Music

Every Friday, throughout the year, WGCU and Sheldon Zoldan have presented a little bit of history, a little bit of music, with a lot of music. As we close out the year, Fridays in December will go to honoring five musicians, singers, and songwriters who left us in 2022. Today we honor Olivia Newton-John who died August 8, 2022.

Dick Clark died in 2012, but he will always be America’s oldest teenager. He took over a Philadelphia dance show, called “Bandstand,” in 1956 thanks to the previous host’s DUI arrest. ABC began televising “American Bandstand” nationwide on August 5, 1957.

This fairy tale is about a so-so looking prince and a naïve, teen princess who didn’t live happily ever after. Prince Charles and Princess Diana married July 29, 1981. The Song of the Day for July 29 is "I Can't Make You Love Me," sung by Bonnie Raitt.

The Song of the Day for July 22 is "America the Beautiful," with words penned by poet Katharine Lee Bates in 1893 after hiking up Pike's Peak in Colorado.

The Song of the Day, “Guantanamera,” means “the girl from Guantanamo.” But it has nothing to do with the U.S. military base on the island.

We listen back to our episode from this past April featuring music from South Florida-based rap, hip-hop, and EDM artist, performer and producer Nory Aronfeld. From lo-fidelity beats to psychedelic instruments, to songs heavy on lyricism and wordplay, his original compositions are genre blending and genre bending.

Janis Fink started writing the Song of the Day "Society's Child" when she was only 13. It broke into the Billboard Top 40 on June 17, 1967.

Fridays are when we enjoy a new weekly series that's part history, part trivia, and ALL music. The series features selections from former News-Press editor Sheldon Zoldan's 'Song of the Day." The initiative began as a daily lockdown project on Facebook at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, through which Zoldan highlights how every aspect of life has a connection through music. This week's song of the day, for May 20, is “Rock Around the Clock” with Bill Haley and the Comets.

Fridays are when we enjoy a new weekly series that's part history, part trivia, and ALL music. The series features selections from former News-Press editor Sheldon Zoldan's 'Song of the Day." The initiative began as a daily lockdown project on Facebook at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, through which Zoldan highlights how every aspect of life has a connection through music. This week's song of the day, for May 13, is “When the Saints Go Marching In” with Louis Armstrong.

Fridays are when we enjoy a new weekly series that's part history, part trivia, and ALL music. The series features selections from former News-Press editor Sheldon Zoldan's 'Song of the Day." The initiative began as a daily lockdown project on Facebook at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, through which Zoldan highlights how every aspect of life has a connection through music. This week's song of the day, for April 29, is “Louisiana 1927” by Randy Newman.