Top Track Music

Booker T & the MG’s – green onions/ Some days I inspired by an old memory then there are times that I hear an oldie but a goodie on the car radio and I just have to share it with you. This song moves my soul. It’s so much fun. I hope you like it, and if you never heard it before, well your in for a treat. Enjoy.

In summer 1962, seventeen-year-old keyboardist Booker T. Jones, twenty-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper, bass player Lewie Steinberg, and Al Jackson Jr., a drummer making his debut with the company, were in the Memphis studio to back up former Sun Records star Billy Lee Riley. During downtime, the four started playing around with a bluesy little organ ditty reminiscent of Ray Charles. Jim Stewart, the president of Stax Records, liked what he heard and hit the “record” button. He liked the finished product enough to want to release it.^[9] Cropper remembered a riff that Jones had come up with weeks earlier and before long, they had a second song.

Stewart wanted to release the single with the first song, titled “Behave Yourself”, as the A-side and the second song as the B-side. Steve Cropper and radio disc jockeys thought otherwise; soon, Stax released Booker T. & the M.G.’s’ “Green Onions” backed with “Behave Yourself”. In conversation with BBC Radio 2’s Johnnie Walker, on his show broadcast on September 7, 2008, Steve Cropper revealed that the record became an instant success when DJ Reuben Washington, at Memphis radio station WLOK, played it four times in succession, this even before the tune or the band had an agreed name.

The single went to number one on the R&B charts and number three on the Pop charts and is now considered one of the most important riffs in rock history. It is featured in countless movies/trailers including a pivotal scene in the motion picture American Graffiti and on TV every year.

Supertramp-logical song/ This is one of those song through out my life that has always giving me a good feeling. I just  love this song.

“The Logical Song” was a hit on its original release, reaching number 7 in the United Kingdom, number 6 in the United States and spent two weeks at number 1 on the Canadian RPM Singles Chart for two weeks.

The lyrics are a “story of innocence and idealism lost” with Hodgson condemning an education system not focused on knowledge and sensitivity.

The song tells the story of a man who:

• is taken away from the unspoilt immediacy of childhood (When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical),
• undergoes education (but then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical),
• sees a future prepared for him lacking any spontaneity of reaction (And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical),
• feels constricted in his freedom of speech (Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal),
• is put under pressure to conform (Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable)
• and ends up confused, without a coherent self-image (please tell me who I am).

Ashlee Simpson – Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya). I think this is a cool song for her. Cool video too.

“Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)” is a single performed by Ashlee Simpson, the first from her third album Bittersweet World, produced by Timbaland, King Logan and Jerome Harmon.

Gnarls Barkley – Crazy. This is just a good song. I love the lyrics.

“Crazy” is the first single from Gnarls Barkley, a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, and is taken from their 2006 debut album St. Elsewhere. It became a top ten hit throughout Europe, North America and Australia, in the first half of 2006, reaching number one of the single charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand and other countries.

The 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In. Ok we had enough snow, please let the sun shine.

“Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In“, sometimes referred to as “The Age of Aquarius” or “Let the Sunshine In“, is a medley of two songs from the musical Hair (”Aquarius” and “The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)”) written by James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot, and released as a single in 1969 by The 5th Dimension. The single held the number one position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and was certified Platinum.

The song listed at #57 on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of all time.

I thought I go old school on you today. I was walking around my place yesterday morning singing this song. Fire ~ Pointer Sisters

“Fire” is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and originally intended for use by Elvis Presley. It was recorded first by Robert Gordon during 1978, and he received some modest album-oriented rock radio broadcasting with it. It was then recorded and released by The Pointer Sisters later during 1978, and they gained a major success from it, scoring number two during early-February 1979 on the U.S. pop chart.

Although he performed the song live from his 1978 tour onwards, Springsteen himself did not release his own recording of the song until his 1986 Live/1975-85 album, which contains his (heavily edited, to eliminate on-stage hijinks) December 16, 1978 performance. This version was released as a single (which contained the only “official” live version of “Incident on 57th Street”, until its appearance on Live in Barcelona, as B-side), but did not succeed, scoring only number 46 on the U.S. pop chart. A music video for the song was released at the time, but confusingly showed a completely unrelated 1986 acoustic performance at a Bridge School Benefit concert.

Train–Hey, Soul Sister/ This has to be the best thing I’ve hears from Train since drops of jupiter. Relatively new. What do you think? Sound off it’s easy and free. Leave a comment.

Dean Martin – Baby It’s Cold Outside. The main reason I posted this song today is that the weather in Pittsburgh is crazy. It’s got to be at least two feet of snow here.

Anyone got a song that would fit better? Sound off it’s eassy and free. Leave a comment.

This is suppose to be new music,but it was done in 2008. It has over 10 million views on youtube already. Enjoy. Who do you like better as a pro-former Beyonce or Lady Gaga? Sound off. It’s easy and free leave a comment.

“Video Phone” is a song by American R&B singer Beyoncé from her third studio album, I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008). The track was released as the album’s eighth and final single. Before its release as a single, the song charted in late 2008 due to strong digital sales. It was sent to U.S. radio on September 22, 2009.

It was going to be released on CD on September 22 as well; however, it was delayed to November 17, 2009. The official remix and music video of the song featuring Lady Gaga was included on the 2009 deluxe edition of the album.

I think it’s amazing how some songs just take off. Gotta give it up for Larry Platt. Simon was right when he said the general wrote a number one. I found Brent Morgan version on youtube.  I love this. What do you think? Sound off it’s free and easy. Leave a comment.

Jimmy Fallon did a parady of this but it comes now where near Brent’s version.