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April  4, 2025      —–     Chart #292 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs make you want to get up and dance. Some make you want to sit and think. And then there’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, a song that makes you want to do absolutely nothing, preferably while in a hammock with a cold beverage in hand. Written by Bob Dylan in 1967 during his post-motorcycle… Read more: YOU AINT GOIN’ NOWHERE

March 28, 2025      —–     Chart #291 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I don’t know about you, but there are certain songs that just ooze cool. They make you want to put the top down, throw on some shades, and cruise down a sun-drenched highway with nothing but the wind in your hair and a sense of reckless abandon in your heart. One of those songs is… Read more: ROUTE 66

March 21, 2025      —–     Chart #290 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs just hit right, like a cold beer on a hot day or a perfectly timed punchline in a Dan Jenkins novel. A Love Song by Loggins & Messina is one of those songs. It’s smooth, it’s heartfelt, and it doesn’t try too hard—just the kind of tune you can imagine Jimmy Buffett humming… Read more: A LOVE SONG

March 14, 2025      —–     Chart #289 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. If you’ve ever been down on your luck but decided to lean into it and ham it up for dramatic effect, then congratulations—you already understand “Act Naturally.” This is a song about a guy who loses everything and figures, well, might as well cash in on the heartbreak and become a big-time movie star—because, hey,… Read more: ACT NATURALLY

March 7, 2025      —–     Chart #288 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Every so often, a song comes along that doesn’t just describe how you feel—it calls you out on it. Today’s song is one of those. “The Shape I’m In” by The Band is about one step above a doctor’s diagnosis if your lifestyle has included too much bad luck, bad habits, and bad whiskey. It’s… Read more: THE SHAPE I’M IN

February 28, 2025      —–     Chart #287 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs don’t just tell a story—they drop you right into the middle of one, like you’re sitting at the counter in some no-name Texas diner, sipping burnt coffee, listening to some old guy tell you about the best damn adventure you’ll never have. That’s exactly what Guy Clark did with “Desperados Waiting for a… Read more: DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN

February 21, 2025      —–     Chart #286 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs just have that timeless quality—the kind that sticks with you through the years, no matter how many times you hear them. Today’s song is one of those classics, a tune that set the standard for country heartbreak ballads and went on to influence generations of musicians. We’re talking about “Oh, Lonesome Me”, written… Read more: OH, LONESOME ME

February 14, 2025      —–     Chart #285 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Motown this week! “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number… Read more: I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

February 7, 2025      —–     Chart #284 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I love bands with great vocal harmonies. Guess that’s why I am so smitten with The Beatles, Crosby Still Nash & Young and the like. Well today we are looking at another such band with beautiful harmonies and a little less overall success that the aforementioned. Firefall is an American soft rock band that formed… Read more: CINDERELLA

January 31, 2025      —–     Chart #283 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Friends, we are in the 1970’s again this week with a tune from the country charts. “The Gambler” is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by several artists, most famously by American country singer Kenny Rogers. Schlitz wrote the song in August 1976 when he was 23 years old. Schlitz shopped the song… Read more: THE GAMBLER

January 24, 2025      —–     Chart #282 Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Let’s go to the dark side of the moon today, okay? “Breathe” (sometimes called “Breathe (In the Air)“) is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd. It appears on their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour and Richard Wright for the music and… Read more: BREATHE

January 17, 2025      —–     Chart #281 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I am fond of all types of music and a wide variety of artists. Right at the top of my list of great songwriting bands would be The Beatles. I don’t think any other group can compare with the sheer volume of creative tunes these guys cranked out. Today we feature one.   “You’re Going to… Read more: YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE THAT GIRL

January 10, 2025      —–     Chart #280 Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Welcome to the new year and more SongChart features. Today we are going with “Thank You“, a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their second studio album Led Zeppelin II (1969). It was written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and produced by Page. The song features a Hammond organ, played by John Paul Jones,… Read more: THANK YOU

January 3, 2025      —–     Chart #279 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. We start the year off with a rocker from 1971. “I Just Want to Celebrate” is a song recorded by American rock band Rare Earth. It was the lead single on their 1971 album One World and was the band’s fifth single overall. The song was among the most popular hits of the 1970s. Joe… Read more: I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE

December 27, 2024      —–     Chart #278 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. To end 2024 we have a great tune from the great duo Simon & Garfunkel. “Homeward Bound” is a song by the American music group Simon & Garfunkel, released as a single on January 19, 1966, by Columbia Records. It was written by Paul Simon and produced by Bob Johnston. Simon wrote the song during… Read more: HOMEWARD BOUND