Cest La Vie
25 years ago Robbie Nevil‘s song “Cest La Vie” was crusing up the top 40 chart. One of my favorite songs from the 1980s, the single spent two weeks at #2 on the U.S....
Monthly Archive: November 2011
Let’s Get Physical
Get out your headband and leg warmers … and play an exercise machine like it’s an air guitar. Today marks exactly thirty years since Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” hit number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100...
Starbuck’s Snow Day Tune
Matt Pond’s “Snow Day” was featured last year in Starbuck’s holiday campaign and it’s back again by popular demand for 2011. The holidays are officially here, is this song worthy of being added to...
Stephen Bishop
San Diego born singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop turns 60 today. Bishop scored four top 40 hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, charting the highest with “On And On” in 1977. He also performed a...
Live on Letterman
The David Letterman Show continually features an outstanding line-up of today’s best musicians. Thus it would only be natural to devote an entire online radio station to the music that makes Dave smile. Listen...
Leif Garrett at 50
If you were a teenager in the United States in the late 1970s, you almost certainly remember teen heartthrob Leif Garrett.  Now from far a teenager, Garrett turns 50 today. Garrett gained notoreity as an actor...
R.I.P. Heavy D
As numerous media outlets are reporting, rapper Heavy D passed away today at the age of 44. With his hip hop group, the Boyz, Heavy D hit the national scene with the album Living...
Vimeo Music Store
Vimeo’s reputation as a high-quality digital competitor to YouTube continues to improve with a new feature. Recently the video giant launched a music store in which consumers can download Vimeo-based music from multiple generes....
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
In 1965 Sonny & Cher hit number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with “I Got You Babe,” but it was 40 years today that Cher hit the top for the first time in her solo...
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
I was going through some music earlier today and came across this song that I like to break out and play every now and then. By the Southern California-based band Primitive Radio Gods, “Sitting...
