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Song for the Soundtrack of Your Date (No Date) Tonight
Song for the Soundtrack of Your Date Tonight is dedicated to the memory of a soul legend, Ms. Etta James. The queen of date songs has died.
Read More »The Friday Linkfest: 1/28/11
The Web moves fast. Here are some of our favorite links from the week that was: What do all the numbers on your credit card mean? [Gizmodo] 10-year-old girl becomes youngest to discover supernova
Read More »Film Review: “Still Bill”
Bill Withers released his last album in 1985. After a relatively brief but hit-filled career, he walked away. Frustrated by the efforts of the so-called “blaxperts” at Columbia Records to package him into something
Read More »CD Review: George Benson, “Songs and Stories”
Four years ago GRP/Verve released Best of George Benson Live, recorded at a concert the veteran jazz guitarist and singer gave in Belfast, Ireland, in 2000. The set drew mainly from the 1976-’81 period
Read More »Bootleg City: Top 17 Songs of the ’90s
For this special edition of Bootleg City, I’m spotlighting the top 17 songs of the ’90s, a decade we can all officially start nostalgicizing on January 1, 2010. Until then we’re in limbo, if
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 7/24/09
The more things change… Adam Again – Ain’t No Sunshine from Ten Songs by Adam Again (1988) Deliverance – Beauty And The Beast from Camelot in Smithereens (1995) Jacob’s Trouble – Tell Me What
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 57
It's week 57 of Bottom Feeders, and Dave Steed is still going strong. He's reached the letter M in his journey through the ass end of Billboard's Hot 100 of the '80s, which can
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… Adam Again
In an ongoing series, Dw. Dunphy takes an occasional look back at Christian contemporary music (CCM) of the past and makes the case for a new audience to rediscover the best of it as
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 4/11/87
Hi, everybody! This week’s CHART ATTACK! takes us back a whopping 22 years, and wow, do I feel old, considering I remember hearing just about every single one of these songs on the radio
Read More »Songs for the Dumped: Volume Five
We’ve been having a lot of fun here at Songs for the Dumped, but let us not forget that these are stories of heartache, woe, ache and heartwoe, and that most of this good-hearted
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