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177: Influential Women, Pt.2–Rosanna Arquette
In case you haven't heard, we're on a little bit of a journey, meeting various women who have had an influence on multiple pop songs. In today's episode we'll be visiting Rosanna Arquette. - The inter
176: Influential Women, Pt1–Renee Fladen-Kamm
For the next several episodes, we're going to take a look at the women who inspired some of the Rock Era's most iconic songs. - There will be six episodes in this series; five of them will concentrate
175: In the Still of the Night
After this many episodes, it gives me a moment of "Huh, isn't that interesting" when I start writing the post for an episode and discover that I haven't covered a song from that particular year before
174: Don’t Fear the Reaper
This is an episode I wrote in the Southern Studio, so I may have been in a better mood than usual to write it than I ordinarily am, given the subject matter. - When Blue yster Cult first got togeth
173: Wichita Lineman
By 1968, Glen Campbell had moved from session musician to a star in his own right. His single "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb, was a huge hit for him. So when Campbell decided he
172: A World War Two Christmas
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! - Today we're looking at three Christmas songs that are born from the anxieties of World War Two. Two of the songs aren't direct references to the war itself, b
171: Save the Last Dance For Me
...before we were so rudely interrupted... - This is a song that I'm long-overdue in covering, if only because of the backstory it has. It's simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking. It's a lov
170: I Fought the Law
How many times now have I gone into the backstory with a song and learned that the person who wrote it says something akin to, "Yeah, I knocked that one off in about fifteen minutes." - Oftentimes the
169: Tiny Dancer
I don't often play favorites on this show; in fact there have been a couple of songs I genuinely disliked, but I covered them anyway because the story behind them was kind of interesting. And I think
168: Windy
The Association was a band that just kind of floundered for awhile. First in was in their early years when they were known as simply The Men, then, in 1966 after their first album did well, the second