One-hit wonders happen in every genre, but they’re particularly prevalent in pop music. That’s not a new thing, either. Even back in the 1970s, pop one-hit wonders were in abundance. Let’s take a look ...
No one can accuse the Top-40 radio stations of the mid-1970s of not being eclectic. Take, for example, the Billboard Hot 100 from March 15, 1975. The Doobie Brothers’ uncharacteristic foray into ...
He was the city’s brightest pop star, but also its most disarming contradiction — elegant, emotional, and impossible to ...
“The Long and Winding Road” is not on the following list. As a pop-rock song from the 1970s (released in 1970, around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list.
This was 1970, the dawn of the Seventies, and with it the world welcomed Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon,” Disney’s “The Aristocats” and “Broom-Hilda,” a comic strip that blew the lid off the ...
With the third song on the third side of his landmark third solo album, 1972’s Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren planted a tentpole for power pop. It’s a fun ride, for sure, and the way it clatters ...
Glen Campbell's 1982-83 syndicated show airs on Get TV. What do Glen Campbell, Andy Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Flip Wilson, Dolly Parton, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash, Freddie Fender, Bette Midler, Carl ...