Reading between the Grooves

Today’s Bubbling Under Hit is testimony that Mark Farner was a very talented vocalist in addition to his guitar work. Grand Funk Railroad n...

Released in February 1982 as the third single from Foreigner’s album “4,” “Juke Box Hero” had been playing on album radio since July 1981. I...

For Thursday’s Repeats and Threepeats, we treat you to a song that was released thrice in the United States. The Moody Blues “Nights in Whi...

For the first post of 2013, I am fulfilling a request by my college buddy Greg Rector. He specifically asked for this song for our Wooden M...

The second single to be released in America on Island Records was Traffic’s “Rock & Roll Stew . . . Part 1.” The album “The Low Spark o...

In 1978, Chris Blackwell of Island Records signed Charlie Dore, a multi-genre talented artist from Great Britain, to his label. “Where To N...

It wasn’t the first recording of the song, but The Buggles’ release of “Video Killed the Radio Star” did better than Bruce Woolley and the C...