37-Mary J Blige- Growing Pains (for Jan 9, 2008)
Let’s start 2008 with Billboard’s first number one album of the year, “Growing Pains” from Mary J Blige. This woman has gone through a lot and we’ve followed her life through her music. We could feel her frustrations in songs like, “No More Drama.” For Mary J, [...]

39- Chris Brown “Exclusive”
 
People are always looking for the “next Michael Jackson!” Some say it could be Usher and some say it could be Chris Brown. He’s young, a great dancer, and the ability to take a performance to that “wow” level! Is he the next Michael Jackson? It’s way too early to even get [...]

38-Grammy Nominated  
The 50th Grammy Awards will happen on Feb 10th. It is the most important music award in the world, but actually I am much more interested in the nominees than the winners. It is like the Academy Awards where we are introduced to some excellent nominated movies that we may have never heard [...]

“Same Old Lang Syne” –Dan Fogelberg (1951-2007)Every year at this time we hear so many Christmas songs like I wrote about in my last column. The radio waves and stores are filled with Christmas music. But then there is the period after Christmas, like now. There are few songs that really spring to mind about [...]

April 4-Musical Stereotyping
By Rick O’Shea Li Ke
 Dear Rick, I’m fond of R&B, especially songs sung by black singers. I’m addicted to Babyface’s “Loneliness” and Luther Vandross’s “Any love” and so on. There are so many excellent black singers and what’s more, I read in a magazine that black people are born with a sense of [...]

1-Off the Record  March 7, 2007
By Rick O’Shea 李柯
 
  After 11 years and 4,100 consecutive programs, I passed the new time limit for foreigners at CRI. Saying goodbye to the audience we had built over the years was the most difficult part. We had an unusually strong connection for a radio program! And I had to [...]