As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Sunday, February 16, 2014

#82 Any Day Now -- Chuck Jackson (1962)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgE991VDwM

Soul singer Chuck Jackson had a long recording career without a lot of big hits – “Any Day Now” was his biggest, and it didn’t even make the top 20. It’s a great song nonetheless, even if more people may be familiar with Elvis Presley’s cover version.

This past Tuesday, which was the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first American concert (at the Washington Coliseum), the Smithsonian presented a program featuring Mark Lewisohn, who has published several books on the Fab Four, including the recently-released first volume of a planned three-volume biography of the group. He noted that at one point while visiting America, the Beatles sat in on a broadcast by famous DJ Murray the K, who let them request songs to play. Lewisohn presented slides featuring the songs, which included a variety of both well-known and obscure Motown tunes, along with songs by Chuck Berry, Richie Valens, and the Ronettes. “Any Day Now” was among the songs on their request list.
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