is the first vocal track following the lead instrumental track on "The Division Bell" by Pink Floyd released in 1994.
The music was written by David Gilmour and Richard Wright.
Polly Sampson, who later became David Gilmour's wife, wrote the lyrics.

Found by the railroad tracks in Mexico I believe.

On the Road...

From the album Hyderomastgroningem

Off their 1939 album with Benny Goodman.

was a top ten hit in 1963 for "Ruby and the Romantics.
Eddie Holman's version, "Hey There Lonely Girl" was released in December of 1969 and was also a top ten hit in 1970.
There have been at least half a dozen other versions of this song released through the years by other artists.

"They gave a war and nobody came"

From the album Milliontown

The closing track from The Monkees fifth album The Birds The Bees and The Monkees, by which time they were a three piece band as Peter Tork had left.

is the only #1 single of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. It was on their August 1974 album "Not Fragile" and released as the single a month later.
Burton Cummings (who was in The Guess Who with the Bachman brothers before the advent of BTO) did a big band style parody of the song on his eponymous debut solo album in 1976.

is the final cut on 1971's "The Yes Album".

is the lead cut on the 1975 album "Gorilla" by James Taylor. It was released three months later as a charting single.

was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. When Jerry Lee Lewis released it as a #1 charting single in 1957 it broke sales records selling one million copies in 10 days.
A classic performance of this rock and roll standard is the karaoke rendition in the movie "Top Gun" in 1986.

is the eponymous lead track on the 1974 album "Todd Rundgren's Utopia".
I saw them live the following year in an outdoor venue at Nelson's Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio.

Their new album

was written by George Williams, Billy Jackson, and Roy Straigis and was a #1 hit for George's soul group The Tymes in 1963.
It was well covered by All 4 One in 1993 but my favorite cover is the lush version by Art Garfunkle included on his 1988 album "Lefty".

is track 4 on the Roxy Music album "Country Life" from 1974. It was written by vocalist Bryan Ferry and guitarist Phil Manzanera and utilizes flanging throughout the song.

is the debut single by Starbuck. Released on New Years Eve in 1975 it was a high charting single in 1976.

I've been trying to expand my musical input so I went down a YouTube rabbithole and discovered The Dear Hunter, an American progressive rock band that have released eight albums in the last twenty years.

Light is taken from the album Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional. The tracks on the album cover a variety of styles, with traditional AOR through to musical vibes appearing with some remarkable vocals weaving the story around the characters the band have developed over several albums.

was written by Kenny Loggins based on the A.A. Milne book of the same name. It was first released by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their 1970 album "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy" then released as a single in 1971.
Later in 1971 it was released on "Sittin In" by Loggins & Messina. I like this version best.

is the first and title cut of the 8th studio album by Yes from 1977. It opens with Steve Howe wailing on a (mounted lap? pedal?) steel guitar.
The album marked the exit of Patrick Moraz and the return of Rick Wakeman.
I got to see this tour at the (since razed) Richfield Coliseum in the round with Donovan Leitch as the opening act.

is the last studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and is part of the title of the second cut "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)".
The album also contains such classics as "Cross Town Traffic", "Voodoo Chile", "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".

was written by Mich Ralphs and is the first track on the eponymous 1974 album by Bad Company. As a single in 1974 it reached #1 on the Cashbox Top 100.

is the only hit that Chad and Jeremy ever had in the UK. Released in 1963 (1964 in the US) it reached #37 in the UK and #21 in the US.

is the title track of the 1984 album by Julian Lennon. It was a top ten single the next year.

This particular song named "Questions" was written by Stephen Stills and included on "Last Time Around" from 1968 by Buffalo Springfield. Stills combined it with a jam session and called it "Carry On" on "Déjà Vu" by CSN&Y released in 1970.

My favorite Gallagher song.


Yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah

is a top hit for the Guess Who from 1969. A 5:15 version was first released in 1969 on "Canned Wheat. This version has a keyboard/guitar intro, a longer guitar solo in the middle and an extended outtro. In 1970 the 3:44 single version with the drum intro was released on "American Woman".

is the title cut of the 1967 album by The Hombres. It was a single as well released the same year and made it to #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Another from OMD, this is from their thirteenth studio album, The Punishment of Luxury.

written by Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriot was a top hit single in 1967 for the Small Faces.
This is one of the first songs to utilize the flange effect. Flanging was accomplished by recording the song on two different tapes, playing them in tandem then manually retarding one slightly for that woosh sound. Flanging music later was accomplished by electronic means.

I didn't know they were still releasing albums to be honest. After a lot of UK success at the forefront of the synth revolution in the early eighties I thought they'd sat back on their laurels. But this is the title track from their eleventh studio album released in 2010.

is the 6th track on the eponymous 1966 album by The Young Rascals (who would morph into The Rascals in 1968). It was also a #1 single the same year.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Despite my age, I go down the front and jump around like I'm 20. It's such a great place to be, everyone sharing the experience. I'm still buzzing now.

is a top charting single by the Rascals from 1968. It was one of the first 45RPM singles released with stereophonic sound.
The first L.P. it was included on was "Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits" from 1968 as well.
In 1991 it was used in an add for Days Inn.

is the second to last cut off Randy Newman's 1972 album "Sail Away"
I has been covered by many artists since then including Etta James, Joe Cocker and Tom Jones.

How was it?

I'm going to see them in concert tomorrow.

was a #1 hit for Stevie Wonder in 1965.

I got the album Jeff Wayne's Musical version of the War of the Worlds for either Christmas or my birthday around 1980 and I still love it just as much today.

is the first cut from the 1967 eponymous debut album by the Cowsills. It was a #1 single in the same year.
The Partridge Family was a TV group based on the Cowsils.

The Big Moon are a British four piece band with some great videos. Pull The Other One has them running around in Sherlock Holmes' style trying to solve ridiculous mysteries.

is the title cut of the 1977 album by Charlie. The Song "Johnny Hold Back" was a minor hit from this collection.
The album sported a somewhat risque cover.

is a high charting single by Bob Dylan from 1969. It was included on his 1969 album "Nashville Skyline". It's part of the soundtrack for the 1969 movie "Midnight Cowboy".

Sorry, my bad!😁

I believe it's "I Just Died in Your Arms".

is the title cut from the 1973 album by the Steve Miller Band. Both the song and the album were #1 charters.

is the final track on the 1968 album "The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees" by, of course, the Monkees.
This is an anti-war song that ends with the lines -
"Two little kings playing a game
They gave a war and nobody came"

I believe this to be their best tune.

This was in my collection of 45 rpm records.

was written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown in 1967. It was released as a #1 single and included on "Wheel of Fire" in 1968 by Cream.
In the US it was cropped from 4:58 to 3:04 for AM radio play.

is the classic heavy metal song by Black Sabbath
from their 1970 album "Paranoid". It was also released the next year as a single.

The title track of the second album from this excellent Irish band.

was written by Fred Neil, released as a non-charting single and included on his eponymous 1966 album. The album was re-released in 1969 under the name "Everybody's Talkin'".
In 1967 Harry Nilssen recorded it and released it the next year on his album "Aerial Ballet" and as a non-charting single.
In 1969 the Nilssen version was used as the theme song for the movie "Midnight Cowboy" and re-released as a top hit single.

Their latest release

is the title cut of the 1970 album by the Guess Who. It was a #1 hit single that same year.
Lenny Kravitz covered it in 1999 for the soundtrack to an Austin Powers movie and released it as a 1999 hit single as well.