Song of the Day

Strange the amount of times in writing these Song Of the Day posts is the amount of time I've bounced back to 1979. It was a pivotal year, punk was dying, disco was it's heights, what would be soon classic rock was rounding third into home, and the candy colored skinny tied "new wave" was in full swing, with bands like The Cars and The Knack bumping up against Led Zeppelin and Chic and e

Back once again is your K-101.7 Song Of The Day, where we give you a little back story, play you a song and then give you something free. What more could you possibly want, A COOKIE? FUDGE!?!

Alright, welcome back to our Song Of The day feature, how you been? You alright? You wanna win something? Of course you do! Read further! We ain't lying.

Headed back the eighties, to a scrappy little band from L.A. Mixing noirish subject matter and twangy snappish new wave mannerisms. Lead singer nasal, like a henchman with a musical career. It's a quirky early MTV favorite. All you probably remember is the face coming out the beans. Fair enough.

I'll say it. I think Creedence Clearwater Revival were the American Beatles. Scoff if you will. Pound for pound, hit for hit, CCR stand toe to toe with the guys from Liverpool.

Hey there, K-101.7 Faithful, welcome back to our continuing series of rambling song sum-ups, very popular in some quarters, covering songs you know and love, and are just dying to hear again. That's the way it goes in my head, anyway. Today we're getting Notorious!

Alright, these guys are out on tour, playing stadiums, seat going for as high as 700 dollars a pop in some places, crazy expensive, sure, but when will you have the chance to watch a really really old David Lee Roth croak his way through the Van Halen back catalog, his hairpiece flapping around like the lid on a tea ketle...

Oh yeah. They were one of the mainstays of seventies pop radio. They were like the Carpenter's kooky next door neighbors. He always wore a captain's hat. Except on this single cover, where he unleashed a mean man perm. She was your mom. They were The Captain And Tennille. And this was their last hit.

I dub you sir (or madam) reader of the Song Du Jour, The Tune de la French Word For Song I'm Too Lazy To Look Up, the K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

"Doot Doot dooo/da da doot da dooo/here comes your song of the day..."