Yesterday I looked back on my past year of blogging, so today is about the year to come. Here are some of my plans for 2025:
Song of the Day #6,023: ‘Look Back – Diplo feat. DRAM
My new annual tradition is to dedicate my last post of the year to looking back at what I accomplished (and failed to accomplish) on the blog over the previous 12 months.
Song of the Day #6,022: ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – Cast of It’s a Wonderful Life
To wrap up 2024 and kick off 2025, I’m planning to write my “looking back” and “looking ahead” posts over the next two days. That leaves today as a bit of a dead spot.
I was torn between posting another Christmas song and posting a New Year’s Eve song, but one would be late and one would be early. Then I realized I could split the difference and post a New Year’s song in a Christmas movie, which averages out to December 30, more or less (ok, the math’s not perfect, but cut me some slack).
Song of the Day #6,021: ‘I Feel Fine’ – The Beatles
When The Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ showed up as the #1 song the week of December 29, 1964, I assumed I had featured it on the blog already. After all, I posted 80 Beatles songs as part of ‘Beatles Weekends‘ alone back in 2009.
But somehow I never got around to this one, The Beatles’ sixth #1 in 1964 (a record for a single calendar year). The Beatles would nearly repeat that feat the following year, scoring five #1s in 1965. I look forward to encountering those in coming installments of Throwback Weekends.
Song of the Day #6,020: ‘The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane’ – Ames Brothers
Today’s Throwback Weekend selection falls on my wife’s birthday, so I had to chuckle when the title turned out to be ‘The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane’ by the Ames Brothers.
This track sat at #3 the week of December 28, 1954, behind repeat Songs of the Day ‘Mister Sandman’ by The Chordettes and ‘Let Me Go Lover’ by Joan Weber.
Meet Me In Montauk 