It's time again to hand the turntables over to Mini Moose. Here are her 7 picks for the week.
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SONG OF THE monDAY
Ben E. King's Stand By Me is the sixth highest earning song of all time, with royalties exceeding $17 million. The song was inspired by Sam Cooke's Stand By Me Father.
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SONG OF THE tuesDAY
I Want Candy was written and recorded by The Strangeloves in 1965. Bow Wow Wow's version of the song is a classic representation of the spirit of the '80s and its music.
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SONG OF THE wednesDAY
Many think For What It's Worth is an anti-war song but it's really about curfew laws that were created in LA to stop late-night traffic congestion on the Sunset Strip in the 60s.
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SONG OF THE thursDAY
There She Goes is by the band, The La's and was inspired by Velvet Underground's There She Goes Again. It's been covered by The Boo Radleys and Sixpence None the Richer.
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SONG OF THE friDAY
Beautifully written and performed, Gravity is one of Sara Bareilles' best songs. She wrote it about her first heartbreak in hopes of helping others going through the same thing.
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SONG OF THE saturDAY
Good Times (1979) was written by Bernard Edwards & Nile Rogers and recorded by CHIC. The depression-era lyrics were a comment on the US economic depression at the time.
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SONG OF THE sunDAY
Jim Croce is awesome. His I Got a Name was the theme for The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges, and was also used in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
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