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Along with a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in Gene Pitney, today you’ll get a two-for-one Country Music Hall of Fame song, since it’s a duet. A couple of people you’ve definitely heard of, even if you don’t know anything about...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Lead Me On

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 21 Oct 24

100 favorite country songs

Now we come to one song that I think surprises no one with its inclusion. There are songs in this world that truly earn legendary status, and this is one. After all, it was the title of a book and a movie. One of the...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Coal Miner’s Daughter

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 20 Sep 24

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The top ten starts tomorrow; and, as I said, seven of those songs are rock tunes. So if you can tolerate one more country song, you will have survived! The regular (alphabetized) part of this look at “ain’t” songs...

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Ain’t This a Countdown: You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 21 Oct 23

Happy Thursday, and welcome to another day of songs that were banned on the radio. For the second time we’re venturing into the world of country music (meaning Linda? NO!!!! ) for a song that was refused airplay on...

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Banned Songs: The Pill

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 13 Jul 23

Although inevitable, still incredibly sad. Loretta Lynn has passed away. The country music legend, who’s well-known throughout the world, died this morning (October 4) in her sleep at her ranch home in Hurricane Mills,...

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Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 4 Oct 22

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Coming Up Roses Top Ten: Van Lear Rose (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 29 Apr 22

Hooray! Doctor’s appointment day. I get to hear my doctor congratulate me on my weight loss journey. (Then he’ll tell me everything else that’s wrong. That’s the way doctors work, y’know....

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Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year)!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 14 Apr 22

April 14, 1932 was probably an unremarkable day in the world. The Depression was well underway. Poor people in eastern Kentucky probably had no clue that there was a stock market crash. It was in this world that Loretta Webb...

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Top Ten Shel Silverstein Songs: Ones on the Way (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 16 Mar 22

Another day, another song! Right now I’m celebrating poet, author, illustrator, and songwriter Shel Silverstein, who’ll be honored with a postage stamp for one of those things (author) next month on a postage stamp. I’m just...

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Sorry about the country music. This is the last one in this series of countdowns. At least everybody knows (or knows of) this song, so it’s not going to hurt too much. It might shock you to think of this song as 50 years...

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50-Year-Old Songs Top Ten: Coal Miners Daughter (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 26 Aug 20

Remember a couple of days ago when I said there were two “repeat artists” in this round of dual countdowns? What do you know, it’s time for round two from both of them! I certainly didn’t plan it that way. Let’s start in the...

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In the House Top Ten: This Haunted House (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 19 May 20

Let’s see...if we have my teenybopper on one end of these two countdowns about the lockdown (being stuck in the house and yearning for freedom), where can I go from there? Oh, yeah, one of the “girl singers” on one of my favorite...

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Free Songs! Top Ten: I Wanna Be Free (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 17 May 20

National Dolphin Day International Moment of Laughter Day (We could all use this.) 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary. 1902 - James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. 1939 -...

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April 14, 2020 - What happened that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222534) • United States 14 Apr 20

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Coal Mining Top Ten: Coal Miner's Daughter (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 28 Jun 18

Happy Thursday! Today I reach my second-favorite song about coal mining, and this is probably the ultimate "okay, who didn't see this one coming" song. It's probably one of the first songs you'd think of when someone raises the...

When I went on a weekend jaunt last month I stopped in Rosine, Kentucky on a musical pilgrimage. Rosine is the birthplace of the "Father of Bluegrass Music," Bill Monroe. This time around I was on the other side of the state,...

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Another Musical Pilgrimage (Part 1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 20 Jun 18

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Favorite BIG #1 HITS Through the Years: 1970 Country

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 2 Mar 18

From one of the best-known songs in popular music I turn to country music in 1970, and again I'm going with one of the most iconic songs in country music. This is one that everyone has at least heard of, if just by name. It's on...

It was touch and go there for a while: there was a pretty heavy downpour over the eastern part of the city. That's not where we play, however, and we made it through the tournament tonight. In a close one, I came in second...

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Before and After Top Ten: After the Fire is Gone (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 5 Jul 17

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