May 8, 2026 —– Chart #349 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we return to one of my longtime favorite bands, The Moody Blues—but not the orchestral late-’60s Moody Blues we usually think about. Instead, we’re visiting their successful and very polished 1980s comeback period. Today’s […]
May 1, 2026 —– Chart #348 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we’re stepping into the remarkable middle period of The Beatles—right at the point where they were beginning to stretch beyond pop stardom and into something deeper, more thoughtful, and more adventurous. Today’s feature is
April 24, 2026 —– Chart #347 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week’s song is one of those rare cases where a tune gets recorded more than once… and then suddenly, years later, somebody records it again and the whole world stops what it’s doing and listens.
April 17, 2026 —– Chart #346 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we’re stepping into that unmistakable early-1970s Moody Blues sound—part rock band, part orchestra, part philosophy class that somehow still swings. Today’s feature is “The Story in Your Eyes” by The Moody Blues, one of
April 10, 2026 —– Chart #345 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we’re heading straight into early-1980s heartland rock—back when John Mellencamp was still billed as John Cougar, and radio was full of songs that sounded like they were written in parking lots after midnight. Today’s
December 6, 2024 —– Chart #275 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today I am featuring a song that has been a hit officially two times, and to me it’s really three times. “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” is a rock song written and first recorded by American
November 29, 2024 —– Chart #274 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Been doing quite a bit of country lately and today we have another one from a great artist. That’s the Way Love Goes is the thirty-eighth studio album by the American country music singer Merle
November 22, 2024 —– Chart #273 Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today we have a great song from 1970 and a few really good versions of it. “Me and Bobby McGee” is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares
November 15, 2024 —– Chart #272 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Pardon the pun but to me this song is a heavyweight. “The Weight” is a song by the Canadian-American group the Band that was released as a single in 1968 and on the group’s debut
November 8, 2024 —– Chart #271 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I know that not all of you are country music fans, but when I look back a great songs and performers of the past 60 years it’s hard to ignore some of the greats. Who