You can't develop your ears to pick hits.
His first, "Solid Gold," which originally starred the pop singer Dionne Warwick, offered a countdown of the Top 10 songs of the week, several pick hits and the occasional oldie.
We try to pick hits everyone wants to hear, deep cuts for the fans, and the few we like here.
Dante Bichette Jr., the Yankees' top 2011 draft pick, hit two on the first two pitches he saw.
4 HOMERS IN MINORS Michael Aubrey, a 2003 first-round pick, hit four home runs for the Washington Nationals' Class AAA team, the Syracuse Chiefs, in an 11-0 win over the Durham Bulls.
From Studio Three, over radios scattered through the WABC offices, everyone could now hear the current "Pick Hit of the Week" — "The 'In' Crowd," by Dobie Gray, rather cheerfully truculent in tone: I'm In with the In crowd.
As "Pick Hit of the Week," they had selected a folksy, danceable re-release of an old weeper click about nuclear fallout — "What Have They Done to the Rain?," by the Searchers.
In various altercations, Williams stabbed a man in the neck with an ice pick, hit another with a soup bone, and, dressed in a Klan member's hood, sneaked up on a white farmer, hit him with a stick, and ran off into the woods.
Another vote in favor of the merger: the potential benefit of pairing Sony's Lack, a hands-on, budget-conscious manager, with BMG's Clive Davis Clive Davis, a legendary impresario respected for his ability to pick hit songs and develop promising artists.
Instead, Netflix will try to cherry pick hit shows from Viacom.
But my knack for picking hits is woeful.
