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By Stacey Lynn May 6, 2021 Today’s song won the Oscar for Best Original Song in the film “The Woman in Red”, beating out "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)," "Footloose," "Lets Hear It For The Boy" and "Ghostbusters." All five nominees were #1 hits on the Hot 100, the only time that has happened. In October 1985, two songwriters, one of whom was a childhood friend of today’s singer, filed a lawsuit claiming they wrote a song called "Hello Its Me/I Just Called to Say" in Septemb...

By Stacey Lynn Apr 29, 2021 Hey, welcome to our little game, I Know That Song! Each morning at 7:10 on K103 we give you some fun facts you may not know about some of the biggest songs we play. Todays song is one of the biggest songs EVER. Today’s Grammy-winning hit love song qualified for Diamond status in 2017 when it achieved sales and streams exceeding 10 million, becoming just the 15th song ever to surpass that mark since the certification was created 20 years ago. In October 2015, the s...

By Stacey Lynn Apr 14, 2021 This plays in the opening scene of the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, where we meet the main characters in their natural habitat: the Ridgemont Mall. The song doesnt appear on the soundtrack but got a lot of attention from the film. This all female rock band wrote all their own songs, and along with the Bangles and The Dixie Chicks, are one of the most successful all-girl bands to do so. They were signed to IRS Records by Miles Copeland, who managed The Po...

Should I Have Spoken Up? A reader wonders what she could have done to stop some troubling behavior she saw at a vaccine site. April 8, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET While waiting in a long line to get my Covid-19 vaccination, I noticed two boisterous white men ahead of me. At first I chalked up their noise to excitement. But as I waited, I realized they were harassing an older Black woman who was in line in front of them. They were crowding her and telling her to move up, even though she was keeping an ap...

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By Stacey Lynn Mar 1, 2021 Tell Alexa to wake you up with K103 on iHeart radio so you can join the fun each morning when we do I Know That Song! at 7:10am. We give you a bunch of fun, lesser-known tidbits on the songs you know and love. Todays song was a top 5 SMASH from 2000...With New Kids On The Block off the radar since 1991, many wondered if the boy band genre was over, but both this band and Backstreet Boys made inroads, and when BSB issued their album Millennium in 1999, it started th...

By Stacey Lynn Feb 24, 2021 Today’s song from 1983 was given to the singer by her producer JellyBean Benitez when she was looking for a hit for her debut album. It ended up becoming her first mainstream hit single in the US, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. She was only 25 at the time and knew how to rock a mean cowbell, which she was listed for playing in the album’s liner notes. It is a classic party anthem that became her first mainstream hit But the song almost didn’t ...

16.02.2021, 13:21 Photo: Nasha Niva Former detective of the criminal investigation department of the Mozyr District Department of Internal Affairs, Uladzimir Zhyhar, who resigned from the police after the 2020 presidential elections and served an administrative arrest in the Zhodzina prison, said that Lukashenka had not yet begun a full-scale purge of the Interior Ministry apparatus, BYPOL reported. According to Uladzimir Zhyhar, who has joined the By_Pol initiative, there are still those in ...

By Stacey Lynn Jan 29, 2021 If youre new to our show, welcome! And please join us weekday mornings around 7:10 for "I Know That Song!" Todays song is about feeling joyous, but knowing that the joy is going to end someday. Today’s singer wrote it after he bought a house near a barley field. The sunsets and the colors of the field were an inspiration for the lyrics.  He says the major theme in this is commitment. It is about a man who has broken promises before, but is determined to make this...

That. >> because she got up like she had been somehow maligned by you. >> of course. >> and in fact you were doing your job. and then the next morning shes the campaign manager. >> yeah. >> and i thought wow, that was an interesting -- >> people at home dont know that, though. well, they do now. >> they do now because i was on here as your confessor and you were able to -- >> im just telling the truth. the truth is the truth. >> more of that, right? because as they said, i dont know if you knew ...