The Pogues are one of my very favourite bands. They were formed in the early 1980s and grew out of the emerging Punk Rock scene in the UK. However, despite… Read More »Reader’s Choice…Song # 3/250: Dirty Old Town by The Pogues.
The songs listed in this post were found using the Top 40 charts of the following music organizations: CHUM-FM, CFNY-FM, KEXP-FM, Billboard Magazine, Spotify and BBC Radio 1. All six… Read More »Today’s Top 40: a Closer Look at the Stories Behind Today’s Top Songs…Song #38.
T. S. Eliot was one of the greatest poets of the last century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Upon the occasion of his death, he… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen: the Stories Behind the Most memorable Songs from Broadway, the West End and from Hollywood…Song # 4/250: memory from Cats
Fifty-five years ago, my mother and father decided to take me on a trip across Canada. We started out in Sydney, Nova Scotia, by train. My folks even put our… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip: Song # 4/250: Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane
Carmen by Georges Bizet is considered to be one of the most important and well-constructed operas ever produced. The piece of music from Carmen that we are looking at today… Read More »Keepin’ It Classy: Composition #4/50: The Overture to Carmen by Georges Bizet
Editor’s Note: Just for the information of those keeping score, I am tweaking the format of this series slightly. For starters, I am expanding the list of Top 40 charts… Read More »Today’s Top 40: A Closer Look at the Stories Behind the Hottest Songs of the Day…Song # 3/250: As It Was by Harry Styles
There is a strong case to be made that Muhammad Ali was the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. Furthermore, it is more than wishful nostalgia to declare that the… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen: the Stories Behind the Greatest Songs in Broadway and Hollywood History…Song # 3/250: Gonna Fly Now from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the film, Rocky
I lived in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia for the first eighteen years of my life. During that time, I did so within the warm social embrace of a good community.… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip: Song # 3/250: One Great City by The Weakerthans
The story of today’s musical composition begins, for me, in the early 1990s with the rental of a video cassette of the movie Moonstruck from my local Blockbuster Video store.… Read More »Keepin’ It Classy: Compositon 3/50: O Fortuna by Carl Orff
The inspiration for today’s post comes from my high school pal, Allister Matheson. During the Honourable Mention phase of our previous countdown series, Allister sent me over a dozen song… Read More »Reader’s Choice: Song(s) #2/250: Rock n’ Roll Train/Thunderstruck by AC/DC