The Hits Just Keep On Comin\'
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The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ Regular readers of this blog will know that I am all about the month of October. This month, we’re revisiting some random October days. For the whole “One Day in… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ October 3, 1975, is a Friday. President Gerald Ford vetoes a bill intended to expand food programs for needy children, claiming it would give aid to families above the poverty… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ October 2, 1970, is a Friday. A plane carrying 36 members of the Wichita State University football team and a crew of four, en route to a game in Utah,… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ The decade you grow up in will always shine brighter in memory than the paler eras that follow, but as a 70s guy I try to be fair to the… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ It’s One Hit Wonder Day today. I don’t know whose idea it was—not mine—but it’s a holiday we like around here. If you travel around the music blogs today, you… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ When you are a small-town kid, you do not learn how small your town really is until you leave it. Growing up in it, you’re an organism in its ecosystem,… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ The latest edition of “One Day in Your Life” appeared at Popdose last Wednesday. A commenter to that post wished I’d write one every day. I wish I could, too—it’s… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ Sometime around mid-September 1983, the morning guy at KDTH in Dubuque wanted to get off the air to devote all his time to being program director, and I was asked… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ We were through, she and I. To admit it out loud, however, during those golden late summer days of 1977 , would have been to set the idea loose in… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ I have lots of actual remunerative labor in my sights for the next few days and we’re headed out of town later in the week, so I won’t have much… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ Last week was the 40th anniversary of the famously violent Democratic National Convention held in Chicago . Forty years ago this week, as the city picked up the pieces, here’s… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ Here’s Part II of my airshift diary from Labor Day, when I did a five-hour shift on The Lake followed by three more at Magic 98. (Part I is here… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ In the summer of 1973, I presume I played baseball, went to summer band rehearsals, spent a week with my cousin and another with my grandparents, and drove a tractor… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ I first heard of “Lake Shore Drive” by Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah 25 years ago, when I was working in Macomb, Illinois. I met a guy who hosted an oldies… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ I’m especially fond of the late summer music surveys from 1970. As I have repeated repeatedly over the years , I first discovered music and radio on the school bus… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ People occasionally send me mp3s, or links to mp3s, hoping I’ll write about them on this blog. Over the weekend, a reader in the UK sent me something more interesting… Read full post »
The Hits Just Keep On Comin\' ❤ Grab any record chart from any August and up at the top, you’re guaranteed to find several dog-day anthems from whatever year you’ve chosen. Down toward the bottom, however, you’ll… Read full post »
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