Back when I started in radio I'd get requests for Anne Murray's "Could I Have This Dance" for a lot of wedding anniversaries. These days I'll get more calls for "I Cross My Heart" by King George. But all of this song talk got me thinking about songs that are significant to me....
The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of the 29th of January, 1985. In a career that had taken him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s Shipyard, Greenock, to the top of the bill at The London Palladium, Chic was a complete one-off....
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Carrying their own gear up to the stage, Wallen, HARDY and ERNEST perched atop stools and strummed their signature songs on acoustic guitars, occasionally leaning into the microphone to add backing vocals to each other’s songs when moved by the music. Related The genre-melding HARDY kicked...
Anne Murray, "Could I Have This Dance" (1980) Capitol Anne Murray, "Could I Have This Dance" (1980) By now you may appreciate how many songs on this list of essential '80s country songs came from the early 1980s. Anne Murray dominated then. The Canadian-born singer was a crossover ...