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If you’re just jumping on this list, I’ll explain the scenario. A few months ago, @rebelann made a joke about the songs I was posting making her rock so hard her chairs were breaking. So, last month, in her honor, I did a list...

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Songs to Dance To: Up Around the Bend

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 19 Oct

No question. No surprise. No shock. It would have been a total surprise if any other song topped the list of my favorite songs about the moon. I’m not that unpredictable. From my 100 favorites list, and...

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June Moon Top Ten: Bad Moon Rising (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 30 Jun

Can you take three in a row that you know? Yes, it’s another “big classic hit” on my list of 100 favorites to have made the Billboard charts, proving that I’m not ALL “weird college rock.” (Just mostly....

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My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: Lookin’ Out My Back Door

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 18 Oct 24

100 favorite rock songs

Sometime during this simultaneous countdown of my all-time favorite charted country songs and rock/pop songs you’re going to look at the two songs and think, ”Really????” This might be one of those times. What...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: Bad Moon Rising

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 8 Sep 24

100 favorite rock songs

My neighbor left me a free ticket to the Fair, so I’ll go get a pineapple whip in memory of my dad today. Before I leave here’s today’s song that was on the Clear Channel Memorandum of songs they thought weren’t appropriate for...

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Clear Channel Memo Songs: Travelin’ Band

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 18 Aug 23

clear channel memo songs

If you know me, you’ll know the top four songs. Or, maybe it’s more fair to say, there won’t be any surprises. That definitely includes today’s song with “someday” in the title. Hope you remember this one. [b]#4: Someday Never...

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Someday Top Ten: Someday Never Comes (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 18 Oct 21

someday songs

At least JJ knows the top two songs. Hope he concurs. But before we get to the top two we have to stop at #3, and that’s today’s position on my list of favorite sax solos. This one may surprise you. Then again, it may not....

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Hot Sax Top Ten: Long As I Can See the Light (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 2 Jul 21

favorite sax solos

Yesterday I probably left you wondering what I like better than Gordon Lightfoot’s masterpiece tune “If You Could Read My Mind.” Putting the top three of this countdown of songs that are now fifty years old into an order...

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50-Year-Old Songs Top Ten: Lookin Out My Back Door (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 30 Aug 20

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The countdown book on the legendary Creedence Clearwater Revival is closing today. I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at one of the best American bands ever. Here’s my favorite CCR song....NOT a big hit. [b]#1: Long As I Can See...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Long As I Can See the Light (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 11 Apr 20

I’m almost finished with the countdown of favorite songs by the great Creedence Clearwater Revival. As with yesterday’s song, here’s one that everyone can sing along with, even getting to mention a country singer in the process!...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Lookin Out My Back Door (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 10 Apr 20

Rarified air! The best of the best! Finally I’m in the part of my countdown of favorite songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival that wasn’t difficult. This has been more along the lines of “my three favorite CCR songs, and...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Bad Moon Rising (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 9 Apr 20

Music is so special because it can cheer you up when you feel bad. The Bay Area band Creedence Clearwater Revival were masters of that. Here it is, over 50 years later, and you can sing along with many of these songs on my list...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Down on the Corner (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 8 Apr 20

Some bands are just so good their music will live on. That’s certainly true of Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band that had a very short run but produced so many classic songs that you’d almost believe they had been together for...

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Favorite CCR Songs: It Came Out of the Sky (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 7 Apr 20

It’s time to sing along with another well-known tune from the legendary Creedence Clearwater Revival! I’m counting down my favorites from one of America’s greatest rock bands ever. Here’s today’s song. [b]#6:...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Lodi (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 6 Apr 20

It’s hard to believe that this band hasn’t been around for nearly fifty years, and yet their music resonates with the people who grew up on it as well as those who weren’t even alive when John Fogerty’s solo smash...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Molina (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 5 Apr 20

Time for another great song from a great band, Creedence Clearwater Revival. As Jeff pointed out in his comment yesterday, they weren’t together very long, but in that very short period of time they released a number of classic...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Have You Ever Seen the Rain (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 4 Apr 20

Oh, who didn’t see this one coming. Well, I suppose the people who don’t know this song from the catalog of Creedence Clearwater Revival wouldn’t think I’d use it. As I said at the beginning of this countdown, not all of these...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Sailors Lament (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 3 Apr 20

Music is an art; and, as with any art form, it’s subject to the personal tastes of those observing it. For my money, there are very few American bands better than CCR, which is why I’m celebrating their music with my favorite...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Bootleg (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 2 Apr 20

No foolin’, here’s another song from one of America’s greatest rock bands ever, Creedence Clearwater Revival! I’m counting down 15 favorites (that could easily be 20....or 25....) from this legendary band who owned...

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Favorite CCR Songs: Fortunate Son (#11)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86943) • United States 1 Apr 20