The Day the ‘Music’ Died: R.I.P. Helen Reddy & Mac Davis
(September 30, 2020). The first new No. 1 song of 1972 was Don McLean’s “American Pie,” the classic tune that metaphorically told the story of the day in 1959 when…
‘The Notorious RBG’ drew inspiration from The Notorious B.I.G; here’s how…
(September 20, 2020). No, folks, it wasn’t all a dream. On Friday night, the world lost an American icon in the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died…
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman – the epitome of black greatness, right up to his last role…
(August 29, 2020). Actor Chadwick Boseman’s last role – as a trumpeter named Levee in legendary blues artist Ma Rainey’s Georgia Jazz Band – is yet to be seen. But…
50 Years Ago: “American Top 40 w/ Casey Kasem” débuted in the wake of the country’s last big reckoning…
(July 4, 2020). To me and the millions of other listeners who listened weekly to the world-famous pop music countdown show “American Top 40 with Casey Kasem” every weekend, it…
15 Years Later, We Still Miss Him: The 15 Greatest Luther Vandross Musical Moments!
(July 1, 2020). It was fifteen years ago today – on July 1, 2005 – that we lost one of the greatest voices of a generation in Luther Vandross. Fifteen…