"Light My Fire" is a song by the American rock band The Doors. It was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their debut album.It was later released as a single in April, where it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the Cash Box Top 100,
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06/25/2022
How about a little blues to brighten your day? Today’s song is a classic blues song and video filmed for the movie The Blues Brothers. The Blues Brothers movie employed some great music and big-name musicians like Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and John Lee Hooker.The song Boom, Boom recorded by J
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06/24/2022
I listen to a lot of Billy Joel. You might say his songs are music to my ears. But more than anything I like the way he weaves the story of his middle-class upbringing into his songs. I can identify with his music.Billy Joel of all the artists here on the Soundtrack probably has created the most
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06/23/2022
Even though my lifetime Soundtrack features a lot of songs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, every so often I find a current artist and a song that I think deserves to be included in my list of favorites. One of those artists is Bruno Mars. Mars who grew up in Honolulu, HI took his act to LA. to find f
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06/22/2022
Growing up in the 1960s (I know a long time ago), everyone wanted to be in a rock band. Garage bands permeated the neighborhoods as we all tried to be the next Elvis. Every kid I knew aspired to become a rock star by playing guitar or drums. If you were an (aspiring) drummer there was a barometer
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06/21/2022
It isn’t often I get requests here on the Soundtrack. Heck I barely get any readers. But recently I got a request from fellow ActiveRainer Kathy Streib for a song from former teenage heartthrob Bobby Rydell. Rydell was one of the hottest recording artists in the early 1960s. His talent extended
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06/20/2022
Here’s another old song that is easily recognizable by its haunting melody. As soon as the song starts to play you recognize it.The song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut single by the English rock band Procol Harum, and it harkens all the way back to May 1967.In 1967 psychedelic music and ps
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06/19/2022
Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) are a folk-rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.The trio began playing together in 1968 when each member left their prior band. Stills had exited Buffalo Springfield, Nash left
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06/18/2022
Growing up I always liked those songs where the lyrics told a story. The story for today’s song is about a cowboy from the west Texas town of El Paso, who falls in love with a cantina dancer. Unfortunately, his love for the beautiful maiden will be his demise.This number one hit goes all the way
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06/17/2022
In this year’s rendition of the Soundtrack we are spending a lot of time in the 1960s. One reason is because the 1960s were a time of social change. Rock & Roll had shed its image as a trend in music and was now solidly ingrained as the music for generations to come.Protest songs were all over th
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06/16/2022
