October 6, 2023 —– Chart #214 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today we a great songwriter and a funny little song that many of you may not have heard before. In Spite of Ourselves is the 13th studio album of the late John Prine, featuring duets […]
September 29, 2023 —– Chart #213 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. I keep trying to find songs from a different era for this weekly post, but I just keep coming back to the 60’s and 70’s. Well, today we are staying the course with a great
September 22, 2023 —– Chart #212 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today we are going to rock. This song can be played and enjoyed ‘unplugged’ on an acoustic guitar, but you will immediately recognize the tune as a guitar rocker. “Black Magic Woman” is a song
September 15, 2023 —– Chart #211 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. For this blog I like to choose songs that can be played on an acoustic guitar. Not all of my favorite tunes lend themselves to this format, but many do regardless of how they were
September 8, 2023 —– Chart #210 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. It has been a melancholy summer for me. First I lost my father in July, then on September 1 we lost my favorite Caribbean troubadour, Jimmy Buffett. Wow, that’s two BIG ones for me. I
September 1, 2023 —– Chart #209 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Hard as I try, I so often come back to the early 70’s for songs to include in this weekly blog. So here I go again with another songs that in my mind is completely
August 25, 2023 —– Chart #208 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Going for a deeper cut this week from one of my favorite artists. I have admitted to all of you SONGCHART fans before that I am an unapologetic parrot head, a diehard Jimmy Buffett fan.
August 18, 2023 —– Chart #207 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today I am going back to one of my most played albums of all time. This artist is a brilliant song writer and performer. “Beautiful” is a song written by Carole King that was first
August 11, 2023 Chart #206 Hello Music Friends, You may have noticed that I did not send my usual chart of the week email for the past two Fridays. I have not missed a Friday in over three years. Well, life got in the way lately as I cared for my aging father. In late
July 21, 2023 —– Chart #205 Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Friends, we are going way back today deep into the 60’s. “Daydream” is a song by the American folk rock band the Lovin’ Spoonful. Written by John Sebastian, it was issued as a single in February 1966 and