Story by: Gail Nobles Cover Illus. by Gail Nobles Keyboardist: Gai Nobles Hello, I’m Gail Nobles. Welcome to EAGLE HARP. I got to tell you something. Have you ever looked for a song and couldn’t find ? For several years, I have been searching for a song titled "Superwoman," which I remember hearing on the radio between 1979 and 1980. I asked a DJ if he recognized it, but nobody I spoke to seemed familiar with it. I even tried singing a few lines, but still, no one could place the tune. I was con...
Dec 01, 2025•4 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles First beat: Remixlive Pack Usage: Free Photo : Umusic - UmusicUsage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Today topic: Toni Braxton. I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Eagle Harp. Toni Michele Braxton, this ain't just your average singer, see? We're talkin' about a woman who's climbed the ladder, rung every bell, and snagged more awards than you can shake a stick at! Seven Grammys? NINE Billboard Music Awards? Started out with her sisters, The Braxtons, a swee...
May 03, 2025•3 min
Keyboardist: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: Gage Skidmore Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 Hello, I’m Gail Nobles and you’re listening to Eagle Harp. Today’s topic is Sugarhill gang the lover in you. Alright, Let's talk about that classic jam from the Sugarhill Gang called "The Lover in You." This tune comes from their album "Rappin Down Town," which dropped in 1983. Now, this song has a smooth vibe that’s all about love and romance. The catchy hook goes, “This is for the lover in you, th...
Jan 29, 2025•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Piano: Gail Nobles Background music: Pixabay.com Photo: Raph_PH - GenesisO2260322 (32 of 42) Usage: Wikipedia CC BY 2.0 Today we're turning up the volume on a band that's all about the magic of the moment. I'm talking about none other than the legendary Genesis. You might know them best by their hit That's All. It is a group composition and appears as the second track on the 1983 album Genesis. It was the album’s second single after Mama. The sngle reach number six in early...
Sep 02, 2024•3 min
Music intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: John Mathew Smith Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 T.S. Monk. (Thelonious Sphere Monk the third) is a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is the sun of Jazz pianist Thelonias Monk. By the dawning of the 1980s, he had formed his eponymous band, which featured him on drums and occasional lead vocals. The group's début album, 1980's House of Music, featured several hits that placed on the Billboard R&B chart, including "Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)", ...
Jul 27, 2024•2 min
Intro music and vocals: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: (C) John Mathew Smith Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 Some people say Phyllis Hyman died not knowing how much she was loved. It is said she fought hard to overcome her demons. I don't think Phyllis Hyman was just fighting her demons if she had any demons at all. I think she was fighting demons coming from elsewhere. When the music business is hard, sometimes you can't be yourself. You can't show the world the self you want the world ...
Apr 28, 2024•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Intro by: Gail Nobles The hardest working man James Brown. His songs made hits and now they are beyond hits. His songs are still being played. There is music in his name as I speak it. I can still sense the sound of him. It’s hard to say that his songs are oldies because everybody keeps on listening. They keep on listening to that sound of James Brown. I can still hear the cheering crowd. There are still people that imitate the man behind the microphone stand. There is stil...
Jan 18, 2024•2 min
Photo: www.flickr.com/people/pinguino/ - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinguino/8085337551/ Usage: Wikipedia CC BY 2.0 Story by: Gail Nobles James Ingram - I heard James Ingram say that he came up in the word of God and in gospel music. He said he was a musician and started playing around 12 years old. James and Michael McDonald wrote the song Yah Mo B There. I heard James say that a lot of people to this day didn't know that they were talking about God. Rod Temperton and producer Quincy Jones a...
Nov 29, 2023•2 min
Music intro: By Gail Nobles This Podcast features music created using Drum Pad Machine. Available on the App Store, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drum-pad-machine-beat-maker/id1057968965. Today's topic is the Isley Brothers. I'm Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Eagle Harp. Celebrity and music news. I'm going to talk to you today about a family musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio that began as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley Junior, Rudolph Isley, and Ronald Isley...
Aug 30, 2023•6 min
Music: Passion HiFi Usage: Free https://soundcloud.com/thepassionhifi Giant Wings Flapping: Pixabay.com https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/flap/ Usage: Free Photo: Wikipedia Public Domain Voice Actor: Gail Nobles Hello! I’m Gail Nobles. I’m going to take you into Retro News. Today’s topic: Redd Foxx. A stand up comedian & actor who left us at age 68. Voice actor: I’m 65! You remember Comedian Red Foxx who played a crabby junk man on the 1970’s television series “Sanford and Son”. He di...
Mar 31, 2023•4 min
Hello! I’m Gail Nobles & I want to talk to you today about how this podcast, “Eagle Harp”, got its name. The podcast name has the name Eagle Harp because it’s a podcast about music. But there’s a bird called the Harpy Eagle. It is a very large eagle. A bird that is as tall as a person. When I first saw the Harpy Eagle in pictures, I had to look very closely to see if the bird was really real. Well, the bird is real and also beautiful. I’ve never seen a bird like it in all my life. The claw a...
Mar 20, 2023•2 min
Music intro: by Gail Nobles All vocals by: Gail Nobles Song: I Just Want To Be Your Everything Song by: Andy Gibb I Just Want To Be Your EVerything is a song recorded by Andy Gibb released in 1977. It reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, starting on the week ending 30 July 1977, and again for the week ending 17 September 1977. It was Gibb's first single released in the United Kingdom and United States . “I Just Want to Be Your Everything" was written by Barry Gibb in Bermud...
Mar 14, 2023•3 min
Music: Samplefocus.com Usage: standard license Hi! I’m Gail Nobles & you’re listening to Eagle Harp. Today’s topic is Sugar Hill Records. The Hip Hop Label founded in 1979 by Sylvia Robinson. The label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first top 40 hip hop single. The Sequence was the first female hip-hop trio signed to the Sugar Hill Records label in the late 1970s and Early 1980s. I remember Cheryl The Pearl, Blondie, & Angie B. And ...
Dec 06, 2022•2 min
Song: Jam Song by: Michael Jackson Photo credit: Luiz Fernando Reis Usage: CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/9N7gaH Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles Music by: Gail Nobles Jam is a single by singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. The song is the fourth single from his 1991 album Dangerous, where it is the opening track. It also appears as the second track on his 2009 This Is It compilation album. "Jam" is a new jack swing song whose bridge features a rap verse performed by Heavy D. The music video of the song f...
Nov 16, 2022•2 min
Song: Ready or Not Song by: The Jackson Five Music by: samplefocus.com https://samplefocus.com/samples/cello-mixed-melody-drama-terror Usage: Standard license Keyboardist: Gail Nobles Piano and Hard Rock Guitar Vocals: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Brownpatricks - Own work Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Today’s topic: The Jackson Five. Ready or Not Hear I Come ( Can’t Hide From Love). It’s one of The Jackson 5 songs in the album, Third Album. It’s a cover of one of the songs from Delfonics. It was wr...
Oct 21, 2022•2 min
Music: No Limit Jean Terrell https://samplefocus.com/samples/no-limit-jean-terrell-loop-soul-chop Usage: Samplefocus.com License: Standard License R&B and Jazz singer Jean Terrell. She replaced Diana Ross as the lead singer of The Supremes in Jan. 1970. She is the sister of the former WBA heavyweight boxing champion Ernie Terrell, who fought Muhammad Ali. Jean was guided by her family to sing, and it was in the late 1960s that she and her brother formed a group called Ernie Terrell and the H...
Oct 17, 2022•2 min
All voices by: Gail Nobles Music: deep swirl sound - Samplefocus.com Keyboardist: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Daniel Åhs Karlsson - Own work Usage: CC BY 3.0 Voice 1: Hello! Voice 2: Hello! Voice 1: Todays topic Voice 2: The Weather Girls Martha Wash and Izora Armstead. They were known as the Weather Girls singing, Its Raining Men. Formed in 1976 in San Francisco California. The Weather Girls began their musical career as Two Tons O’ Fun, the female backup duo for disco singer Sylvester. After yea...
Oct 13, 2022•2 min
Music by: Samplefocus.com I remember when Donna Summer was the hottest performer. She said, “ Mahalia Jackson is the. Person that I really molded myself behind as a child.” Yes, Donna was a great singer, and I wish I could have seen her in more movies. One of the movies that she starred in was “Thank God It’s Friday” in 1978. It was an American musical disco comedy film directed by Robert Kline and produced by Motown Productions and Casablanca Filmworks for Columbia Pictures. Donna Summer perfor...
Oct 13, 2022•2 min
