POTD: Kids React To Led Zeppelin
Picture Of The Day: Despite playing them thousands of times during the first half of my radio career, I was never a Led Zeppelin fan. Still, I got a kick out of these kids’ reactions.
Another Covid Concert Cancellation
Another concert tour cancelled due to concerns about COVID-19: John Fogerty won’t perform at The Fabulous Fox in St. Louis on July 12th. But here he is doing a CCR classic at home with his family.
POTD: For The Longest Time
For today’s Picture Of The Day, a bunch of sheltering-at-home choral singers from Vancouver, Canada, perform a Billy Joel classic, with lyrics customized for the coronavirus crisis.
Tom Snyder & Little Richard
With the deaths of Little Richard last weekend and Tom Snyder in 2007, it’s delightful to look back at this perfect amalgam of a great broadcaster and a great entertainer, from a 1997 broadcast of “The Late Late Show.”
POTD: Sheryl Crow
Here’s Crow with a quarantine version of the best song I’ve ever heard about day drinking. Keep your eye on the guy playing the lap steel guitar.
POTD: “Bolero”
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s a sheltered-at-home version of Ravel’s “Bolero” performed recently by the members of the New York Philharmonic. If you close your eyes, you can see Bo Derek.
POTD: “Higher and Higher”
You probably know the versions by Jackie Wilson and Rita Coolidge, but have you seen it played by the Ukulele Orchestra?
POTD: Remembering John Prine
For the Picture Of The Day, in honor of the singer/songwriter who died of coronavirus yesterday at 73, here he is performing his most well-known song (made famous by Bonnie Raitt), “Angel From Montgomery.”