reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: New Attitude (1984) side note: I love me some Patti LaBelle!! This is a great side! Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? See the video and watch it below! 1) In this song, Patti Labelle sings that she feels good from her hat to her shoes. Do you often […]
reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: the promise of a new day (1991) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) In this song, Paula Abdul celebrates the promise of a new day. Here at Saturday 9, we’re celebrating the promise of a new year. What do you hope 2022 will bring? An end […]
reading time: 3 minutes Saturday 9: friends in low places (1990) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. A side note… I adore this song. I’m not a country fan most of the time, but Garth Brooks is different! 1) In this song, Garth Brooks tells us he wore boots to a black-tie affair. When […]
reading time: 3 minutes Saturday 9: woman in love (1980) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) In this song, Barbra dreams of love. What’s something you’ve been dreaming of, or wishing for, lately? (It doesn’t have to be romantic.) A lot of things that are never going to happen, things of a […]
reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: Smelly Cat (1995) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) Poor Smelly Cat lives with negligent humans who refuse to take it to the vet. Who is the last doctor you spoke to (vet, MD, dentist, PhD …)? My general practioner a couple months ago. 2) This […]
reading time: 3 minutes Saturday 9: The Curly Shuffle (1983) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) This song is a valentine to The Three Stooges. Are you a fan? I watched the Stooges a lot growing up with my grandfather. There’s a sense of nostalgia associated with them more than a true […]
reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: Dead Skunk (1972) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) This song is about a poor dead skunk that stinks “to high heaven.” Have you ever experienced the spray from a skunk? OMG, yes. My mom lived on a river, her home backed up to the woods. […]
reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh (1963) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) TV writer Allan Sherman based this song on his own son’s letters of complaint from camp. Did you go away to summer camp? I went to Girl Scout camp once when I was 8 or […]
reading time: 2 minutes Saturday 9: Purple People Eater (1958) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) When actor Sheb Wooley brought this song to MGM Records, they initially rejected it, saying it just wasn’t the kind of thing they wanted to be associated with. Then executives discovered how popular the audition recording […]
reading time: 3 minutes Saturday 9: Mairzy Doats (1944) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1. While today this is considered a children’s song, “Mairzy Doats” was a #1 hit and a staple on radio stations in 1944. Do you know any of today’s most popular songs? (Here’s this week’s Hot 100.) I […]