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Thanks for reading and listening every day!

Browns - Warner, Brady, Brock, Flutie And Flacco

50 Most Important Songs 1980-Present - #50

Forgotten Jukebox BB-18

CMML - The Mega Star Series - Alabama

Wynn At The Movies And More

Box Office Results - #1 -  Wonka  24 Million

#2 – Aquaman

#3 - Migration

New This Week  - Night Swim 

Next Week -  Mean Girls  /  The Beekeeper  / The Book Of Clarence  

Theaters – Are going to start offering more food and booze items and even have intermissions for longer movies – to attract more people

The Golden Globes - Are on Sunday The goodie bags are worth half a million bucks

Saved - 2023 is being considered a good year at the movies overall. Saved by Taylor Swift, Barbie, Mario, Oppenheimer, and Fast X - offset the writers and actors strikes

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane - Mega Star Series  (link)

Also - The 50 Most Important Songs 1980 - Present #50  (Link)

This month as we begin a new year, I am going to share  -  as we revisit my Country Music Memory Lane - Mega Star Series.  These are artists that are on the top shelf of stars of recent past.  The true Mega Stars of our format over our recent past.

This week we star off with Super Group  - Alabama.  We owe them an awful lot, as they really kept Country in the limelight during a time of real transition - from pop country to more traditional.

Super Group - Alabama

I'll Give You All My Love Tonight  - The Bellamy Brothers  -  1989 -  (Album - Crazy From The Heart)

As the Bellamy Brothers topped my 50 Favorites From 40 Years list with, Let Your Love Flow, seems fitting they also have a song in the Forgotten Jukebox.  This song is absolutely wonderful from a very different time.  This album, to me their best, and this was one of the big singles from it.  The Bellamy's recorded a lot of really great music in the 80's and 90's and were always on the charts with some 20 number one songs.  This was Top 5 and got a lot of airplay.  At this time, country was shifting far more traditional, and as you listen to this, you'll see this is not.  But what this is, is good.  Some of the Bellamy's music was hard to categorize, but it was always very good music.  They still tour and still play.

My Full Profile On The Bellamy Brothers

#50 -Don't Rock The Jukebox - Alan Jackson - 1991

This was Jackson's second number one early in his career.  It was also The Country Song Of The Year from Billboard in 1991, and propelled Alan Jackson to heights not yet seen.  This song solidified Jackson as a real force in Country and as a result of this huge song, he essentially went in on a 17 year run of #1's and top five's that is enviable. This song was immensely popular for about every reason a song is.  It was right on time and it's who Alan Jackson is at his core.  Fans sensed that, and gravitated to him in droves.  He will appear a couple more times on this list as his contribution to us is huge and immeasurable.  But even though this was not his first big hit, it was the one that made him a superstar.  Still gets played, still loved, still a great country song!

My Full Profile On Alan Jackson

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BROWNS - The Blessing

New Year- Long Feature Starts Next Week!

50 Favorites From 40+ Years Total Recap!

BROWNS - Guys Like Joe

Wynn At The Movies And More!

The Browns continue to win and you can start making your playoff plans.  Tonight the Jets come to town for a Thursday Night Game. The players don't like this short week stuff, and I will be glad when it's over and Joe Flacco is still upright and not hurt. The Jets have a great, physical defense that could make things tough on the Browns.  But the Browns should win this game.

Lots of talk on social media about the Browns and Flacco.  Lots of "Too many interceptions,"  and that kind of thing.  Granted, I am not thrilled about those either.  But we're throwing the ball about a thousand times a game and asking a guy who was just Netflixing on his couch to do it.  I'd love to see more balance.  There's also some of "The other QB's were successful too, let's not forget that.."  Truth is, we have forgotten that.  Not because we meant to, it's not top of mind this minute.  Plus, those many of those games were won by the lights out defense.

Be all that as it may, Flacco is here, he's in charge and this is his team right this second. Flacco is the perfect example of what I have felt for years.  I know, he is not the "New kind of QB,"  that's in vogue right now.  A guy that can pass, rush the ball, and make extreme plays that are great for Sportscenter or YouTube, or for some young network play-by-play guy to scream at the top of his lungs some stupid catch phrase he hopes ends up on those platforms for eternity.  Flacco in many people's minds is a throw-back.  Truth is, he's not at all.  He's the kind of guy who wins championships in this league. Big, tall pocket passers who extend a play just enough and most important of all, they stay healthy.  The list of these QB's is long, Brady, Montana, Bradshaw, Manning, Sims, Staubach, Mahomes to a degree, Williams, Elway, Roethlisberger, Favre, Rodgers, ......and Flacco. And a ton more.

The Browns sort of fell into this whole thing.  I'm not at all sold of them thinking Flacco was going to play much, or be this good. Truth is, Flacco has surprised everyone.  But the Browns came into this season with the Superbowl on their minds. And they also came into this season with a big question of how would the guy at the controls play.  And to add to that, a backup that was well over his head.  And another guy that had a limit, signed out of need.  The organization was not fair to any of them or the rest of the team, or us fans.  I was confounded at the time this was their plan.  Then injuries, bad play and a season starting to slip away, they called Flacco when there were ZERO options left to them.

What is happening now has everything to do with knowledge of human beings and I will not give the Browns organization that credit. The PLAYERS were looking for a leader, and with Flacco playing so well, these guys want to follow him.  They bought in, and are going with Joe no matter where this goes. And why not?  He is EXACTLY what this team needed.  It is so clear the PLAYERS were looking for his kind of leadership, and they started following him from the first play of the Rams game.  I also have never seen Stefanski so relaxed and happy as he is now.

How far can this team go?  As far as the great defense will take them.  Sure Flacco is playing well right now, and he does have championship pedigree. I have no doubt that Flacco will play as well as can be expected.  And if he does that, and this defense does what it can do, the Browns are a very tough draw in the playoffs, especially how the AFC is shaking out right now. The road to get to this point has been riddled with bones real difficulty and setbacks and still, here we are.

But when you know guys like Joe, I think the real key is this. Putting the Browns way aside for a minute.  HE has landed right where HE is supposed to be right now, and that's making all the difference.  For any of us in life, it settles us in our center when we know we are in the right place in the world, at the right moment, for the right reasons, with the right person.  And right now, that's the peace Joe Flacco is experiencing.

How on earth, did we get so lucky?

Box Offic4 Results - Aquaman  (28 Million)

#2 – Wonka

#3 - Migration

New Major January Movies -   Night Swim  /  Mean Girls  /  The Beekeeper /  I.S.S. /  The Book Of Clarence

Budget For Aquaman – Was 200 Million

This Weekend –  My 50 Favorites Over 40+ Years  - Year Long Recap Final  - (Link)

Each year Sarah and I pick our Top Five Country Songs for the year. And this year is no exception!

Here are my Top Five - And why!

        /  Waylon kind of driving under beat and a slick lyric line, this is as stone cold country as it gets right now.

         He's always great, but when Dierks gets the right song, with the right rhythm, I feel it's mandatory listening.

#5  - Tennessee Orange  - Megan Maroney

        I loved this song the first time I heard it. Country, visual, honest, from the heart, positive and makes you feel good.

Here is the FINAL Month of my 50 Favorites From 40 Years series.  It has this month and every month from the last year from 50 to 1!

Thanks for reading and for listening everyday!

December

#3 Startin' With Me - Jake Owen

#2 I'm No Stranger To The Rain - Keith Whitley

#1 Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers

November Recap

October Recap

September Recap

August Recap

July Recap

June Recap

May Recap

April Recap

March Recap

February Recap

January Recap