Gene Stevens
Music Journalist and Podcast Host at CFZM (Toronto, ON)
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5 days ago |
zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens
HAPPY CANADA DAYI’ve got a very special edition of ‘Vintage Favourites’ this Sunday – ahead of Canada Day! Three dozen amazing songs that run the gamut from big band through 50s and early 60s rock’n’roll, and pop hits to campfire singalongs to stirring anthems.
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1 week ago |
zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens
Share on My recurring series on the great songwriters shines on ‘Doc’ Pomus this Sunday (June 22) as we approach the 100th anniversary of his birth. Pomus, with his writing partner Mort Shuman, gave us so many classic songs of the rock’n’roll era – from The Coasters’ ‘Young Blood’ and Dion & The Belmonts’ ‘A Teenager in Love’ to Elvis hits like ‘Surrender’, ‘Little Sister’, and ‘Viva Las Vegas’. There are so many Pomus-Shuman hits, some will spill over into ‘The Sunday Sock Hop’.
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2 weeks ago |
zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens
Share on It’s Father’s Day this coming Sunday (June 15th), and that calls for my annual compilation of ‘Dad Songs’. This year I’ve got over a dozen good ones from the 1950s into the 2000s. I’ve got something else as well – June 20th has been called ‘the happiest day of the year’ – I’ll explain why, and I’ll play you the five ‘happiest songs of all time’ – as ranked by an average of five different surveys and studies.
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3 weeks ago |
zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens
Share on Without the songwriter, there is no song. It sounds obvious, but we often forget about the fascinating process that starts with paper and pen – or nowadays, more likely on a screen – and winds its way through rewrites and edits, fine-tuning and production, before its release, and – hopefully – to your ears. The recording artists get to be stars, but too often, the songwriters are forgotten or overlooked.
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1 month ago |
zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens
Share on It’s one of our favourite shows of the year – when we dream of a ‘V-a-c-a-t-i-o-n’, to ‘Catch a Wave’, write ‘Love Letters in the Sand’ ‘Under the Boardwalk’ and remember those ‘Wildwood Days (and Wildwood nights) … when we sipped ‘Summer Wine’ with our ‘Summer Fling’ and went ‘Dancing in the Streets’ that ‘Summer in the City’, that ‘Summer of ’69’. We stretched that ‘Hot Fun’ ‘All Summer Long’. Was it all just a ‘Summertime Dream’ – now lost to that fickle friend – ‘The Summer Wind’?
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