Well June of 2021 has come to an end, and so the The Soundtrack of a Lifetime will go back on hiatus for another year. When I started the series back in 2018, the goal was to share some of the songs that I have enjoyed throughout my lifetime. The first song I featured was School Days by Chuck Be
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06/30/2021
Another big star that needs no introduction is Frank Sinatra. Sinatra was likely the guy that people once thought of when the term superstar first came into play. “Sinatramania” in the 1940s preceded Beatlemania by twenty years.Sinatra is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, ha
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06/28/2021
I have always been a huge Nat King Cole fan. For my money no one makes singing look so effortless. I was only a child when Nat King Cole was a popular singer with his own television show. I remember my parents watching the show that I didn’t really appreciate at the time. Today's song is an old
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06/27/2021
Melissa is a song written by Greg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band. Gregg’s inspiration came from a trip to a grocery store where he encountered a woman with her granddaughter. The child was running all about the store with the older woman calling her name Melissa. Allman who was struggling to
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06/26/2021
I was lucky to see The Band perform live in 1973 at the old Chicago Stadium. At the time, I wasn’t a big fan of The Band, I was there to see Bob Dylan, but that night I became a fan.Over the course of two hours, Dylan and The Band performed alternating sets with Bob Dylan performing his acoustic
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06/25/2021
The Moody Blues have always been one of my favorite bands. I saw them in concert multiple times and each time I walked away smiling at their live performances.Because their music is a bit more complex than most Rock bands they often employed a full orchestra to back them up in concert. The album
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06/24/2021
I don’t think you can ever have too many Eric Clapton songs in your Soundtrack. Clapton who is known for his guitar work has always professed to be a blues guitarist, but his greatest success has always been in the Rock & Roll genre.In 1992 after performing live for a new series called MTV Unplug
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06/23/2021
I have to admit when I was younger, I was not much of a John Denver fan. I preferred the music of other artists. It was not until a few years ago when I saw a documentary film on John Denver that I came to appreciate all that he accomplished as a singer/songwriter and as an actorDenver produced s
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06/23/2021
Today we are going to try something a little different. We are going change over to the Country genre and at the same time give you two versions of the same song. Back in the 1970s a lot of Country stars were crossing over to the Rock charts. These days, it seems a lot of former Rockers are cros
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06/22/2021
Most of the songs I have posted up this season have been from the 1960s or 1970s, with good reason. There were a lot of good music produced in those days. Much of it still relevant today. Yet, this Soundtrack does not have to be just oldies. We always find new music and new performers that worm
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06/21/2021
