SiriusXM Catch of the Day

[scotchandcigar]

I actually like that one!

It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it.

 

[HecticArt]

But that would be cunty.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Heard on The Spectrum

 

[Channel98]

I Will Survive, from Cake's second album Fashion Nugget (1996), is a remake of an April 1979 number-one hit by Gloria Gaynor and reached #28 on Billboard's modern rock tracks chart in August 1997. Where Gaynor sang "I should have changed that stupid lock," John McCrea sang "I should have changed my fucking lock" – and the "bad word" is deleted from the video. I imagine The Spectrum played the uncensored version. I like Cake's version better than Gaynor's original. Vince DiFiore is the trumpet player.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I like the original better but I do like the Cake version too.

 

[HecticArt]

We play the cake version.
The sax parts sound great on a screaming guitar.

 

[Madison]

The life guard at the Y pool was playing Hits 1 tonight but I heard this one on my App. I put on the latest Hits 1 countdown that came out today hosted by Jen and Mack. I guess Spyder Harrison is on a Special Assignment. I wanted to find out if Bruno Mars took over the #1 spot over Taylor Swift but my program bugged out during the Madison Beer song somewhere around #10-13, so I didn't find out. But I found out Katseye Eat Zuchini song was able to stay in the Top 30 at #28. I wasn't sure if it would when it debuted two weeks ago at #29 and fell to #30 last week. It's great that a song with a message of eating healthy is out there. This song is really different from "Gabriella"

 

[Channel98]

Here is the SiriusXM Hits1 Top 30 for the week of February 7, 2026. The Fate Of Ophelia is in its ninth week at number one.

01 - 01 The Fate Of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
02 - 02 I Just Might – Bruno Mars
03 - 03 Opalite – Taylor Swift
10 - 04 12 To 12 – Sombr
04 - 05 Where Is My Husband! – Raye
09 - 06 Mr Electric Blue – Benson Boone
06 - 07 Man I Need – Olivia Dean
05 - 08 Gone Gone Gone – Guetta/Swims/Tones & I
08 - 09 Golden – Huntrix (Ejae/Audrey Nuna/Rei Ami)
12 - 10 Changing – Kevin Jonas
15 - 11 Bittersweet – Madison Beer
16 - 12 Bloodline – Alex Warren/Jelly Roll
NEW13 When Did You Get Hot – Sabrina Carpenter
07 - 14 Back To Friends – Sombr
13 - 15 Still Don't Care – Meghan Trainor
28 - 16 Sapphire – Ed Sheeran
19 - 17 Tit For Tate – Tate McRae
21 - 18 Die On This Hill – Sienna Spiro
22 - 19 Aperture – Harry Styles
20 - 20 Lover Girl – Laufey
24 - 21 Silent Treatment – Freya Skye
27 - 22 Chanel – Tyla
26 - 23 Dracula – Tame Impala
23 - 24 So Easy To Fall In Love – Olivia Dean
NEW25 Midnight Sun – Zara Larsson
25 - 26 Folded – Kehlani
NEW27 Gut Punch – Nick Jonas
30 - 28 Internet Girl – Katseye
29 - 29 Yukon – Justin Bieber
NEW30 The Great Divide – Noah Kahan

 

[sadchild]

*
04 - 05 Where Is My Husband! – Raye i've heard 30 seconds of it, that was enough

? 29

 

[Madison]

? 29

It's not a very good song

 

[Madison]

This was kind've my Catch of the Day during my noon bike ride. I had the phone in the front pocket of my jacket.

Watercolors: Rick Bruan "Give It All You Got". Except You Tube did not have the Rick Braun version, so this is the original Chuck Mangione



Watercolors is cool in the WinterTime. It is my winter Coffeehouse.
They even have an artist named Saxl Rose.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I remember that.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Heard this in the car with Mrs. Scotch on 70s on 7. It's 1974, so I don't think it's part of a countdown. I may have heard it on this channel, but I don't remember it from back in the day. It's one of those songs that rattles off a bunch of things (artists in this case) in rapid-fire fashion. It's by a band named Reunion.




Here are the lyrics. I'm not sure what the connection is, other than naming radio artists.

B. B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Righteous, Archies, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio...
Life is a rock but the radio...

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and Dale and Ronnie
Kukla, Fran and Norman, Okla Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie
Spoken: "Listen, remember, they're playing our song"

Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey, Make it bad and play it funky

Freddie King and Albert King B.B. King and frolicking
Get it on and Nat Gerardi, Papalardi, Hale and Hearty

There's a perfect more than human gentle words of Randy Newman;
One, two, three; so oh so please, I need a breather!
Tito Puente, Boffalongo, Cuba, War and even Mongo
(Line not credible) Peter Dial, Alex Hood, Boogie Brass
Whoo!!!

California, Beatlemania, New York City, Transylvania
S&G and (V&C?) and Bobby Vee and SRO, yeah yeah!

Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy
Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy


This song seems to have been influenced by it

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

It is played pretty frequently on 7 and The Bridge. I don't think I ever heard it in the day.

 

[Channel98]

Reunion was a New York studio group led by Joey Levine, who had previously been lead singer of the Ohio Express, best known for their 1968 hits Yummy Yummy Yummy, Down At Lulu's and Chewy Chewy. Life Is A Rock was cut from 3:27 to 2:54 for release as a single. Here is the long version. This peaked at #8 on the November 16 1974 Billboard Hot 100. It reached #7 on the Cash Box Top 100. In Los Angeles, the song was on the KHJ Thirty for 11 weeks, peaking at #13. The surveys listed the title as Life Is A Rock (But KHJ Rolled Me).

 

[Channel98]

Soimeone might tell me I neglected to mention the first Ohio Express hit, Beg Borrow & Steal. Their name was on the label but they didn't record the song. In February 1967, the Demotrons, a New York City quintet, released Beg Borrow & Steal. Producers Jeffrey Katz and Jerry Kasenetz had the Conquests, a Brooklyn Band, record a cover version and they released it as by The Rare Breed. Kasenetz and Katz then discovered an Ohio band, Sir Timothy & The Royals, and renamed them The Ohio Express. They then re-released the Conquests/Rare Breed single as by The Ohio Express. It peaked at #29 on the December 2 1967 Hot 100. Here is the original version by the Demotrons. They actually sing "beg, borrow or steal."

 

[HecticArt]

Heard this in the car with Mrs. Scotch on 70s on 7. It's 1974, so I don't think it's part of a countdown. I may have heard it on this channel, but I don't remember it from back in the day. It's one of those songs that rattles off a bunch of things (artists in this case) in rapid-fire fashion. It's by a band named Reunion.




Here are the lyrics. I'm not sure what the connection is, other than naming radio artists.

B. B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Righteous, Archies, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio...
Life is a rock but the radio...

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and Dale and Ronnie
Kukla, Fran and Norman, Okla Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie
Spoken: "Listen, remember, they're playing our song"

Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey, Make it bad and play it funky

Freddie King and Albert King B.B. King and frolicking
Get it on and Nat Gerardi, Papalardi, Hale and Hearty

There's a perfect more than human gentle words of Randy Newman;
One, two, three; so oh so please, I need a breather!
Tito Puente, Boffalongo, Cuba, War and even Mongo
(Line not credible) Peter Dial, Alex Hood, Boogie Brass
Whoo!!!

California, Beatlemania, New York City, Transylvania
S&G and (V&C?) and Bobby Vee and SRO, yeah yeah!

Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy
Conway Twitty, Do Wah Diddy


This song seems to have been influenced by it

I don't remember that song, but it's a freaking phone book of lyrics.

 

[Channel98]

Life Is A Rock peaked at #8 on the November 16 1974 Hot 100. Here is the top ten for that date:

03 - 01 Whatever Gets You Thru The Night – Lennon/John
07 - 02 Do It Til You're Satisfied – B.T. Express
06 - 03 My Melody Of Love – Bobby Vinton
04 - 04 Tin Man – America
05 - 05 Back Home Again – John Denver
15 - 06 I Can Help – Billy Swan
13 - 07 Longfellow Serenade – Neil Diamond
09 - 08 Life Is A Rock – Reunion
11 - 09 Everlasting fLove – Carl Carlton
10 - 10 Carefree Highway – Elton John

Bachman-Turner Overdrive's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet dropped from number one to #12.

 

[Channel98]

Tracey Ullman recorded Life Is A Rock for her 1983 album You Broke My Heart In 17 Places. The uncredited background vocalists are Julie Roberts, Rosemary Robinson, Miriam Stockley, Annie Whitehead and the Sapphires.

 

[Madison]

Heard this in the car with Mrs. Scotch on 70s on 7. It's 1974, so I don't think it's part of a countdown. I may have heard it on this channel, but I don't remember it from back in the day. It's one of those songs that rattles off a bunch of things (artists in this case) in rapid-fire fashion. It's by a band named

I remember it when it was on the charts.

In Los Angeles, the song was on the KHJ Thirty for 11 weeks, peaking at #13. The surveys listed the title as Life Is A Rock (But KHJ Rolled Me).

Chicago power station WLS did same thing. changing the line to
Life is a rock "WLS" rolled me