DJ Rob

Yes, this list was meant to both entertain and enlighten! I’m glad it’s accomplished both! Thanks for reading and commenting. And feel free to share the article!

Thanks for this thoughtful accounting of Sam Cooke’s rightful place in music history and in rankings like these, which, admittedly, are subjective at best. I have often thought about this list in the six years since I first published it and where I’d rank certain artists today – or which ones I’d include now that I omitted the first time. I’ve…[Read more]

Hmmm… now I never would’ve thought of them.

Thanks, Daniel. Enjoy it!

Great insight, thanks. I guess Billboard giveth and Billboard taketh away. That change you mentioned, btw, is how “Come Together”/“Something” made it to No. 1 in 1969.

Thanks, Mr. Roach, for your very informative and interesting response. Your accounting of the facts is about as good as hearing directly from the Osmonds themselves, and I appreciate it – as I hope my readers will as well.

Thanks again!
DJRob

Correct. You’ve accessed an article written a year and a half ago.

Let’s just be glad he didn’t.

Thanks for the comment, Martin! I’m looking forward to hearing their whole album when it’s released.

Haha. You know she wasn’t gonna be, but she’ll be in a few months…20 year anniversary of her passing.

Indeed, Twana. What a fitting way to mark my 600th article! J. Cole showing that age ain’t nothing but a number.

Yeah, Michael apparently had this unusual fascination with little girls as victims in his music, from “Little Suzie” to the “Smooth Criminal” video.

Thanks, Elton. She deserves it indeed!

If a scene involving a guy driving down the street singing an ‘80s tune causes that kind of reaction, then it’s not the commercial you should be worried about.