Matt Hendricks

The album's title track, written by Hernandez, was a significant worldwide pop hit and also hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Written first as a hard-rock song, "Born to Be Alive" was also covered by Spanish pop-punk group Los Nikis, with lyrics consisting just of repetitions of Me voy a Benidorm.

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Here's today's quote. As explained earlier sometimes they are inspirational, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes they just make you say hmm....

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper

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"New Attitude" is a song performed by Patti LaBelle and written by Sharon Teresa Robinson, Jon Gilutin, and Bunny Hull. It was released in January 1985 and helped launch LaBelle's solo career as a pop music singer after the singer had spent seven years without a cross over pop hit following the break-up of LaBelle.

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Here's today's quote. As explained earlier sometimes they are inspirational, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes they just make you say hmm....
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power

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One of my favorite things is being celebrated on Saturday... It's National Record Store Day!  I personally have about 500 records, and I play them often!   One of my favorite places in town to get vinyl is The Corner Record Shop in Grandville! This Saturday is National Record Store Day!

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Here's today's quote. As explained earlier sometimes they are inspirational, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes they just make you say hmm....

We live in a time of transition, - During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments

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"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (commonly called "The Age of Aquarius" or "Let the Sunshine In") is a medley of two songs written for the 1967 musical Hair by James Rado & Gerome Ragni (lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music), released as a single by The 5th Dimension. The song peaked at number one for six weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in the spring of 1969. The single became the first medley to top the American pop charts and was eventually certified platinum in the U.S. by the RIAA.

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Anyone remember Nipsey? I do, mostly from game shows from the 60's-90's!  This is a guy that managed to stay on TV for almost 4 decades, for really, just being a polished and funny comedian.  Plus of course his trademark poems and "Words of Wisdom"

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The film's theme song was co-written by Mick Jagger, Daryl Hall and Eurythmics co-member Dave Stewart and performed by Jagger. Assuming the song would be a , "Weird Al" Yankovic requested (and received) permission from Jagger to record a parody version, "Toothless People", for his upcoming Polka Party! album. When Jagger's song failed to crack the Top 40, Yankovic considered not recording his version. Because Jagger had "authorized" the parody, however, he decided failing to produce it would be an insult to the artist and recorded it. Another song that was featured in the soundtrack which became moderately successful was Modern Woman by Billy Joel.

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Here's today's quote. As explained earlier sometimes they are inspirational, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes they just make you say hmm....

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Look What You've Done to Me is a 1980 song recorded by Boz Scaggs, and composed by Scaggs and David Foster for the movie Urban Cowboy. It reached #14 on the U.S. pop charts in November.The song, reflecting on a broken romance (as depicted in Urban Cowboy), features the Eagles on background vocals and instrumentation. Two versions of the song were released. The most widely available version of the song (as released on Scaggs greatest hits compilations) places more emphasis on the Eagles' background vocals, plus additional background vocal stylings by Scaggs towards the end of the song. The version as heard in the Urban Cowboy movie (as well as its soundtrack) replaces the Eagles' vocals with a female chorus.

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Here's today's quote. As explained earlier sometimes they are inspirational, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and sometimes they just make you say hmm....

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