Monthly Archives: June 2022

Today’s playlist celebrates the June 30 birthdays of The Supremes’ Florence Ballard, Pantera’s Phil Anselmo, Lena Horne, Jai Paul, Girls Aloud’s Cheryl Cole, Sneaker Pimps’ Kelli Dayton, Patrick Wolf, and The Moments’ Billy Brown; and the July 1 birthdays of Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Blondie’s Deborah Harry, The B-52’s’ Fred Schneider, Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum, Village People’s Victor Willis, The Blues Brothers’ Dan Aykroyd, The Chills’ Martin Phillips, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Willie Dixon, Bobby Day, The Rembrandts’ Phil Solem, Keith Whitley, John Farnham, David Geddes, Plies, and Ivor Biggun.

Some publications/sites published their Best Of 2022 So Far lists at what they consider to be the year’s halfway mark, i.e. early June. Hey Billboard Magazine, 738 B.C. wants its calendar back! Zing! I attended class the day we were taught there are twelve months in a year. Today, three days shy of the year’s halfway point, I present to you my 30 favorite songs of 2022 thus far, with an asterisk, the asterisk being that I limited each artist to one song. No need to have The Weeknd hog several spots. Also, a few of these tracks were released in 2021; however, they hit their peak or received the majority of their airplay in 2022. I don’t think that calls for an asterisk, though I thought you should know before any of you leave a snarky comment. I’m against snark, unless it references the number of days in a year. Anyhoosle…

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 27 birthdays of The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston, The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Surfaris’ Jim Fuller, Amen Dunes’ Damon McMahon, Sixpence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash, Hum’s Matt Talbott, Byron Lee, and Andre Cymone; the June 28 birthdays of Mel Brooks, 2 Unlimited’s Ray Slijngaard, and Gilda Radner; and the June 29 birthdays of Little Eva, DJ Shadow, The Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster, Men At Work’s Colin Hay, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger, Yarbrough & Peoples’ Alisa Peoples, Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie, Johnnie & Joe’s Johnnie Richardson, Garland Jeffries, and Emily Skinner.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 25 birthdays of Carly Simon, Wham!’s George Michael, Harold Melvin, Toto’s David Paich, Eddie Floyd, Split Enz’s Tim Finn, Dazz Band’s Skip Martin, Faye Webster, Deep Blue Something’s Toby Pipes, and Peggy Scott-Adams; and the June 26 birthdays of Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Big Audio Dynamite’s Mick Jones, Ariana Grande, Chris Isaak, The Sundays’ Harriet Wheeler, The 5th Dimension’s Billy Davis Jr., Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na, The Wannadies’ Pär Wiksten, Berlin’s Terri Nunn, B.T. Express’s Louis Risbrook, Patty Smyth, Georgie Fame, Gretchen Wilson, and Mr Hudson.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 23 birthdays of Duffy, KT Tunstall, Imagination’s Leee John, The Orlons’ Rosetta Hightower, Adam Faith, The Floaters’ Larry Cunningham, JJ72’s Mark Greaney, June Carter Cash, and National Lampoon’s Norman Rose; and the June 24 birthdays of Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith, Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood, Solange, The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone, The Yardbirds’ Jeff Beck, Ariel Pink, The Notwist’s Markus Acher, Arthur Brown, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s Andy McCluskey, Local Natives’ Taylor Rice, Phil Harris, Siedah Garrett, and Michele Lee.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 21 birthdays of The Kinks’ Ray Davies, Lana Del Rey, The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Manu Chao, Pete Rock, Bomb The Bass, Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Greg Munford, John Paul Young, Brenda Holloway, Lalo Schifrin, O.C. Smith, Shakespears Sister’s Marcella Detroit, Sonique, Rebecca Black, and Jussie Smollett; and the June 22 birthdays of Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Todd Rundgren, Cyndi Lauper, Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside, Kris Kristofferson, Bronski Beat’s Jimmy Somerville, The Turtles’ Howard Kaylan, Schoolly D, Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Dicky Barrett, Jesus Jones’ Mike Edwards, Barenaked Ladies’ Steven Page, Just Ice, and Jai Rodriguez.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 19 birthdays of Nick Drake, Heart’s Ann Wilson, Lester Flatt, Shirley & Lee/Shirley & Company’s Shirley Goodman, Paula Abdul, Al Wilson, Macklemore, The Avett Brothers’ Scott Avett, Hot’s Gwen Owens, Spanky and Our Gang’s Spanky McFarlane, and Charlie Drake; and the June 20 birthdays of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Van Halen’s Michael Anthony, The Miracles’ Claudette Rogers, Duran Duran’s John Taylor, The Coasters’ Billy Guy, The Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Commodores’ Lionel Richie, Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek, The Rivingtons’ Carl White, Jerry Keller, Chet Atkins, and the Gibson Brothers’ Chris Gibson.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 17 birthdays of Kendrick Lamar, The Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Krayzie Bone, Barry Manilow, Amazing Rhythm Aces’ Russell Smith, Mike + The Mechanics’ Paul Young, Ricardo “RikRok” Ducent, and Mickey Guyton; and the June 18 birthdays of The Beatles’ Paul McCartney, The Boo Radleys’ Simon Rowbottom, Yaz’s Alison Moyet, Boyz II Men’s Nathan Morris, The Undisputed Truth’s Joe “Pep” Harris, Ray LaMontagne, Blake Shelton, and Tommy Hunt.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 15 birthdays of Harry Nilsson, N.W.A.’s Ice Cube, Erroll Garner, Slade’s Noddy Holder, Waylon Jennings, Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle, Kansas’s Steve Walsh, Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, Uriah Heep’s Bernie Shaw, Ruby & the Romantics’ Ruby Nash, Alien Ant Farm’s Dryden Mitchell, Neil Patrick Harris, and Meri Wilson; and the June 16 birthdays of N.W.A.’s MC Ren, 2Pac, The O’Jays’ Eddie Levert, Snail Mail, Blues Magoos’ Peppy Castro, songwriter Lamont Dozier, Banks, Robin Lane, Bénabar, and Matthews Southern Comfort’s Iain Matthews.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the June 13 birthdays of Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, James Carr, David Gray, Bobby Freeman, DJ Snake, Dyke & the Blazers’ Arlester “Dyke” Christian, Bo Donaldson, Paul Lynde, Malo’s Jorge Santana, and Slim Dusty; and the June 14 birthdays of Culture Club’s Boy George, the xx’s Oliver Sim, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas, The Zombies’ Rod Argent, Freddie Gibbs, Junior Walker, Faithless’s Maxi Jazz, Gunna, Mercyful Fate’s King Diamond, Linda Clifford, and Deer Tick’s John J. McCauley.

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