Gonna Be You is a song written by legendary songwriter Dianne Warren for the sports comedy movie 80 For Brady. Dolly Parton has teamed up with fellow megastars Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Belinda Carlisle and Blondie’s Debbie Harry for the feel-good song about deep friendship. The movie is based on the true story of a group of friends who take a trip to the Super Bowl in 2017 to see their hero, NFL quarterback Tom Brady, play.
80 For Brady hits theaters in the USA today. Gonna be you, by Dolly and her friends, is new this week on RadiJohan.
“DMA’S” are an Australian Rock band formed in Sydney in 2012. They gained popularity in 2014 with their debut single “Delete” and for their self-titled EP. To date they’ve released three albums with the most recent, 2020’s The Glow, charting at number 4 in the UK, number 2 in Australia and topping the album chart in Scotland.
DMA’S next album, How Many Dreams?, is to be released on 31 March 2023. Their new single, Fading like a Picture, is new this week on RadiJohan.
“Krezip” is a Dutch band from “Tilburg” formed in 1997. They broke through, playing all original songs, at the nationally televised Pinkpop festival in 2000. The band has since had several successful albums and numerous hit singles in the Netherlands, as well as live success, playing at festivals in Belgium and Germany. In 2008 Krezip made headlines when they announced they would be breaking up in 2009. At that point, even though they had been active for 12 years, the band members’ average age was only 27.
On 28 January 2019, news broke that “Krezip” would return to the stage for Pinkpop 2019. That news was followed by a new single the following day and, later that year, a new album.
The band were planning to do only one reunion album accompanied by a short tour, however, the pandemic threw a spanner in the works. While Krezip waited to get back on stage, ideas for new music were born. Accordingly Krezip have announced another new album, called Any Day Now, is due to be released on 7 April 2023. Their brand new single, In The Water, is new this week on RadiJohan.
“The Shirts” were formed in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York. The group made their record debut in 1976 with three songs on a compilation album, Live at CBGB. Their career really took off after singer “Annie Golden” played a role in the successful musical Hair. Their first album, The Shirts, was released in 1978 and included the single, Tell Me Your Plans. The song became a big hit, but only in the Netherlands, where it reached number 4 in the Top 40, and Belgium, reaching number 6.
The band went on to tour Europe opening for Peter Gabriel, at his request.
“Billy Swan” is an American country singer-songwriter who learned drums, piano and guitar and began writing songs as a child. He is best known for his 1974 single, I Can Help. The story goes that Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge had bought Billy Swan a small “RMI” organ as a wedding present. Billy was fiddling around with it when the chorus of I Can Help “appeared.” Twenty minutes later he had written the lyrics.
In the USA I Can Help topped the “US Billboard Hot 100” as well as reaching number 1 on the Country chart. The song was a hit throughout most of Europe and also reached number 1 in Australia and New Zealand.
I Can Help is generally recognized as being Billy Swan’s only major hit single release. However, he continued to have success as a songwriter for other artists and as a session musician.
Austrian symphonic metal band “Visions of Atlantis” have released another single from their excellent 2022 album Pirates. Vocalist Clémentine Delauneystates:
”We are so excited to be able to release a video for ”Clocks” as we love this song and we noticed that it quickly became one of our fans’ favorites as well! We could tell from the crowd’s response every time we started to play this song live last year! So here is a fun portrait of what enjoying life as a pirate can be about, remembering the clock is ticking… Let’s all make a golden play out of 2023!”
Clocks by Visions of Atlantis is new this week on RadiJohan.
Bruce Foxton is an English singer, songwriter and musician whose career in music spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the 1970’s as bassist and backing vocalist of “The Jam.” Between 1977 and 1982 The Jam released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom including four number one hits.
Russell Hastings is a British guitarist and vocalist who teamed up with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler (both former members of The Jam) and together formed “From The Jam” in 2007 to keep performing The Jam’s songs.
Foxton and Hastings have recorded three albums of original material together: 2012’s Back in the Room, 2016’s Smash the Clock and their new album, The Butterfly Effect.
Their new single, She Said, is new this week on RadiJohan.
Pilot of the Airwaves is a song by English singer-songwriter “Charlie Dore.” It was released in as a single in 1979 from her album Where to Now. This ode to an unnamed DJ became a big hit reaching number 13 on the US Billboard chart in 1980. The song also charted in Australia, New Zealand and Canada and, even though it received heavy airplay in the UK, it didn’t do nearly as well there.
This song is another example of a classic hit that is largely ignored by commercial radio today but still gets played on RadiJohan.