Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 11/12: Ray Charles, “Hit the Road Jack”
Somebody should blast this at the White House 24/7 until he concedes. Ray Charles took this blunt kiss-off to No. 1 in 1961. Margie Hendrix of the Raelettes plays his foil, something she could do easily because they were in a stormy relationship at the time, but the song isn’t about them. It was written […]
Songs Of The Day For November 11, 2020: A ‘Very Special’ Medical Procedures Edition
Both Alby and Yours Truly are undergoing medical procedures this week. HIPPA privacy prohibitions preclude me from providing the inside poop for our padrones. Meaning, we will limit ourselves to musical clues. Alby’s malady melody: In my case, this one’s for posterior’s posterity’s sake:
Song of the Day 11/10: Weird Al Yankovic, “I Lost on Jeopardy”
I thought this would be a good way to acknowledge the passing of Alex Trebek, but I had forgotten that this parody of Greg Kihn’s “Jeopardy” actually predates Trebek’s association with the game show. The original show aired on NBC on weekday afternoons from 1965 to 1975 and was briefly resurrected a couple of times […]
Song of the Day 11/9: The Kinks, “Do It Again”
h/t RE Vanella Republicans who still can’t accept that their turd emperor got flushed have floated the idea that we should hold another election. Sure, fellas, just wait four years. Meanwhile, Democrats are gearing up to do it again in Georgia, because winning the two run-off elections for Senate seats would give them control of […]
Song of the Day 11/8: The Four Seasons, “Walk Like a Man”
I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard the Trump campaign tried to get these guys to perform at that infamous Northeast Philly press conference. They didn’t show because they went to the Four Seasons hotel by mistake. Also, too, the song describes something else Trump can’t do. Like most of the group’s string […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Bob Camp (as Stinky Wizzleteats), “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy”
If ecstatic Democrats are going to gather in crowds to cheer Joe Biden — amid a pandemic, please remember — I wish they would all sing and dance to appropriately gleeful but simpleminded music. This tune, for example. The song first appeared in the sixth episode of the first season of “Ren and Stimpy,” the […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Chumbawumba, “Drip, Drip, Drip”
Those mail-in ballots just keep trickling in. It must feel like water torture to Twitler. This song was on the same album that made Chumbawumba a one-hit wonder, “Tubthumping,” released in 1997. That eponymous single hit No. 6 in the Hot 100, a major feat by then for any rock track, and drove the LP’s […]
Song of the Day 11/5: Stephen Bishop, “On and On”
How long will the vote counting last? It just goes on and on… Try to relax with a little yacht rock. Back in 1976, when the mellow music of Southern California was known, oxymoronically, as soft rock, Stephen Bishop released his debut album, “Careless,” and what would remain his biggest hit. “On and On” climbed […]
Song of the Day 11/4: Alice Cooper, “Elected”
This one is for all the people who were elected yesterday, a list that does not yet include a president. Though the song appeared Alice Cooper’s 1973’s “Billion Dollar Babies” LP, it was released as a single the autumn before, in time for the 1972 presidential election. It didn’t make much of a dent in […]
Song of the Day 11/3: The Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today”
How much more cowbell could a song have? None. None more cowbell. The Chambers Brothers were unlikely pioneers of what became known as psychedelic soul, first recording this trippy classic in 1966. Just a year earlier they had performed at the Newport Folk Festival, at the invitation of Pete Seeger himself — as a gospel […]
Song of the Day 11/2: Rare Earth, “Get Ready”
Rare Earth earned its footnote in rock history as Motown’s first successful white act, but naturally the band, founded in Detroit in 1961 as the Sunliners, scored its first and biggest hit with a song of impeccable soul pedigree. Written by Smokey Robinson, “Get Ready” was recorded by the Temptations in 1966, when it reached […]
Song of the Day 11/1: Lindsey Buckingham, “Countdown”
The first time he left Rock’s Longest Running Soap Opera, in 1987, it took Lindsey Buckingham five years to put together a solo album. “Out of the Cradle” was actually his third solo album, but he had still been in Fleetwood Mac when he did the first two, and what was supposed to be his […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes For October 2020
My kind of month–music that starts out interesting, and ends up fascinating. Plus songs for this dire season. A national treasure. A great song: Fuckin’ Portland Cops:
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