Greetings and welcome to CHART ATTACK!, the long-defunct-but-now-resurrected series where we take a look back at a Billboard Top 10 chart from yesteryear, and try to remember what we loved about…
Gladys Knight
In 1979 the songwriting and producing team stepped out for a smash of their own
Natalie Cole emerged from a large shadow to become a star in her own right
Radiohead released their rejected James Bond theme song over the holidays. How did it stack up against the accepted songs of the series?
The Staple Singers let go of the past on this 1975 classic
The Slits’ cover of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” should have been that one song from the weird, still-breaking genre of punk that got some radio play and introduced…
Berry Gordy, Jr. served in Korea, returned to Detroit, got a job at Ford, and started writing songs for his friend Jackie Wilson. Gordy figured out two things. First, there…
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s a solitary teen mom left…