Song of the Day "News" by the Beau Brummels

Heard any interesting news today, at least if you live in the Detroit area?

That tune is "News" by the scarcely-remembered, but well-regarded Beau Brummels. A band that started off their career with two big hits, "Laugh Laugh" and "Just A Little" and then had nicely crafter 45s and Lps stiff, one after the other. You might hear the two tunes above on oldies stations. "Deep cut" oldie stations might play "You Tell Me Why" which was a worthy followup that scraped the top 40, peaking at number 38 in August 65. Not having been beaten to death by oldies radio gives it an engaging freshness. (I couldn't find a video on youtube that I could copy into this post but you can hear it on my Spotify playlist "Chadwick's Listening Room")

But, if you ever wondered why terrestrial radio has gotten so musty and non-creative, then take a look at this story from Upworthy.com.


The real reason they still play Mrs. Robinson on the radio.