December marks not only the end of the year but the end of a daily feature of mine — for now. I’ve been doing the #SongOfTheDay feature for over 3 years now but it’s time for a break. I’ve gotten wonderful feedback but I think it’s time for me to return to simply feeling the music as it arrives in my orbit whether it is from inspiration or situation, and when I do and I feel too exuberant to keep it to myself, you’ll be the first to see a post to a link. But the everyday required posting will be on hiatus for 2017. This is partly the reason I wanted to celebrate the whole year in music with one big blowout replay of all of the songs I featured this year over the New Year’s Eve weekend. At the time of this posting, that replay is still in motion and we haven’t even reached the halfway point yet. I hope you’ve been enjoying a look back and a listen at your leisure to personal favorites. But there is still one more #SOTD blog recap to do, and here we go…
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DECEMBER 2016 — December #SongOfTheDay offered the usual eclectic bunch of performers but it also offered a whole lot of themes. There were themes of Mail Delivery, Scandal, Life and Beating the Odds. And it wouldn’t be a month in 2016 if there weren’t a big musical loss that shocked (not to mention plenty of other entertainment losses including Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds one day later). For this month, we 80s kids bid farewell to George Michael (pictured above) and it felt like another jackhammer busting up our pop cultural foundation.
I continued my #ForgottenTunes feature on #ThrowbackThursday with some extra special songs from favorite artists of mine including Sheryl Crow and Queen, and from some I had not heard in years, like Adam and the Ants, Eddie Rabbitt and Scandal. As always, I hope you enjoyed looking back and savoring songs that we just don’t hear as much anymore as we used to on the radio.
Let us enjoy a final sway on the dance floor together with December songs as we wish a trying year a much appreciated farewell. ~ CK
#ForgottenTunes (gold italics)
| 12/31/2016 | Beginnings | Chicago |
| 12/30/2016 | It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over | Lenny Kravitz |
| 12/29/2016 | The Warrior | Scandal |
| 12/28/2016 | Long Way Back Home | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 12/27/2016 | I Can See Clearly Now | Johnny Nash |
| 12/26/2016 | Faith | George Michael |
| 12/25/2016 | Celebrate Me Home | Kenny Loggins |
| 12/24/2016 | The Good Life | Tony Bennett |
| 12/23/2016 | Once in a Lifetime | Talking Heads |
| 12/22/2016 | Drivin’ My Life Away | Eddie Rabbitt |
| 12/21/2016 | How to Save a Life | The Fray |
| 12/20/2016 | Life and How to Live It | REM |
| 12/19/2016 | I Will Buy You a New Life | Everclear |
| 12/18/2016 | Family Affair | Sly and the Family Stone |
| 12/17/2016 | Haunted | Taylor Swift |
| 12/16/2016 | Dirty Laundry | Don Henley |
| 12/15/2016 | Scandal | Queen |
| 12/14/2016 | Trouble | Lindsey Buckingham |
| 12/13/2016 | Secrets | Mary Lambert |
| 12/12/2016 | Rumor Has It | Adele |
| 12/11/2016 | What Is Life | George Harrison |
| 12/10/2016 | Circle of Life | Elton John |
| 12/09/2016 | Presents to Send You | Jimmy Buffett |
| 12/08/2016 | Stand and Deliver | Adam and the Ants |
| 12/07/2016 | Send Her My Love | Journey |
| 12/06/2016 | Handle Me with Care | Traveling Wilburys |
| 12/05/2016 | Fragile | Sting |
| 12/04/2016 | You Really Got Me | The Kinks |
| 12/03/2016 | Babylon | David Gray |
| 12/02/2016 | Road to Nowhere | Talking Heads |
| 12/01/2016 | Love Is a Good Thing | Sheryl Crow |
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