Album Spotlight

This spotlight falls on the winner of the Grammy for Album of the Year for 1960 and the Grammy award for best New Artist of the Year.

The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart

(the most celebrated comedian since Attila the Hun)

Bob Newhart would be the only comedian to with the Grammy for Best New Artist and this was the first comedy LP to win album of the year.

The album would spend 14 non consecutive weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard chart, trading the spot with Kingston Trio, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

Original vs Remake

The original was recorded in 1960 but not released as a single by the Everly Brothers



The big hit version came from the rock group Nazareth in 1975, which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Original vs Remake

Today's original vs remake is the song "Tragedy". A #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit that spent 2 weeks at the end of March 1979 as the top song in the US.



The remake by the group Steps was a #1 song in January of 1999 for one week.

Billboard #1

Here is the #1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Chart for the week ending January 8th 2011:
Felt Good On My Lips - Tim McGraw


Here is the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 8th 2011:
Grenade - Bruno Mars

Your Classic Country Video of the Week

A #1 Country hit from 1974

Today in Music History New Years Day Edition

1966 - Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sounds Of Silence', a No.13 hit in the UK.


1969 - Marmalade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'.


1970 - Rolf Harris was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Two Little Boys'. The song was written by American composer Theodore Morse and lyricist Edward Madden in 1902.


1977 - Wings were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mull Of Kintyre.'
Spending nine weeks at No.1 in become the first single to sell over 2 million copies in the UK.


1987 - The Bangles are in the 3rd of 4 weeks at #1 with "Walk Like an Egyptian"


2000 - Santana with Rob Thomas on vocals begins its 11th straight week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Smooth".


2002 - The Top five selling UK albums of 2001:
No.5 - Shaggy 'Hot Shot'
No.4 - Travis 'The Invisible Band'
No.3 - Eva Cassidy 'Songbird'
No.2 - David Gray 'White Ladder'
No.1 - Dido, 'No Angel'.

2007 - Queen beat The Beatles to be crowned greatest British band of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in the UK. They pipped the Fab Four in a live contest, trouncing other finalists The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Take That. The bands were judged on song-writing, lyrics, live performances, originality and showmanship. More than 20,000 listeners voted by email, text and phone.

Top 10 Pop Singles of 2010

Here are the 10 biggest singles of 2010 according to Billboard Magazine.


10 - Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz w/Ludacris
1 week at #1 and 16 weeks in the Top 10

9 - Dynamite - Taio Cruz
Peaked at #2 in July with 18 weeks in the Top 10

8 - Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Peaked at #2

7 - Love the Way You Lie - Eminem w/Rhianna
7 consecutive weeks at #1

6 - Airplanes - B.o.B w/Hayley Williams
Peaked at #2 in June with 17 weeks in the top 10

5 - OMG - Usher w/will.i.am
4 non consecutive weeks at #1

4 - California Gurls - Katy Perry
6 consecutive weeks at #1

3 - Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Peaked at #3 in April with 19 weeks in the Top 10
The 8th most downloaded song in chart history.

2 - Need You Know - Lady Antebellum
The Top Country and Adult Contemporary Artist
Peaked at #2 in March, in the Top 10 for 16 weeks

1 - Tik Tok - Ke$ha
9 consecutive weeks at #1 and 20 weeks in the Top 10