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December 20, 2024      —–     Chart #277 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Folks, it’s Christmas time so I just had to get into the spirit of the season and give you a Christmas song today. “White Christmas” is a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. Written by Irving Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song… Read more: WHITE CHRISTMAS

December 13, 2024      —–     Chart #276 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Time for another great song story and this week we have a familiar tune but you may not know the original. “The Tide Is High” is a 1967 rocksteady song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained… Read more: THE TIDE IS HIGH

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 musician Warren Zevon in 1976. In my eyes, that is hit #1. With gender references reversed, it was made a… Read more: POOR POOR PITIFUL ME

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 Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1983. Haggard had loved Lefty Frizzell’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” since he… Read more: THAT’S THE WAY LOVE GOES

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 the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. A posthumously released version by Janis… Read more: ME & BOBBY MCGEE

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 album Music from Big Pink. It was their first release under this name, after their previous releases as Canadian Squires… Read more: THE WEIGHT

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 knew back in 1973 when this song was released what a lifetime musical powerhouse Dolly Parton would be! “Jolene” is… Read more: JOLENE

November 1, 2024      —–     Chart #270 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today’s song goes all the way back to my birth year, 1958. “All I Have to Do Is Dream” is a song made famous by the Everly Brothers, written by Boudleaux Bryant of the husband-and-wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and published in 1958. The song is ranked No. 141 on the Rolling Stone… Read more: ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM

October 25, 2024      —–     Chart #269 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week.       Well friends, it’s almost Halloween. I have resisted featuring this song for several Octobers in a row, but now we are going with it. “Monster Mash” is a 1962 novelty song by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton’s Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a… Read more: MONSTER MASH

October 18, 2024      —–     Chart #268    Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. For those of you who think I am stuck in the 1970’s, you are mostly right, but not totally. Last week we had a humorous tune from 1993 and today we are fast forwarding to 2005. “As Good as I Once Was” is a song recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith. It was… Read more: AS GOOD AS I ONCE WAS

October 11, 2024      —–     Chart #267 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Gonna break for the norm this week and give you a fun country song from 1993. “Blame It on Your Heart” is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I… Read more: BLAME IT ON YOUR HEART

October 4, 2024      —–     Chart #266 Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I featured this band two weeks ago and they’re back again this week. “Never Been to Spain” is a song written by Hoyt Axton, originally released on his 1971 LP Joy to the World and later that year performed by Three Dog Night, with Cory Wells on lead vocal. It was featured on their 1971 album Harmony. The… Read more: NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN

September 27, 2024      —–     Chart #265 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. We are in 1971 this week with another great hit from none other than the incredible Carole King. “Where You Lead” is a song written in 1970 by Carole King with lyricist Toni Stern, introduced on King’s iconic 1971 album Tapestry. A Top 40 hit for Barbra Streisand in both a studio and a live… Read more: WHERE YOU LEAD

September 20, 2024      —–     Chart #264 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Going way back in years for me today.  “Out in the Country” is a song written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols and performed by Three Dog Night. It was produced by Richard Podolor, and was featured on their 1970 album, It Ain’t Easy. In the US, “Out in the Country” peaked at number 11… Read more: OUT IN THE COUNTRY

September 13, 2024      —–     Chart #263 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. We are in 1970 today with a great sing-along tune. “Lola” is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies for their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details a romantic encounter in a Soho bar between a young man and the eponymous… Read more: LOLA