How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover
Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here is a landmark both musically and visually, thanks to its fiery, one of a kind cover.
“Drop Kick Me Jesus” Is Country Music’s “Christian-Football Waltz”
Today in 1938, the birthday of Paul Craft, an acclaimed songwriter and musician whose catalog includes probably the world’s best known religious country football song.
“Illustrated Songs” Were Proto-Music Videos Almost A Century Before MTV
MTV brought music videos to the mainstream, but it didn't invent them. In fact, there were proto-music videos almost a century before the cable channel first appeared.
A Blood Sample From A Late Composer Is Powering A Musical Experiment
There's a new musical work that is, maybe, kind of, sort of from a composer who’s been gone for several years.
Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women
Today in 1971 that the magazine Record World published an article about a new and very chill radio format that was the precursor of Easy Listening.
“Pomp And Circumstance,” A Graduation Tradition, Was Not Written For Graduations
Commencement season is here, which means a lot of people hearing a composition known as “Pomp and Circumstance.” Though that piece of music was not written with graduation in mind.
Don Calhoun, The Fan Who Hit The Chicago Bulls’ “Million Dollar Shot”
Lots of teams have fans try really difficult challenges to win big prizes. Nearly all of them come up short, but today in 1993, a guy in Chicago stepped onto the Bulls' home court for a million dollar shot… and made it.
Classical Music Can Calm A Fetus’s Heart Rate
There’s new research that shows just how powerful music can be: it found that classical music can have a positive physical effect on a baby before it’s born.
Happy New Year, Happy Same Galactic Year
Today marks the start of another Earth orbit around the sun, but there's also something called the galactic year, and that one just keeps going and going and going.
Chas Newby, Beatle Bassist For Two Weeks
Today in 1960, Chas Newby of Liverpool got a temp job that would he could dine out on for the rest of his life: for two weeks, he played bass for the Beatles.