Is This A Rock Music Band? Many among us who lived through The Monkees era believe that they were a fake band who don’t deserve to be mentioned in any history of rock music. The Monkees were developed as a …
Appropriate For The Times While searching for a song about Saturday to add to my Weekday series, I read the lyrics for Saturday In The Park and decided that this was the Saturday song that is not only appropriate, but …
The Easybeats I wasn’t able to immediately remember this tune just by reading the band name and song title, but as soon as the video started the memories came flooding back. This 1966 song got a lot of play on …
About Thursday After casting about the Interwebs looking for anything that pertains to Thursday, it now seems obvious that people simply view it as the day leading into Friday and the weekend. I did find one obscure song that could …
RUBY TUESDAY Instrumentation Is The Key When this song was recorded in the fall of 1966 (released in early 1967) it was the instrumentation that caught everyone\s ear. It was a very unusual setup for a straight-up guitar-bass-drums band. During …
You Never Know What Will Happen This classic Monday song is reported to have been written in 20 minutes by John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas after being prodded by fellow band-mate Denny Doherty to come up with some …
This is the last post for my Weekday series. To review, there was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And now we have Sunday Morning. It’s Monday in Australia, but let’s not quibble. We are doing Sunday. Even though …
I couldn’t decide which tune to use for the Saturday entry in my Weekday series, but because the theme of these posts is lyrics, I have decided upon Another Saturday Night by Cat Stevens (regardless of whatever name he goes …
Alright! It’s Friday! TGIF and all that. I’ve been waiting for today impatiently. This entry into my Weekday series of posts is going to blow your mind. As soon as anyone mentions Friday in a music sense, you immediately think …
Well, we have reached Thursday, and everybody shrugs. Thursday is just the day before Friday, nothing more. I know I can hardly wait for Friday! However, it’s just Thursday, and I really can’t say anything that isn’t better described in …