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Who would like to start up another tournament of chart-toppers from the '50s? I have a whole new format planned. As always, you can be on a ping list if you are not already!

It’a that time of year again — that very special season when you can’t walk into a grocery store without getting ambushed by “Jingle Bell Rock” or dive-bombed by Paul McCartney wishing you a “Wonderful Christmastime.” Every artist who ever sells more than two records eventually tries a Christmas tune. The amount of great Christmas music out there is staggering. But along with all that Yuletide goodness comes plenty of Yuletide dreck. Our list of the worst Christmas songs includes psychotic butcherings of beloved classics, horrific attempts at new standards, hideous novelty tunes, and more. At the family Christmas party...

~Favorite Dark or Light Songs~ Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence *Video*We're Imagine Dragons - Thunder *Video*op thread

This song brought back memories from Jimmie Rodgers who was a legend. I believe he passed earlier this year if I'm not mistaken. RIP Jimmie. https://youtu.be/WaYGfPgb198

Biden Christmas impeachment song… Music here

~Favorite Running or Walking Songs~ Blake Shelton - God's Country*Video* The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian *Video*

Grace Slick's voice is the most underrated singing voice in music history.

~Favorite Good or Evil Songs~ Devil Woman - Cliff Richard*Video*Josh Ritter - Good Man *Video*

***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ The Freeper Canteen Music Dedication Presents: Halloween Music ~ *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time &...

Fordham University Libraries has added to its Digital Collections the archives of the long-running WFUV radio program, The Big Broadcast, which aired from 1973 to 2016. This collection has been digitized and made available through a generous donation from an anonymous donor. Hosted by Rich Conaty (1954-2016) for over four decades, The Big Broadcast enjoyed a near-cult following among fans of 1920s and 1930s pop and jazz. Conaty’s passion was infectious, attracting a devoted audience that included well-known writers and musicians.

"Baby Mine" is a song from the 1941 Disney animated feature Dumbo. The music is by Frank Churchill, with lyrics by Ned Washington. In 1988, Bonnie Raitt and Was (Not Was) recorded the song for the album, Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. "Baby Mine", sung by Bonnie Raitt (1988) - from "Stay Awake" (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films)

We sang patriotic songs in grade school (yes that makes me at higher risk of death from COVID). I’ve got a couplet stuck in my head from an old war song and even though everything is on the internet, I can’t find it anywhere. The lines are: “We did some fancy fighting down in Santiago Bay/And fixed it so Cervera found it hard to get away” Does anybody here know the song?

Thanks to Hollywood, America’s collective memory of the Vietnam War is now inextricably linked with the popular music of that era. More specifically, it is linked with the music of the late-'60s counterculture and antiwar movement. But opposition to the war was far from widespread back in 1966—a fact that was reflected not just in popular opinion polls, but in the pop charts, too. Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” by Staff Sergeant...

Perhaps you saw an article that appeared online recently in which Mackenzie Morgan, a worship leader at Refine Church in Lascassas, Tennessee, announced that she and her church would no longer sing songs that come from Bethel Church in California or Hillsong Church in Australia. After examining some of the teachings from both Bethel and Hillsong, she concluded that to sing any song that originated with or was composed by someone from either of these churches was dangerous. Morgan insists that when it comes to corporate singing in church, “theology matters.” “It matters,” she says, “if a song is weak...

"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" is a 1971 song performed by Carly Simon, and the lead single from her self-titled debut album Carly Simon (1971). Her friend and frequent collaborator Jacob Brackman wrote the lyrics and Simon wrote the music. The song reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Elektra staffers were worried the single was too emotionally complex to be released as Simon's first single. With subject matter that includes "the parents' bad marriage; the friends' unhappy lives; the boyfriend's enthusiasm for marriage but controlling nature; the woman's initial resistance and ultimate...

Nancy Wilson - "Something Wonderful Happens" (1960)

The FReeper Canteen Presents... Tell Us A Song That Shows Your Appreciation Of America*Video* The Americans*Video* Star Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It Before Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.

I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again Of the place we all lived that has gone plumb insane In the month of March, country called USA And here's what all of the people there say So long, it's been good to know yuh So long, it's been good to know yuh So long, it's been good to know yuh These woky old shmucks are a-gettin your homes And it's time to stop going along Covid-19 hit, and it hit like thunder It f@#$ed us over with a long string of blunders Blocked out twitter posts and "fact-checked" the...

The FReeper Canteen Presents... Tell Us Your Favorite Song That’s 4 Minutes or Longer!*Video* Bohemian Rhapsody*Video* Karn Evil 9 (29:36) Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.

This month we are marking the centenary of Nelson Riddle, perhaps the greatest of all arrangers of popular song. That's what Frank Sinatra thought, and we cite "I've Got the World on a String" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" as merely the obvious examples. But Sinatra and Riddle rescued a lot of other songs over the years - songs that had once been hits and then been forgotten, songs that had been in hit shows but no one had noticed, songs that had been in the stage version but dropped for the movie adaptation... But they rarely transformed...