June 11, 2020 —– Chart #40 Hello Musical Friends, Its Thursday, almost another C19 weekend. Today’s artist is Steven Demetre Georgiou. Who? Oh, how about Yusuf Islam. Who? Oh, okay, let’s go with Cat Stevens. Cat Stevens given name is in fact Steven Demetre Georgiou, born July 21, 1948 in the Marylebone area of London, […]
June 4, 2020 —– Chart #39 Hello Musical Friends, Its Thursday and I just got off a Zoom call with our BYO musician membership. Boy was it nice to see some of your faces. You inspired me to knock out another chart of the day tonight. For this one I am going back to high
May 29, 2020 —– Chart #38 Hello Musical Friends, Well it’s Friday again and we are going to 1975. “Say You Love Me” is a song written by singer Christine McVie for Fleetwood Mac‘s 1975 self-titled album. The song peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and remains one of
May 22, 2020 —– Chart #37 Hello Musical Friends, Well it’s Friday and we are starting a holiday weekend. Most of us will be home for the holiday, but that’s not all bad. Let’s have some music fun while we are home and have time to play. Today I am going to 1975 and a
May 19, 2020 —– Chart #36 Hello Musical Friends, Yesterday my company reopened our office and I had a ‘normal Monday’ at work. This Chart of the Day was my way of dealing with the shelter in place order and working from home during the COVID-19 thing. Forgot to tell all of you that I
May 17, 2020 —– Chart #35 Hello Musical Friends, It’s Sunday and I am going with 1968 today. This one is a request from my good high school buddy Michael Bailey in Little Rock. “I Got a Line on You” is a rock song by American rock band Spirit, originally recorded during the sessions for
May 16, 2020 —– Chart #34 Hello Musical Friends, Hello Saturday. Time to play some music folks. Today’s selection will be familiar to all and an easy one to play. “Take It to the Limit” is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as
May 15, 2020 —– Chart #33 Hello Musical Friends, “Hello It’s Me” is a song written by American musician Todd Rundgren. It was the first original song he ever wrote, and was first recorded by his group Nazz as the B-side of “Open My Eyes” (1968). He recorded another more midtempo version of “Hello It’s
May 14, 2020 —– Chart #32 Hello Musical Friends, Welcome to Thursday. Today we are going back to 1970 and a hit song from a very well known movie. “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
May 13, 2020 —– Chart #31 Hello Musical Friends, Hope you are enjoying these daily emails. I intend to keep this up as long as we are in lockdown. Thereafter I will continue, but less frequently or until you tell me to stop! Also today I am sending a revised version of Gorgon Lightfoot’s “Sundown”