thing, just different doses) because he's taken to mocking people for being fat. At a fundraiser…
Song of the Day 5/6: Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer”
Kristi Noem's dog murder-career suicide exposed her inhumanity, but as this writer pointed out, to really understand what a sicko she is, consider the poor billy goat who caught her…
Song of the Day 5/4: Bill Murray (as Nick Winters), “Star Wars”
Nowadays, after nine feature-length films and spinoff series galore, it's hard to remember what a big deal the original Star Wars was when it came out in 1977. That was…
Song of the Day 5/3: David Bromberg, “Dehlia”
David Bromberg, who's called Wilmington home for the past 22 years, announced that he's moving to New York City – for a quieter life. Bromberg relocated from Chicago to Wilmington…