{"id":1863,"date":"2018-12-07T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:21:10","slug":"you-weekend-playlist-dec-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/evenings\/2018\/12\/you-weekend-playlist-dec-7\/","title":{"rendered":"You Weekend Playlist (Dec 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, every week we&#8217;re going to share some of the cool songs that we&#8217;ve been listening to this week<\/p>\n<p>Queen &#8211; Bohemian Rhapsody<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the announcement.\u00a0 Queen is going on tour, with Adam Lambert next summer including a show in Toronto (Tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.ticketmaster.ca\/queen-adam-lambert-the-rhapsody-tour\/event\/100055681A2A6E6E\">HERE<\/a>).\u00a0 It&#8217;s called the Rhapsody Tour, they have a movie that was nominated for Best Drama at the Golden Globes, and we&#8217;re going to highlight it&#8230;(Although you may just want to go down a Queen youtube rabbit hole, and watch the Live Aid 95&#8242; Concert in full&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc\">HERE)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJ9rUzIMcZQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Tea Party &#8211; Psychopomp<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of concert announcements, the Tea Party are coming to London Music Hall April 1st, 2019.\u00a0 (get tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/londonmusichall.com\/attraction\/the-tea-party\/\">HERE<\/a>).\u00a0 We don&#8217;t play this particular song, but it was the first one I ever heard, and I used to love playing it on the Saturday Night Request Show at my first radio station.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMZoiatUQJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Plastic Ono Band &#8211; Give Peace a Chance<\/p>\n<p>December 8th, 1980 is a date every Beatles fan remembers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s tragic to think of what the world lost that day.\u00a0 We remember John Lennon<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yU0JuE1jTk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen &#8211; Blinded by the Light<\/p>\n<p>We were brainstorming ideas for upcoming Classic Rock 20&#8217;s, and the topic of &#8220;Debut Singles&#8221; came up, and there are some obvious ones&#8230;(Love me Do by the Beatles, More than a Feeling by Boston, Alive by Pearl Jam) we started looking up different artists and their first singles, and this one came up for Bruce Springsteen&#8230;obviously much better known for the Manfred Mann version (still Springsteen&#8217;s only #1 hit).\u00a0 But the original has its own charm&#8230;and here it is<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RAzmCorgkPU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dean Martin &#8211; Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney reiterated in an interview recently that the song Blackbird was written about his observation on the treatment of African Americans (and specifically an African American woman he saw being discriminated against) and wrote the song Blackbird.\u00a0 So for those who thought the song was about a literal blackbird, I apologize for shattering that illusion.\u00a0 (I won&#8217;t ruin Puff the Magic Dragon for you, any more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VPkPuRBR3H8\">MEET THE PARENTS<\/a> did)<\/p>\n<p>Apropos to this, context matters&#8230;so this song is\u00a0in the news, again this Christmas season, for being &#8220;a little rapey&#8221;&#8230;If you&#8217;re looking for a reason to fight with the people who want to &#8220;ban&#8221; the song&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/RPbt2?fbclid=IwAR0fsBW9KuVGOI3TEgrelIKiiygFvLFgr5yWFalKY3xsAm8c8hd453yWE4Y\">READ THIS<\/a>, for some ammunition.\u00a0 In general, much like with the hubbub created by the gay slur in Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, context matters, and personally I think people may be overreacting to this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crFQpOCDfEc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>BONUS TRACK:<\/p>\n<p>And I really added Dean Martin, so that I could add this video, done by Steve Stax (of Classic Rock Mornings with Steve Stax) updated the song for 2018.\u00a0 Definitely worth your time today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClassicRock981\/videos\/368182597084404\/\" width=\"Enter width (ex: 610)\" height=\"Enter height (ex: 355)\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey, every week we&#8217;re going to share some of the cool songs that we&#8217;ve been listening to this week Queen &#8211; 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