Anne Murray – A Love Song – April 26, 1974
Oldies Songs In 1974, Anne Murray Turned “A Love Song” Into a Gentle Midnight Promise Beneath Television Lights When Anne Murray appeared on The Midnight Special on April 26, 1974 to perform…
Texas Tornados – “Wasted Days & Wasted Nights”
When Texas Tornados Played “Wasted Days & Wasted Nights” in Austin, It Sounded Like the Entire History of Texas Music Was Singing Together Onstage in Austin, surrounded by applause and…
EmmyLou Harris covers Steve Goodman’s Yellow Coat
When Emmylou Harris Sang “Yellow Coat” for Steve Goodman, the Performance Felt Like a Tender Goodbye Between Old Friends During Larger Than Life: A Celebration of Steve Goodman, Emmylou Harris…
Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
Oldies Songs A Joyful Celebration of Love, Fate, and Everyday Life Wrapped Inside One of Rock ’n’ Roll’s Most Enduring Stories When Chuck Berry released “You Never Can Tell” in 1964, few…
Karen Dalton – Something On Your Mind
A Song That Feels Like a Quiet Confession Between Midnight and Dawn There are songs that entertain, songs that impress, and then there are songs like “Something On Your Mind”…
Michael Hurley – Be Kind to Me
A Gentle Plea for Compassion Hidden Inside a Folk Whisper Few songs in the long and winding history of American folk music feel as quietly human as “Be Kind to…
Gerry Shephard ‘You are the one’
A Quiet Love Song That Slipped Past the Charts but Stayed in the Heart There are songs that dominate radio waves for a season, and then there are songs that…
Sundown – written by Gordon Lightfoot – performed by The Unsung Heroes
A song about jealousy, longing, and the quiet fear of losing someone you love, “Sundown” remains one of the most haunting portraits of emotional vulnerability ever written in 1970s folk-rock.…
Bobby Sherman & The Partridge Family – Stephanie
A forgotten television love song that never reached the charts, yet somehow survived in memory far longer than many official hits of the early 1970s. There are songs that become…
Alan Jackson – Here in the Real World
Oldies Songs “Here in the Real World” Was the Song That Introduced Alan Jackson as the Honest Voice Country Music Had Been Missing Before the cowboy hats became iconic, before the sold-out…