All posts in this series tell the stories behind songs submitted by readers of this blog or else, a song that tickles my own fancy. As always, I welcome your suggestions for future posts. Any song from any era in any genre by any artist is welcome. I will do my best to honour the songs that matter most to you.
In today’s post we are going to be talking about a song that was one of the biggest hits of the 1980s. “Africa” by Toto went all the way to… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #58/250: Africa by Toto
During the 1960s, Detroit, Michigan received a lot of attention from the music world after a man named Berry Gordy started a record label to promote black musicians called Tamla… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #57/250: If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes and covered by Simply Red
For much of the 1980s and 90s, Huey Lewis was at the centre of the Pop/Rock scene in North America and around the world. With his band called The News,… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes….Song #56/250: The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News
So…..last night my wife went out for dinner with some friends. My two teenage daughters and I stayed home and ate dinner together around the family table. During the course… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #55/250: Stick Season by Noah Kahan
Today’s song comes to us from my eldest daughter, Leah. Leah is in her final year of high school. She has already been accepted for university in the fall. Because… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #54/250: This is What it Feels Like by Armin van Buuren ft. Trevor Guthrie
A short time ago I wrote a post about the early 1970s hit “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas. In that post (which you can read here) I talked about… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #53/250: I’m the Man by Joe Jackson
The journey from being a brand new baby to being a high school graduate, let’s say, is a truly remarkable one. In the beginning, the newborn babe can’t walk or… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #52/250: Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
The story behind today’s song is one of taxes, music history that didn’t involve Deep Purple and music history that did. How “Smoke on the Water” came to be recorded… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #51/250: Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
As many of you know, I was an elementary school teacher long before I ever became a blogger. For thirty years I spent a majority of my days in the… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #50/250: Not An Addict by K’s Choice
In 1962, two years before I was even born, a sixteen year old dark haired beauty named Cherilyn Sarkisian walked into an L.A. coffee shop on the arm of her… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #49/250: I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher