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1966 Top Ten: Sloop John B. (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 29 Apr

Maybe you didn’t believe me when I made those 100 favorites lists. Yeah, I really love these songs. Both of today’s songs are on that list. They were released ten years apart, but that doesn’t matter to me. The fact...

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2025’s “Top” Ten Music Losses: Brian Wilson (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 30 Jan

For most of you, the music countdown ends today, because the person who’s at the top of the list is there for me and few other crazy people. As far as impact goes, I would say this was the biggest loss in music...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: Sloop John B.

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 12 Nov 24

It’s dental cleaning day! I’ve taken my Tylenol so I won’t be annoyed by the technician digging into my gums. Before I head up there I’m going to provide you with the next two songs in the alphabetical list of my 100 favorite...

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Help Top Ten: Help Me, Rhonda (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 28 Mar 22

Do you know how hard it is to “weigh” a list of classic songs and put them in some sort of order? The top two on this list of favorites with “help” were easy, but things get bunched up here. Case in point: today’s song is one...

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Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers Vol. 9: Barbara Ann (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 22 Sep 21

Sit down, this one may shock you. Nearing the top of this round of songs that are big hits but covers, I saved the two biggest surprises for last. Let’s get started with this classic. #2: Barbara Ann I did a countdown...

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Songs Mentioning Songs Top Ten: Long May You Run (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 10 Jul 21

Ooh, the forecast doesn’t look good for tomorrow. Looking at the radar, we’d better putt fast today! But what else can we do? It’s our nature. There was that year of the finals in Richmond, Indiana where we were...

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Baby Songs: Dont Worry Baby

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 10 Oct 20

Home for a rest! It’s starting to get beautiful here, too. Lots of places around here to admire the foliage, so I’ll do that after lunch. But first, you need a song with “baby” in the title...well, maybe you don’t “need” it,...

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The Quarantine Countdown, Part 2: In My Room (#15)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 28 Mar 20

Hi! Welcome to this germ-free countdown of songs that have titles appropriate to social distancing. This will end on April 12, and hopefully so will the crisis. Here’s another song to sing along with by...

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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds CD

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222624) • United States 4 Jan 20

The Beach Boys are a rock band that was formed in California in 1961. They started out as a garage band; and their early music was the "California Sound" -- songs about surfing, cars and romance. They are one of the most...

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Wilson Phillips - Release Me

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222624) • United States 15 Oct 19

The American vocal group, Wilson Phillips, is composed of Carnie and Wendy Wilson who are the daughters of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Chynna Phillips who is the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the...

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Ten Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (Vol. 5): Barbara Ann (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 23 Feb 19

Looking at the weather map, there are watches and warning all over the place, from floods to blizzards. That’ll make you want to dream about summer and the beach. To help, here’s a summertime favorite....and you may not know it...

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Heeeres Johnny! Top Ten: Sloop John B. (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 25 Jan 19

And now, our musical weather forecast from Little Feat: COLD, COLD, COLD. But here's something to warm you up on this frigid Ohio Valley morning: more great music! This is the last "obvious" song on my list of favorites that...

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Yet MORE Songs You may Not Have Known Were Covers: Sloop John B. (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 1 Oct 18

Happy Monday! Ha, is that an oxymoron!! Oh, well, it's inevitable, and the weekly griping about it still hasn't stopped it from coming. Plus, I worked yesterday, so this feels more like Tuesday than Monday to me. Any...

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School's In Top Ten: Be True to Your School (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 17 Aug 17

Kids are going back to school all over the country, and that means the parents are cheering and the teachers are mourning! It also means that I'm counting down my favorite songs that have a school setting. And what do you know,...

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Now This Really Surprised Me!

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 2 Jan 17

I’ve been doing some research on songwriters and came across quite a few unusual facts. We hear a lot of songs being sung and recorded but sometimes we have no idea WHO WROTE the songs. Here’s an example: Did you know that...

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Music Trivia

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 23 Dec 16

Where do I begin? There is so much that I could write about music and its history. The information about thousands of musical artists and singers would fill many books. I tried to find some things that are not so commonly...

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Ten Songs You May Not Know Were Covered: Help Me, Rhonda (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 27 Oct 16

I've done a couple of series of discussions about hits that were cover versions, to many a reader's surprise. Here I'm looking at hit covers that everyone seems to have forgotten about. The last two are, as we say,...

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Ten Songs You May Not Know Were Covered: California Dreamin' (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 21 Oct 16

Boy songs, identically-titled songs, and songs that have cover versions! I'm a busy little hillbilly, aren't I? Here's another song that you may not know got a cover treatment. #7: California Dreamin' Sometimes you'll...

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Diary Monday 10th October 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 11 Oct 16

Quite a day today. It started with a phone call from an agency offering me some temporary work for the build up to Christmas though this has dreadful hours and it would clash with the post office work I have already secured for...

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Movie Review – Love And Mercy

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Oct 16

2014 – Spoiler alerts. The songs are legendary, We Get Around, Sloop John B, Good Vibrations, etc., but the Beach Boys had a far from harmonious life behind their vocal harmonizing. The troubles were particularly terrible for the...

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