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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 1

Popdose Staff July 6, 2011 11

Popdose breaks down the first five songs from Time-Life Music's AM Gold: 1962 compilation album, and takes time to enjoy a classic 1980s Dom DeLuise commercial

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Soul Serenade: Ben E. King, “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)”

Ken Shane July 15, 2010 3

Everyone knows Ben E. King. He’s the guy who co-wrote and sang the immortal “Stand By Me,” which was a Top Ten hit in 1961, and again in 1987. True enough, but he is

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Cratedigger: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Deja Vu”

Ken Shane June 26, 2010 2

In what many people would have called an unlikely move, Crosby, Stills & Nash invited Neil Young join them in 1969. Their first album together took them to the top of the world

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The Thirteenth Day of Mellowmas: Mellowmas with Babyface

Jeff Giles and Jason Hare December 13, 2009 10

Phil Collins jokes! Staten Island insults! Luke Perry in blackface! It's the thirteenth day of Mellowmas!

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Bootleg City: Nilsson

Robert Cass April 3, 2009 4

One of my favorite pebbles of pop-culture minutiae is that Curtis Armstrong, the actor who played Herbert Viola on Moonlighting in the late ’80s and “Booger” in four Revenge of the Nerds movies, knows

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