Tonight’s featured artist started writing songs and playing coffee houses while still in high school in the Baltimore area. At the age of 17 his mother submitted a tape of one of his original songs to the talent contest of the big local Top 40 radio station WCAO, in which he took first prize and won three things that would change his life: a typewriter, a stack of records, and a Vox electric guitar. Who was our inspired youth?

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That would be Greg Kihn, of the Greg Kihn Band started in 1976   Their most successful singles include " The Breakup Song ( they Don’t Write ‘Em)”  making it to #15 on the charts and  " Jeopardy"  with reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

Tonight's song From the 1981 album, Rockhinroll. Performed live, The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)

 

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