Feeling Alright – You sure took me for one big ride. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #Traffic #DaveMason #JoeCocker #RareEarth #ChairmanoftheBoard #GladysKnight #TheJackson5 #IsaacHayes #FreddieKing I remember the first time I heard ‘Feeling Alright’ by Joe Cocker. I was at the Alpine Valley Amphitheatre in Wisconsin with a group of friends. It was playing on the house speakers shortly before …

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Feeling Alright

Originally posted on May 19, 2019

Remembering #DaveMason.

“I’ve got to stop believing in all your lies
'Cause there's too much to do before I die”

#Traffic #JoeCocker #RareEarth #ChairmanoftheBoard #GladysKnight #TheJackson5 #IsaacHayes #FreddieKing

Satellite – While I Spend These Hours Five Senses Reeling. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #DaveMatthewsBand Allow me to begin with a simple observation. Every band that has ever mattered started somewhere small. A garage. A basement. A bar on a Tuesday night with a handful of people in the room, half of …

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Satellite

35 years ago the #DaveMatthewsBand performed live for the ‘first’ time.

“Winter’s cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasen
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down
All around
Hey, satellite”

#davematthews #TimReynolds

Sign o’ the Times – Will Anybody See the Dawn? #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #Prince It has been 10 years since Prince died. Simply stated, it has been an awful decade. Today’s lead in could easily have stated – Sign O’ the Times – Prince and the Weight of the Wor…

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Sign o’ the Times

Remembering Prince ten years later.

“Tell me is it nothing
When the powerful protect their own
And the ones with all the money
Never answer for what they’ve done”

#Prince #BillyCobham #SimpleMinds #ChakaKhan #Heaven17 #NinaSimone

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die – Call My Friends and Tell Them There’s a Party, Come On By. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #WillieNelson #420 #SnoopDogg Happy 4:20! It has been quite a year. The Canadian government legalized the sale of marijuana in 2018 and all early reports indicate they have lost money. This is proof that the government can trul…

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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

Originally posted Apr. 20/19.

On 420/20, Willie Nelson hosted a ‘Come and Toke It’ live stream. He brought people together through music to support the legalization of marijuana & free those who'd been incarcerated for its use.

#willienelson

Bat Out of Hell – Praying to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock and Roll. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #MeatLoaf #JimSteinman Jim Steinman died on this day five years ago. For all he did as a musician, composer and playwright he will always be known best for being the architect of ‘Bat Out of Hell’ by Meat Loaf. While Mea…

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Bat Out of Hell

Remembering #JimSteinman through this classic track by #MeatLoaf

“There’s a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining, oh, so bright.
There’s evil in the air and there’s thunder in sky,
And a killer’s on the bloodshot streets.”

The Gambler – Some words of advice from a good man. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #KennyRogers #DonSchlitz #BobbyBare #JohnnyCash #LarryButler #TheMuppets Who among us has not uttered the advice contained in these lyrics, either to themselves or to a friend on occasion? Here is another question? Is ‘The Gambler’ a triumph of the human capacity to sup…

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The Gambler

Originally posted March 20/21.

Remembering song writer #DonSchlitz through this career defining song.

“You got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run

#KennyRogers #BobbyBare #JohnnyCash #LarryButler  #TheMuppets

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed – Summoning the Spirits with the #AllmanBrothersBand. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #DickeyBetts #DuaneAllman Admittedly, I got lost in this one. At one point I had 14 versions of this song in various stages of playback and every time I thought I had enough to share with my Ted Tocks audience I found anoth…

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In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Remembering #DickeyBetts with this #AllmanBrothersBand instrumental classic.

#duaneallman #warrenhaynes #derektrucks #dantoler

Joy to the World – Celebrating a #HoytAxton classic on what would have been his 82nd birthday. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ThreeDogNight #WKRPinCincinnati Here we have yet another awesome story about a song that is not often associated with its creator. ‘Joy to the World’ was written by Hoyt Axton and subsequently released by the band &#8…

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Joy to the World

Originally posted on March 25, 2018

On this day 55 years ago ‘Joy to the World’ by Three Dog Night was sitting at #1.

“I’m a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straight shootin' son-of-a-gun”

#HoytAxton #threedognight #WKRPinCincinnati

Roll Over Beethoven – A song that emerged as a result of a Berry family sibling rivalry. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ChuckBerry #TheBeatles #ElectricLightOrchestra Today we have a triple shot that takes us back to 1956. ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ is as fresh today as it was 62 years ago. Chuck Berry juxtaposes his desire to spearhead the movement towar…

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Roll Over Beethoven

Originally posted June 12/18

70 years ago #ChuckBerry recorded ‘Roll Over Beethoven’

Well, I'ma write a little letter
I'm gonna mail it to my local DJ
Yeah, it's a jumping little record
I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today

I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ultimate Bordom Anthem. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #TheRamones #JoeyRamone Today’s feature is a blast of punk nihilism presented by Joey Ramone and The Ramones, who exist as what many consider to be the Godfather’s of Punk. In the moment we had a narrator who was so bored…

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I Wanna Be Sedated

Remembering #JoeyRamone 25 years later with a unique take on this punk anthem.

“Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated"

#TheRamones

A Salute to Houses of the Holy – #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #LedZeppelin #RobertPlant #JimmyPage #JohnPaulJones #JohnBonham #JoshuaRedmanElasticBand #VanillaFudge #SlyandRobbie #LezZeppelin On this day 50 years ago, Led Zeppelin began a three-week run at #1 with ‘Houses of the Holy’. Ted Tocks Covers is on record as saying ‘Houses of the Holy’ is his favourite Led Zeppelin studio albu…

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Houses of the Holy

Originally posted on May 12, 2023

On this day in 1973 ‘Houses of the Holy’ by Led Zeppelin was the #1 album in the U.K. My favourite Led Zeppelin album.

#LedZeppelin #RobertPlant #JimmyPage #JohnPaulJones #JohnBonham

Killing in the Name – Some of Those That Work Forces Are the Same that Burn Crosses. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #RageAgainsttheMachine #BlueSkyArchives #FirsttoEleven Killing in the name of Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses” Rage Against the Machine I love it when groups burst onto the scene with a statement. Rage Against the Machine…

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Killing in the Name Of

Originally posted on April 13, 2019.

Thirty years ago today #RageAgainstTheMachine appeared on Saturday Night Live. Their performance was cut short when they attempted to hang inverted American flags from their amplifiers.

#BlueSkyArchives #FirsttoEleven

The Best of Roy Thomas Baker – The Eleven Songs of Roy. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #RoyThomasBaker Looking back at the career of Roy Thomas Baker there is an interesting timeline that portrays a fascinating ascent that saw him reach astounding heights with Queen and ‘A Night at the Opera’, but t…

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Seven Seas of Rye

Remembering the career of #RoyThomasBaker through eleven artists he engineered or produced and helped bring to lofty heights.

#Queen #Free #Nazareth #Hawkwind #Journey #TheCars #Foreigner #RonnieWood #AliceCooper #OzzyOsbourne #TheStranglers

Song to Woody – A meeting that took place sixty years ago today. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #WoodyGuthrie #BobDylan #ArloGuthrie #DavidBowie #FrankTurner What does it mean to be a folk singer? Two of the most prominent players to perform under that mantel have been connected for several decades. On this day in 1961, Bob Dylan completed his pilgrimag…

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Originally posted Jan. 29/21

65 years ago #BobDylan played his first show in NYC

“Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along
Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn
It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born”

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Baby I Love Your Way

Originally posted June 13/19

On this day 50 years ago #PeterFrampton was @ #1 w/‘Frampton Comes Alive’

“Shadows grow so long before my eyes
And they're moving across the page
Suddenly, the day turns into night
Far away from the city”

#bigmountain #dianaross

Lay Lady Lay – Stay While the Night is Still Ahead. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #BobDylan #TheByrds #HoytAxton #DuranDuran It seems Ted Tocks posts never stray too far away from Bob Dylan. While searching for significant events in music history associated to this day I discovered that it was on this day fifty years ago…

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Lay Lady Lay

Originally posted on February 13, 2018

On this day in 1969 #BobDylan released ‘Nashville Skyline’.

“Why wait any longer for the world to begin?
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you?”

White Riot – Love music hate racism #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #TheClash #Cracker #DropkickMurphys Out of the British punk scene of the mid 1970s came a band that hit the music world like a bolt of lightning. The Clash had the ability to do it all and they had an attitude to go with it. They wer…

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White Riot

Originally posted on April 8, 2018

On this day in 1977 The Clash released their self-titled debut album.

“All the power’s in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it”

#theclash #Cracker #DropkickMurphys

Spanish Pipedream – An Age of Aquarius Anthem. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #JohnPrine Today we celebrate a folk fairy tale from the post Woodstock era. In the words of John Prine’s biographer, Eddie Huffman ‘Spanish Pipedream’ is; a hilarious Age of Aquarius anthem, the hippie commu…

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Spanish Pipedream

Remembering John Prine!

“Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”

#johnprine #johndenver #TheAvettBrothers #thebrotherscomatose #stevepoltz #maggieantone #Palmyra

Tomorrow Never Knows – The gateway song to the psychedelic era. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #The Beatles #JohnLennon #GeorgeMartin #OurLadyPeace If you look back at the music of the ‘60s and monitor how the music evolved, you may be able to pinpoint the beginning of what became the psychedelic era to today’s feature song. ‘Tomorrow Never Kn…

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Tomorrow Never Knows

Originally posted on November 19, 2018

On this day 60 years ago The Beatles began recording ’Tomorrow Never Knows’.

“And ignorance and hate mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing”

#TheBeatles #JohnLennon #GeorgeMartin #OurLadyPeace

Solsbury Hill – A walk right out of the machinery. Best wishes to a good friend. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #PeterGabriel #Erasure I remember in 1977 a friend of mine turned me on to a new FM radio station in Toronto called Q107. I was in grade 6 or 7 at the time and until then I got my music from a constant shuffle of CFRB (p…

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Solsbury Hill

Updated Apr/24.

“To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
‘Til I thought of what I’d say
Which connection I should cut”

#PeterGabriel

A Monumental Day in the History of The Beatles – 12 Songs on the Billboard Top 100 #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #TheBeatles It has been sixty years since The Beatles achieved one of the most noteworthy accomplishments of their eight-year reign as the most successful recording act in music history. The Fab Four held the …

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A Monumental Day in Music History

Originally posted on April 4, 2024

On this day in 1964 The Fab Four held the top five songs in the U.S. Billboard chart simultaneously, and eight others resided in the Top 100. A feat that will likely never be repeated.

#thebeatles

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Face the curtain with a bow. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #MontyPython #BruceCockburn #HarryNilsson #ArtGarfunkel #IronMaiden Today is Good Friday and in reference to the ‘story’ of Jesus today we pay tribute to the brilliance that is/was Monty Python. The list of their fantastic work goes on and on but my&nbs…

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Originally posted on March 30, 2018.

A Good Friday tradition.

“When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best”

#MontyPython

Crazy – My Heroes Had the Heart to Lose Their Lives Out on the Limb. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #GnarlsBarkley #CeeLoGreen #DangerMouse I want to be like them. I need to take a stand. Call me crazy but in the present day I see way too many people standing on the side of apathy. One thing I notice is there are a many genuine people …

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Crazy

On this day 20 years ago Gnarls Barkley was at #1 with ‘Crazy’.

“My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on the limb
And all I remember is thinkin' I wanna be like them."

#GnarlsBarkley #CeeloGreen #DangerMouse

Top Three Posts for March and a Whole Lot More. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers Well, 2026 rages on. And I write on. Sadly, within the happiness and harmony of the songs I write using a tone of anger, despair and deep longing, hoping that better days emerge. Being an empath is…

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The Top Three Posts for March and much more.

Enjoy some quality music from #EmersonLakeandPalmer #REM #PinkFloyd #BrinsleySchwarz #ChipTaylor #JimiHendrix #JuiceNewton #TheClash and #TheMelodians plus a whole lot more.

Have a grateful day!

Wild Thing – Three versions of a rock and roll classic. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ChipTaylor #TheWildOnes #TheTroggs #JimiHendrix Up until today the songs I have posted have come with stories that I knew. I have had to check facts like dates and chart progress and other details, but basically the stories were shaking around i…

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Wild Thing

The Troggs recorded Wild Thing on this day 60 years ago.

“Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy”

 #ChipTaylor #TheWildOnes #TheTroggs  #JimiHendrix

Ain’t No Sunshine – Since he’s been gone the world hasn’t been quite the same. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #BillWithers Today’s feature is yet another prime example of why I write Ted Tocks Covers. ‘Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers has been covered well over 400 times and counting. For today’s feature I trimmed it …

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Ain’t No Sunshine

Originally posted on March 30, 2025

Remembering Bill Withers!

“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
It’s not warm when she’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long
Anytime she goes away”

#BillWithers

“I got this Boss.”

Rock Me Amadeus – Centuries of influence and a trip through musical genres #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #Falco #Mozart #MeekMill Today’s feature will span parts of four centuries and bridge three very different genres. Prepare for a little time travel that will take you from Austria in the 1980s to the life and times of one …

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Rock Me Amadeus

Originally posted on May 2, 2021

On this day 40 years ago Falco became the first German speaking artist to reach #1 on the U.S. charts.

“He was a punk and he lived in the big city.”

#falco #mozart  #meekmill

Poker Face – A #1 hit in 20 countries. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #LadyGaga #ChrisDaughtry #LeoMoracchioli #IdinaMenzel #LeaMichele When songwriters aim to have fun with their lyrics by employing a series of innuendos in their creative process, the result can often become a talking point that takes the song to another level of …

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Poker Face

Originally posted on March 22, 2020

Happy 40th Birthday to Lady Gaga

“A little gamblin' is fun when you're with me”

#LadyGaga #chrisdaughtry #LeoMoracchioli #idinamenzel 
#leamichele

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A Trick of the Tail

Originally posted on February 13, 2026

Happy Birthday to Tony Banks of Genesis!

#Genesis #TonyBanks #PhilCollins #stevehackett  #mikerutherford