Classic Rock Battles - The Limey & the Yank

We have fun with good songs that have bad ideas. Take these completely unseriously and have a laugh when Smokey Robinson and the Miracles suggest relationships aren't for you, or Stephen Stills goes the opposite direction and tells you to have all kinds of intimate relations with whoever's on hand.

Did the dark side of that last episode scare you? It's okay, we bring this journey in for a safe, secure landing as we move through the stuff of dreams. Mister Sandman may not have liked Roy Orbison calling him a candy-colored clown, and Enter Sandman may have been a tale of candy-colored revenge, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Mamas and the Papas, and Pink Floyd letting Roger Waters run a...

We enjoy the lighter side of dreams, with The Monkees and Weird Al, and Bobby Darin, the man gifted with two first names. This is a chance to enjoy your favorite dream songs or go out to our YouTube playlist from this episode to be motivated and inspired.

Sometimes a Daydream Believer can think that Life is But a Dream, and Dream On. We won't make that mistake - it's hard to stay awake when Roy Orbison is singing a Dream Song, but it's easy to be excited about sharing all these great tunes with you and telling you the history behind them.

Songs about Dreams and Dreaming, from Elvis telling you where to go (in a nice way!) to Oasis reminding you not to stop until you get there. These are inspirational, sometimes surreal, and definitely dreamy. Well, mostly. It is Halloween soon.

All good things must come to an end, but this end of the Beginnings and Endings leaves you with a sneak peek and a new beginning: the show's next topic! In between those things is an ending episode with a middle full of great musical beginnings and endings. Confused? It'll all make sense in the end.

Suddenly vinyl is back! And now the old folks have the joy of explaining to young people that some record players would automatically lift and return the player arm when the album got to the end, while other record players would just let the stylus flap back and forth against the edge of the record label, looping through empty slack in the needle groove. Except when The Beatles decided to fill tha...

By the time you left 2020 for 2021, you were probably asking yourself, "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?" If you were caught in a landslide, with no escape from reality, we wouldn't blame you. Spend time with us to talk about some great beginnings and endings to your favorite songs or songs you've never heard before

2020 was rough, but in 2021, Life's Been Good anyway. We look at memorable, interesting, and fun beginnings and endings to famous songs.

In celebration of the now-international holiday of Black History Month, we share some of the very talented black performers without whom much great music would never have been possible.  Celebrate these amazing people and learn a bit about them as we once again share the love.

Part 4 of 4 concluding the episode series celebrating Black History Month 2021 - so many, many artists, we had to pick a small number of our favorites.

Part 3 of 4 in the episode series celebrating Black History Month 2021 - so many, many artists, we had to pick a small number of our favorites.