Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-10-22

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Today’s playlist celebrates the November 10 birthdays of Warren G, Massive Attack’s Andrew Vowles, King Crimson’s Greg Lake, Ennio Morricone, Major Lazer’s Diplo, Miranda Lambert, Eve, Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins, The Capris’ Nick Santo, The Beautiful South’s Jacqui Abbott, Atlanta Rhythm Section’s Ronnie Hammond, Donna Fargo, Tracy Morgan, and Ben L’Oncle Soul; and the November 11 birthdays of XTC’s Andy Partridge, Wu-Tang Clan’s U-God, LaVern Baker, Marshall Crenshaw, Peaches, The Ides of March’s Jim Peterik, X’s Dave Alvin, Hardfloor’s Ramon Zenker, Half Pint, Dennis Coffey, Mose Allison, The Raveonettes’ Sharin Foo, Static Major, Stubby Kaye, and Chris Smither.

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Throwback Thursday: 1979

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Nineteen seventy-nine was a very good year in music. In compiling today’s Throwback Thursday playlist focusing on 1979 I had so many very good songs from which to choose. 208 songs, to be exact. That’s how many 1979 cuts bring me much joy. There are another 181 1979 tracks I also like. Somehow I was able to whittle it down to the 30 cuts below. Some years it’s a struggle to come up with 30!

Disco was at its commercial peak in 1979. So many of the disco songs that charted then remain popular today – “I Will Survive,” “We Are Family,” “Y.M.C.A.,” “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Hot Stuff,” “Good Times,” “Heart of Glass,” “Ring My Bell,” “Knock on Wood,” “Got To Be Real.” While the genre seemed omnipresent, there was more to 1979 music than clams on the half shell and roller skates roller skates. Hear what was going on below.

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