Friday, November 23, 2018

The Running List of Music I'm Trying To Find

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UPDATED (1/26/19): This will be scattered of sorts, sometimes posting certain songs while sometimes posting albums, and posting an artist if...
Monday, September 03, 2018

Rob's Fearless (And Always Wrong) 2018 NFL Predictions!!

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It's becoming a Labor Day tradition, and I need one, since my old tradition is no longer with us. Time for me to completely embarrass my...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Summer Songs, Memories, And 102.9 The Mater

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It's been too long since I've had a blog entry, so I'm carving out time on this day after reading a very interesting article fro...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

On To The Next Window.....

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The old saying goes that when God closes a door, He opens a window. I'm currently checking for open windows around or near me, or, may...
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Thursday, December 07, 2017

The Future Of Media: The Revolution Continues.....

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Radio shot itself in the foot with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. We've suffered through 21 years of Clear Channel/iHeart and o...
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Thursday, September 07, 2017

Rob's Fearless (And Usually Wrong) 2017 NFL Predictions!

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Life's been different lately. Having no bedroom for over a month has thrown the whole house, and the whole routine, out of kilter. So, f...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

First Look And Thoughts, Regarding Publix

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Yeah, I did it. But, in actuality, the title is a bit of a misnomer. Today, I took my first trip to Publix in Virginia on the first day ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Song #1: "Fire On High"--Electric Light Orchestra (1975)

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My first recollection of this song (which, in its edited form contains all of three words, the title, sung during the build-up to the finish...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Song #2: "My Sharona"--The Knack (1979)

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For a long time, this was my all-time favorite song. Around the beginning of August in 1979, I did on a typical Friday what every other pr...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Song #3: "Sausalito Summernight"--Diesel (1981)

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We've talked about the year in music 1981 extensively over the past sixteen months, a year that allowed for so much musical variety in t...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Song #4: "Face The Face"--Pete Townshend (1985)

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Keen observers of this countdown may have realized, thanks to a hint or two dropped along the way, that we hadn't heard the last of Pete...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Song #5: "When I Fall In Love"--Nat King Cole (1956)

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We begin the top five with, for my money, the greatest love song of all time. Originally written in 1952, the song first achieved populari...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Song #6: "Anything She Does"--Genesis (1986)

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Today, the highest song in the countdown that was never released as a single to radio. It comes from Genesis' wildly successful "In...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Song #7: "What's New?"--Linda Ronstadt (1983)

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Released in 1983, I would not be exposed to this song until two years later when I began my first professional radio job, spinning "The...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Song #8: "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"--Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)

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I can remember sitting in Mrs. Hartsell's class at Beaverdam Elementary School, counting years to figure out when I was going to graduat...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Song #9: "The Metro"--Berlin (1983)

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Four of the top sixteen songs in our musical journey came from the year 1983, and today's is the second highest ranking. It's from...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Song #10: "Sunset Grill"--Don Henley (1985)

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We've finally made it. The top ten songs begin now.  :) There was a pizza joint on the road between Lenox and Pittsfield, Massachusett...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Song #11: "Blue World"--The Moody Blues (1983)

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SURPRISE!! Out of the twenty, count them, twenty songs from my favorite group in the Rob Witham 500, none of them are in the top ten, as t...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Song #12: "50/50"--Stephen Stills (1984)

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It didn't get nearly the airplay it deserved back 33 years ago, so today's song certainly ranks among my favorite "hidden gems...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Song #13: "Big Time"--Peter Gabriel (1986)

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We're at the point in our musical journey where some of the top songs grew on me, and some of them had me at the word go. Today's so...