Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Wheel

These times of staying home more often have undoubtedly given me plenty of time to listen to a lot of music, many of which I had not previously heard or at least wasn't very familiar with before. In addition, it gave me an opportunity to listen to many an obscure track by various performers who have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as of this year. As a lifelong fan with perennial Rock Hall membership as well as someone who has visited the Hall a total of eight times in person, I decided to create my very own Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Playlist Wheel!

This wheel will allow one to click on the wheel, and, perosnally, when it lands on a particular content, I will play that inductee or category examples on Spotify, Youtube, etc. Link to this wheel (partly inspired by Elvis Costello's Spectactular Spinning Songbook):  https://wheelofnames.com/view/2kt-dhb/

Category Descriptions:

British Invasion: Inducted British Invasion groups and bands (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Who, Hollies, Zombies, Yardbirds, Animals, Dave Clark Five, Small Faces)

Kings & Queen(s): Songs by Queen and inductees with the last name King (B.B., Albert, Freddie), along with songs by inductees with the words "king" and/or "queen" in their titles

Mo' Soul: Motown and classic soul/R&B inductees

Prog Power: Songs by inducted prog rockers (Pink Floyd, Traffic, Genesis, Yes, Rush, ELO, Roxy Music, Chicago, The Moody Blues, etc)

Funk & Punk: Parliament-Funkadelic, Ramones, James Brown, Sex Pistols, Clash, Sly & The Family Stone, Patti Smith, etc.

Brill Building: Songs and artists associated with Brill Building songwriting teams (Carole King & Gerry Goffin, Leiber And Stoller, Neil Diamond, The Drifters, Shirelles, etc.)

Vans: Van Halen and Van Morrison songs

I Am Woman, Hear Me Rock: Songs from female inductees

Fabulous Fifties: Inductees and their discographies from Rock'N'Roll's first decade in existence (Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, etc.)

Metal Mania: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Def Leppard, KISS, AC/DC, and other heavy metal and hard rock inductees

Charttoppers: #1 hit songs by inductees

Hope anyone who gets a chance to use the link above and click on the wheel has fun using it! In the meantime, wishing all please stay safe and healthy!

Corey's Choice Cuts, 10,000 songs!

Seven years in the making, I have just made a playlist of 10,000 songs (the playlist limit) a reality by adding a classic heartwarming plea of love and tolerance that is really necessary for our planet in these difficult times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UillI-tSgqY #coreyschoicecuts #10000songs

In Memoriam Music 2019-2020 Unofficial Grammy Follow-Up

Salutations blog readers and fellow music lovers and happy belated new year and decade!

It has been my pleasure and honor to pay tribute for the fifth year in a row to important contributors in the wide world of music who left us this past year but whose legacies will undoubtedly live on. 

Personally, while I know the Grammy In Memoriam segment for the awards telecast obviously can't include everyone in music who passed since the previous ceremony, I truly feel that some shown here should have med the final cut for the tube, like Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere, and original Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch performer Caroll Spinney. Partly because of that, this video is definitely longer than some of my previous video posts, however there were just so many music industry members who I felt need to be paid respectable tribute.

I opened this year's tribute video with one of Hunter's most well-known and memorable collaborations with Jerry Garcia, "Ripple," followed by one of my favorite song by classic 60's baroque pop group The Left Banke, "Barterers And Their Wives," to represent the group's recently passed lead singer, Steve Martin Caro. Following the death of English singer-songwriter Iain Sutherland, I decided to incorporate his group the Sutherland Brothers & Quiver's minor 1972 hit "I Don't Want To Love You (But You Got Me Anyway)" into the video below and it is heard here as the third song in it. The final two tunes I used are American-born British outsider music cult legend Scott Walker's short but sweet ballad "30 Century Man" and black British entertainer Kenny Lynch's cover of The Beatles' "Misery." In addition, I originally used Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" as my final song for my first draft of this video to represent its late composer Irving Burgie, but had to remove that version from Youtube because including it caused the video to be blocked in some countries. Both versions of my video appear below:

Please feel free to post any questions, comments, or personal thoughts of any of the individuals shown here.