Box Office Results -   Five Nights At Freddies  -  (19 million)

#2 Era's Tour   -   (9 Million)   /    Killers Of The Flower Moon -  #3 (7 million)

New This Week - The Marvels  /  It's A Wonderful Knife  / The Holdovers  /   Journey To Bethlehem

BTW - Thanksgiving comes out  Next Week

BTW Again - Napoleon -  (Thanksgiving)

BOOM - The final episodes of Yellowstone will debut in November 2024, Paramount has also greenlit two new spinoff series — 1944 and 2024. 

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane (link)

Also - My 50 Favorites Over 40+ Years This Week #7  (Link)

Pam Tillis is still active by touring and performing a lot, and has a big social media presence.  Abbie, a great listener asked me if I ad ever featured here in this series and I said "yes."   She said she must have missed it. 

Well, let's look at Pam Tillis again. I wrote this a year or two ago.  Pam Tillis had a great run and is a remarkable singer.  I loved about all of her songs, and her passion is enviable.

Pam Tillis (Revisit)

Highway 101 - Cry, Cry, Cry - 1988

For a few very good years, Paulette Carlson and her band Highway 101  from California were really on top.  They had a bunch of big songs in a very short time and fans loved them.  They were there at the start of a real country explosion as they were part of it as the format was changing quickly.  They were young, cool, uptempo and seemed to be right on time as bands were getting a footbold other than Alabama.  Carlson also possessed an incredibly distinctive voice that cut through like few have in country history.  Many likened her to Stevie Nix and there were similarities. Mainly she had that few notes below normal register and a souly and bluesy style.  They had the right idea with four number ones in about three years.  The Bed You Made For Me, was a powerful song too that only went #4, but fans loved it.  But in 1990, Carlson left the band for her own solo career that never took off and she was replaced with Nikki Nelson but things for either side was never the same.  It's a phenomenon that I can't explain, almost every time a band front person in country leaves for a solo career it seldom works out.  But man were they great, and is this a great song!

 My Full Profile On Highway 101

Steve Holy  - Good Morning Beautiful  - 2001 -  (Album  -  Blue Moon)

Steve Holy had a very unusual run, he had a few very big songs, and some that were not big hits at all. Some of those smaller hits like, The Hunger were songs I really liked. I always felt that his music was easy to like and were put together quite well.  This album had that song on it and it was a very mild hit.  But this song was a very different story. I remember the first time I played this song, I knew it was a big hit. This is one of the most requested songs I can remember when it was popular.  This became many young couples "song" and was relatable to about anyone that had ever been in, or was in love.  I always amazed me this was the fourth song released from this project, as it was clearly the single that had the best chance of hitting it big.  All these years later, it's still as timeless as it was then and still speaks directly to those in love for 20 years or 20 minutes.

#7 - Deana Carter – Strawberry Wine  - 1996

It's a song that defined a brand new generation of country listeners.  It was a major hit song on the Country charts and far beyond.  This was a perfect generational anthem as can be written and It spoke directly to the new fans we had and the older ones too.  Everyone has a story to tell and remembers the pivotal moments in life, and this dares to share them in song.  Deana Carter was the perfect artist for this remarkable song and she sings it with grit, honesty and you can hear the mixed feelings of regret and fondness all at the same time.  I remember the first time I played this song on the air at WPCV in Lakeland, Florida doing the morning show and saying to my on air partner Tom O'Brien, "This is a total smash hit song!"   This has stood the ultimate test in our format and that is the test of time. With Country, as it's always evolving from traditional to pop country to Bro Country, back to regular country, rock country, Coffee House Country, and so on, this song still gets played and still gets turned way up on radios all over the country when it's on.  Award winning, directly immitated, and loved, this is the definition of a hit major hit song. A story telling gem!

Last Week #8

My Full Profile On Deana Carter

Lots of people think that it's hard to make French Onion Soup like you get in a restaurant.  BUT if you've never made it, you can, and it's great, and it's not expensive.  After you make a ton of it, you'll see how profitable it is for the restaurants.

You Can Make French Onion Soup!

My guess is the 5 hour charter flight home from Seattle on Sunday night was an interesting one after the Browns let one get away 24-20.  A game they really had no business losing bringing our record to 4-3.  Granted, Seattle is a difficult place to win and the Browns are facing some challenges with Watson being out and other injuries, and that's what makes this so hard to swallow.  We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. 

This was not on the players, this one is squarely on the coach. Up until the crucial moment, the coach had a very good day coming back from 14 down in a tough environment.    Would someone else please tell the coach that you don't put your third string QB in a bad position when there are other options to close out a well played game?  The only way the Browns were going to lose that game is by giving it away, and Stefanski was happy to oblige.  He put the entire game in the hands of a journeyman QB with 2 minutes to go and it wasn't fair to him or the team.  After the interception, you could see the Browns were totally shell shocked and the Seahawks were completely rejuvenated.  Those intangibles again are a blind spot for this coach -  the game within the game.

Third string QB P.J. Walker played about as well as he's going to play in any game at the NFL level. In fact, he played about as well as Watson has in any single game since we signed the Bezos priced QB a couple years ago.  And Stefanski rewarded his QB and his team by making a totally Bozo-ic play call of a pass on a critical third down that resulted in a truly fluky interception that a couple minutes later cost us the game.  Say it with me - run the ball, and if you don't get it, punt it away with the leagues BEST PUNTER and make Seattle drive 90 yards against NFL's BEST DEFENSE - OURS!!!  Why is this so hard?  If Seattle drives the field and scores they deserve to win.  But that was not going to happen from deep in their own end.

Seattle had not moved the ball since the first quarter and wasn't going to then either.  Would someone please tell Stefanski that he has the best defense in the league and that's the reason we have a winning record?  Does he know?  What in the world is wrong with him in these kind of moments?  There comes a moment that you have to stop being the worlds smartest man in your own mind  - and understand you now look incompetent in everyone else's  - yet again.  Including your 53 man roster and staff.

The players have to be sick and silently steaming over this.  Putting Walker in a position to fail after playing so well all day when that was the last thing that was necessary.  Yes, it was a fluky play that wouldn't happen again, but it happened Sunday and we paid the price.  I'm guessing that ride home was a very tense one.  The only thing that diffuses that is Stefanski being accountable for his boneheaded snafu, but that's not in his DNA at all.  There is no other real way to look at this. He put a good dude who played hard in a position to fail when we couldn't afford to. 

Arizona today and we have no business losing this game either.  Kevin humble yourself, take accountability and make far better decisions when it matters going forward.

GO BROWNS!!

Here is my recap of the songs I featured in October in my 50 Favorites From 40 Years - year long countdown. I have also included the recap of every month this year if you are just jumping on.

Grab some earbuds and let's get caught up!

#8 - George Strait - Amarillo By Morning

#9 - Holly Dunn - Someday

#10 - George Jones – Still Doin' Time

#11- Hank Williams Jr - Country Boy Can Survive

#12 - Clint Black – Killin' Time

Other  Months

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

January

In case you missed some of my articles from WQMX.com this week here is a recap. Grab a coffee and your earbuds and let's get caught up!  Thanks for reading and listening every day!

BROWNS - Fortuitous

Eat Of The Week

50 Favorites From 40+ Years #8

Forgotten Jukebox T-96

Country Music Memory Lane - Trace Adkins

Wynn At The Movies And More

Box Office Results - Five Nights At Freddies - (78 million)

#2 Era's Tour   -  (15 Million)     #3 Killers Of The Flower Moon  -  (9 million)

New This Week - What Happens Later / Pricilla

BTW - The Marvels comes out November 10

BTW Again - Thanksgiving comes out November 17

Movie Trends – For 2024 and far beyond - Many movies from Video Game Franchises and Mattel says many more toy movies are on the way. They are determined to be the new “marvel”

A New Avengers - Movie featuring the original star-studded cast. Even the dead ones

Oppenheimer - Returns to theaters today for a one-week run on IMAX screens.

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck - Are returning to the big screen in the sci-fi comedy flick The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane (link)

Also - My 50 Favorites Over 40+ Years This Week #8 (Link)