Sheldon Zoldan

English boy band member Liam Payne died in October 2024 after falling from his third-floor balcony in Argentina. Sheldon Zoldan’s Song of the Day is paying tribute to the musicians, singers and songwriters who died in 2024.

Singer, songwriter J.D. Souther was never an Eagle, but he soared like one. Souther turned down the chance to join the successful rock band because he thought The Eagles were already perfect. Instead, in the 1970s, he wrote songs for the group and other rock stars, as well as recording his own.Souther died Sept. 17 in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The cause of death wasn’t given. He was 78.Sheldon Zoldan’s Song of the Day is paying tribute to the musicians, singers and songwriters who died in 2024.

Sheldon Zoldan’s Song of the Day is paying tribute to the musicians, singers, and songwriters who died in 2024. Country music superstar Toby Keith died February 5, 2024, from stomach cancer. He was 62.

Florenz Ziegfield had chutzpah, if he didn’t, he never would have made the Broadway musical “Showboat.” The musical premiered December 27, 1928, in Ziegfield’s new theater. “Showboat” had a great score with such songs as “Ol Man River,” “Make Believe” and “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” but it was more serious than the musicals of the day that made it different.

Segregation on buses ended December 20, 1956 when the U.S. Supreme court ruled the law unconstitutional. The year before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her seat. The Neville Brothers wrote our Song of the Day about it called "Sister Rosa."

It’s hard to lose that loving feeling when “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” by the Righteous Brothers played more than eight million times on radio and television from 1964 to 2000. On December 13, 1999, music publisher BMI named it the most played song on the radio in the 20th century.

On Dec. 6, 1969, a Hell’s Angel member killed a concertgoer during a rock concert at Altamont Speedway in northern California. Rock historians like to call it the end of the 1960s, and the antithesis of Woodstock, four months earlier.

Some might argue George Harrison was the most successful Beatle after the Beatles’ broke up. He released 12 solo studio albums and two live albums before he died November 29, 2001 of lung cancer. The Song of the Day was written while he was a Beatle but after he discovered Hindu and Hare Krishnaism. Both religions focus on reincarnation.

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Sheldon Zoldan’s Song of the day recognizes “The Summer of His Years” as the first song written about his death.

“Stairway to Heaven” is the greatest rock song ever made, then again, maybe not. The debate started when it was released November 8, 1971, and it still continues.