Ryan and Casey
News broke yesterday that Ryan Seacrest has signed a deal to become a special correspondent for NBC’s Today show. Interestingly enough, yesterday also happened to be a milestone birthday for Seacrest’s predecessor in one of his...
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Game of Love (1965)
47 years ago the #1 song in America was “Game of Love” by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. The group hit #2 a year later with their tune “Groovy Kind of Love” but never...
Human Nature Mashup
Human Nature by Michael Jackson has been sampled numerous times, however only a few times has the sample yielded a hit song on the Billboard charts. In this mashup, the original Human Nature, Chris...
Do You Believe In Love
In the past couple of years, Tunesmate has noted the 1980s’ success of Huey Lewis and the News a few times, like here, here, and here. All of their chart success began with their...
The First Time Ever She Saw Number One
Exactly 40 years ago today, Roberta Flack hit number one for the first time when “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” topped Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart for the first week of a...
The Jeffersons vs. Different Strokes
One of my favorite theme songs of all-time is the 1970s classic The Jeffersons. Every time I hear this song, it makes want to dance. As a matter of fact, at handful of local...
It’s Still Got the Beat
Exactly 30 years ago today, The Go-Go’s biggest hit and one of the most memorable songs from the 1980s, “We Got The Beat,” peaked at number 2 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. In addition...
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
More than a decade before she was Samantha Jones on Sex in the City, Kim Cattrall came to life as a mannequin in the 1987 film Mannequin, in which she starred alongside Andrew McCarthy. The soundtrack to Mannequin...
Dan Fogelberg Memorial
While I was in Peoria, Illinois, this past week for a conference, I had a chance to stop at the Dan Fogelberg Memorial, which rests in Riverfront Park, right along the shore of the...
