Rock Title Top Ten: Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) (#7)

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Howdy from the land of Normal! No, NOT me, but Normal, Illinois. It’s part of the Bloomington-Normal area, home to Lt.Col. Henry Blake on M*A*S*H (and the actor who played him, McLean Stevenson…this is McLean County, BTW [no it wasn’t named for him]). I’ll be back rocking and rolling on Route 66 after I give you another musical tribute to rock and roll. Here’s today’s song. #7: Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion To say “Reunion” was a band is terribly misleading. It was a bunch of session musicians who recorded this song (that today would be called “rap”) that’s a long one-word sentence tribute to music. There aren’t too many songs where you’ll hear ZZ Top, ELO, and Donny Osmond mentioned in the same breath. A little trivia: the lead singer on this song was Joey Levine, who was also the lead singer for the “Chewy Chewy” band (that also wasn’t really a band, just studio musicians) Ohio Express. Small rock and roll world, isn’t it! Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) Written by Paul DiFranco and Norman Dolph Recorded by Reunion Released as a single, 1974 Gotta turn it up louder so my DJ told me: