Top 5 @ 5 Backstory – 7/29/10

And what the heck does it mean?

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KOOL Artist of the week – 7/29/10

Is imitation really the most sincere form of flattery?  I wasn’t expecting the answer Paul gave.

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Fab 4 @ 4 – 7/29/10

John Lennon introduces one of his best track from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band during a 1970′s radio show.

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Meet 7 year-old Rhema Marvanne from Carrollton, Texas.  She’s got QUITE a set of pipes!  She’s been on TV a bit over the last couple years, but makes her big screen debut in Gerard Butler‘s new film “Machine Gun Preacher.”  Want to hear more of this amazing young vocalist?  Click more.

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KOOL Artist of the Week – 7/29/10

Paul McCartney says it made The Beatles raise the bar even higher.

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Top 5 @ 5 Backstory – 7/28/10

I still think Hall and Oates are jerks for they boycott of the state, but they’re in the top 5 today.

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Fab 4 @ 4 Backstory – 7/28/10

Sir Paul had the answer in 1965.  more

(Not) McCartney Album Coversview gallery

While our KOOL Artist Of The Week, Paul McCartney had plenty of albums accredited to him, he had a few that were not.  This was by design – as he sometimes used pseudonyms.  Sneaky devil, right?  Try and find these!

KOOL Artist of the Week – 7/27/10

Some of them sure surprised me…   more

In 1974 I met a fellow named Bud Buschardt.  He was a tv director at WFAA television in Dallas, and I worked on the radio side of things.  We struck up a friendship immediately that continues to this day, cemented by our love of music.   Little did I know that day a lot of things would change for me.

Up to that time I had been an aggressive but not fanatic record collector.  Whe I went over to Bud’s house a few nights later I was blown away by the sight of 25,000+ 45rpm records neatly arranged in shelves around the entire room in uniform green sleeves.  Also in the room was a yellow/brown paperback book that would become the center of my own organization.  It was a book compiled by Joel Whitburn that listed the entire Billboard Hot 100.  Thumbing through it, I was hooked forever.  Thus began the quest to collect every single to hit the charts.  I began the search in earnest in 1976 and completed it in 1996.  Losing the first collection, I began again in 2004, and am about 80% toward completing it (through 1990 – that’s where I stop) for a second time.  But that’s not the big story today.

Today’s big story is:  70 years ago today, July 27, 1940, Billboard magazine published its first chart ranking of recorded songs.  On that date there were only 10 records listed, but it was a start.

Here’s the top 10 on that date – and no I never played any of these on the radio. more