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02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…8th (and final) Song-post for “Canada Day”!

I first heard of this artist in 2009…heard about 3 songs from him then.

BUT…I was in the middle of preparing for a DJ event…and couldn’t stay “sidetracked” any longer at that time!

BUT…THEN…three years ago…in May of 2022…I heard another song from him…then I listened to another…and another…and before I knew it, I was at least 2 hours into a “deep dive” in his big pool of songs!

I now know about 100 songs from this guy…and he has become my favorite Canadian artist!!

This featured song is one of those I “discovered” back in May of 2022…one that I fell in love with the very first time I heard it!

He is also one of my favorite artists of ALL-TIME…any country…any musical genre!!

He is considered a “Country singer”…but he also writes, and records songs that are Pop, Soul, Rock, Easy-Listening, and other genres!

This is my #1 most-favorite Canadian artist!

Here is Johnny Reid singing “A Good Friend To Me”:

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupA Good Friend To Me · Johnny ReidLove Someone℗ 2021 Johnny Mac Entertainment Inc.Released on: 2021-10-15Composer ...

02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…7th Song-post for “Canada Day”!

This artist was my absolute favorite Canadian artist for YEARS and YEARS!

Until…3 years ago!!

You’ll find out more about that artist in the next song-post!

For now though…this singer was very popular in the 1970’s…he was part of the “Soft-Rock”…”Easy-Listening”…”singer-songwriter” popularity then!

His biggest singles were…

“If You Could Read My Mind”
“Sundown”
“Carefree Highway”
“Rainy Day People”
“Baby Step Back”
“The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”

AND…A…TON…MORE!!!

This featured song is my favorite song from this singer!

This is my #2 most-favorite Canadian artist!

Here is Gordon Lightfoot singing “Cotton Jenny”:

"Cotton Jenny" is a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot for his 1971 album Summer Side of Life. The song was later released as a single by Canadian...

02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…6th Song-post for “Canada Day”!

This artist is a Rock Group!

They were very popular in Canada in the late-1970’s and early-1980’s…nominated and winning a bunch of Awards in Canada!

But it the U.S.A….nobody hardly knows anything from this group!

Unless you live near the US-Canada border to hear some Canadian radio station!

I first heard this group…this particular song…at a local roller skating arena…in 1979!

Imagine that…a roller skating arena…at the peak of the “Roller Disco era”…playing a Rock & Roll song!!

I went right over to the DJ to find out the song and artist!

And I went out that week to order that album!

And I bought several more albums of this Rock Group!

This is my #3 most-favorite Canadian artist!

This is the group called Prism singing “Flyin’”:

From the album "See Forever Eyes" from 1978 by the great Canadain rock band "Prism".

02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…5th Song-post for “Canada Day”!

This singer-songwriter was HUUUUGEE in the 1990’s and early-2000’s!!

Everything was a major hit on the radio…in Canada…in the U.S.A….and in many other countries!

And the albums sold MILLIONS!

The only female with three “Diamond” certified albums…meaning that each one of those three albums sold at least 10 MILLION copies…and one of those albums sold over 20 MILLION…that album is the 8th biggest-selling album of all-time…the #1 selling album by any female artist!

I know everyone will know who I’m talking about when they see the first song title here…

“Any Man Of Mine”
“Honey, I’m Home!”
“Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”
“You’re Still The One”
“From This Moment On”

And a ton of other major hits!

But…I’m going to “entertain” AND “educate” with this song…only her biggest fans know THIS song…and even fewer know THIS version of this song!

It’s not her usual “Pop” style…it has a very strong message in the lyrics!

This is my #4 most-favorite Canadian artist!

This is Shania Twain singing “God Bless The Child”:

02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…4th Song-post for “Canada Day”!

This artist has been recording since waaaaaayyy back in 1970.

Let me run down some of her big hits in Canada & America…

“Snowbird”
“Danny’s Song”
“Love Song”
“You Won’t See Me”
“He Thinks I Still Care”
“You Needed Me”
“I Just Fall In Love Again”
“Broken Hearted Me”
“Daydream Believer”
“A Little Good News”
“Just Another Woman In Love”

And sooooo many more!!!

But…I’m going to feature one most Americans have never heard…it never hit any chart!

BUT…in Canada, it hit the Pop chart…the Country chart…and the Adult Easy-Listening chart, peaking there at #7.

And this song brings this singer together with the singer from the previous song-post tonight!

The woman here is my #5 most-favorite Canadian artist!

This is Anne Murray, with Bryan Adams, performing “What Would It Take”:

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02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…3rd Song-post for “Canada Day”!

The rest of this Tribute to Canadian artists will be my personal favorites!

This guy has been around since the 1970’s…and was mostly popular in the 1980’s & 1990’s!

Songs like…

“Cuts Like A Knife”
“Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”
“Summer Of ‘69”
“Straight From The Heart”
“Heaven”
“Run To You”

And many other hits.

BUT…I’m going to feature one that didn’t do so well on the charts…reaching a peak position of only #52 in 1996 in the U.S.A.

BUT…in Canada…it went to #1.

This singer is my #6 most-favorite Canadian artist!

This is Bryan Adams performing “The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You”:

Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You, Live at Slane Castle, Ireland

02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…2nd Song-post for “Canada Day”!

This Canadian Rock group often gets put down…many people are critical of their music…I’m not sure why that started…but, everyone has their own musical favorites!

And why argue about it…you like it, you listen…you don’t like it, don’t listen!

And this song from them has some inspiring lyrics…a rare thing for a “Rock” song!

This is Nickelback singing “When We Stand Together”:

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02/07/2025

July 1, 2025…1st Song-post for………..

BRAND NEW TRIBUTE TONIGHT!!

It’s “Canada Day”!

So, I will be posting 8 songs…all by Canadian artists!

This first one is fairly new to me…a friend of mine in Canada just introduced me to this singer a couple months ago!

I’ve listened to at least 80 songs by him so far…but I will feature the very first one I heard!

I like a bunch of what I’ve heard so far.

Here is Roch Voisine singing “Helene”:

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29/06/2025

June 28, 2025…Songs that went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart in 1975

This is the song was #1 on this date in 1975.

Last week, we had a new #1 song…and this week, it is there for a second week.

That is a rare feat in 1975…at this point in the year…already half-way through the year…and only three previous songs have managed to last more than one week at the top…

“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” by Elton John
“Philadelphia Freedom” by Elton John
“He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)” by Tony Orlando & Dawn

And there have been a total of 21 different songs reach #1, in these 26 weeks…and this is only the fourth song to last longer than one week at #1.

So, 50 years ago tonight, this was the #1 song on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart…

This is the Captain & Tennille singing “Love Will Keep Us Together”:

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29/06/2025

June 28, 2025…Songs that went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart in 1975

This featured song is the fourth “EXTRA” tonight…remember, an “EXTRA” is a song that never reached #1 at any time on the Hot 100 Pop chart!

At the end of the story in the previous song-post…Barry Manilow’s “Could It Be Magic”…I wrote…

“if you listen carefully to the very beginning…you’ll hear a woman’s name…and if you know the reference, then you have a clue as to the next featured artist and song coming after this one!!”

The lyrics say…”Sweet Melissa, Angel of my lifetime”.

Barry and this singer first got together as people who wrote and recorded commercial “jingles”…songs for Mc Donald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, State Farm Insurance, Band-Aid bandages, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, and many other companies.

Barry and this singer also worked under Bette Midler, in her backing band.

So, Barry put her name in that previous featured song.

And, just like “Could It Be Magic” from Barry Manilow was on this week’s chart…so was this singer with this song!

This was her very first radio single.

Oddly…this song peaks at #6 on the Hot 100 Pop chart…the same peak position as Barry Manilow did with “Could It Be Magic”.

Although on the Adult chart, she goes all the way to #1 for 3 weeks.

In her career…on the Hot 100 Pop chart…she has 15 hits…but only one other one reaches the “Top 10”…”You Should Hear How She Talks About You”.

On the Adult chart, she has much greater success…18 hits…8 of them reaching the “Top 10”.

This is Melissa Manchester singing “Midnight Blue”:

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29/06/2025

June 28, 2025…Songs that went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart in 1975

This featured song is the third “EXTRA” tonight…remember, an “EXTRA” is a song that never reached #1 at any time on the Hot 100 Pop chart!

Earlier this year, I featured a song from this singer that went to #1 in January…”Mandy”.

A few months later, I featured his follow-up hit to that song…”It’s A Miracle”.

And this was the next single after that one………

Sooooo…this song…

According to this singer…a piano-player, and a song-writer, he has said that the melody was inspired to him by Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in C minor, Opus 28, Number 20.

And the lyrics were co-written by this singer…and Adrienne Anderson (who wrote many other songs for other artists)…and Tony Orlando (Yes, THAT Tony Orlando from Dawn…”Knock Three Times”, “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree”, and other hits).

On the album, it was a 7-minute recording…and in the 1970’s, and average length of a radio single was about 3 minutes.

The record label cut the single release to about 4 minutes…still long for radio at that time…but it got airplay…and made it to #6 on the Hot 100 Pop chart…and to #4 on the Adult Easy-Listening chart.

This song just entered the Hot 100 Pop chart this week, at #81.

AND…if you listen carefully to the very beginning…you’ll hear a woman’s name…and if you know the reference, then you have a clue as to the next featured artist and song coming after this one!!

This is Barry Manilow singing “Could It Be Magic”:

A music video for Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic" filmed on the sands of Copacabana Beach and featuring multiple historical backdrops throughout Rio De J...

29/06/2025

June 28, 2025…Songs that went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart in 1975

This featured song is the second “EXTRA”…and remember, the second “EXTRA” is from the Country Music chart.

Soooooo…I have been doing this Series of “Every Song That Went To #1, and a Few EXTRAS in 1975” this entire year…and actually started this Series last year for the 50th Anniversary of 1974 also.

And so many times, some of you have commented things like…

“Oh wow, a blast from the past!”
“I haven’t heard this song in years!”
“Oh, the memories this one brings back!”

And other similar comments…always Thankful for me bringing back a song they loved, but had forgotten about!

Welllllll…this song…it’s for ME!!

Throughout this Series last year and this year, I have done lots of research, and lots of “treasure-seeking”…listening to songs from those two years…and some are songs I have listened to frequently throughout the years since they were hits on the radio…and some have been songs that I listen to now and then, every few years or so.

BUT…THIS SONG…until a few weeks ago…I had not heard it since 1975…50 years since I heard!!

It has never been played on any radio since that year…at least, not when I’ve been listening!

It was NOT a huge hit…but it did manage to hit all three major Billboard charts…

On the Hot 100 Pop chart…it hits this week, right at #100…it only stays on that chart for three total weeks, and only makes it to #92.

On the Adult Easy-Listening chart…it makes it to #32, and only stays on the chart for 5 weeks.

It makes it best mark on the Country Music chart…staying on for 12 weeks…and reaching a peak position of #16.

BUT…I LOVE THIS SONG!!

And I love the Children’s Chorus backing this song!!

Here is Billy Thunderkloud & The Chieftones performing “What Time Of Day”:

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