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The #1 Albums: “Supremes A’ Go Go”
The list of great Motown albums doesn’t start to fill in until 1971 or so, when Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder used their new creative freedom to make fully realized wholes. For Motown’s first
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World’s Worst Songs: “The Legend of Wooley Swamp” by the Charlie Daniels Band
There's something bad happening in Booger Woods, and it's this song
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The #1 Albums: The Beatles’ “Yesterday and Today” and “Revolver”
One of the many fascinating subtexts in the current season of Mad Men involves the seismic shift in youth culture that began in 1966, the year in which the season is set, and the
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World’s Worst Songs: “Good Girl” by Carrie Underwood
After Carrie Underwood won American Idol in 2005, she wanted to be marketed as a country singer, and she has been fabulously successful: 11 #1 country singles and three more that peaked at #2,
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The #1 Albums: Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night”
The Chairman of the Board is not finished, by a long shot
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World’s Worst Songs: Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walls”
Somebody hose down the singer, and her producer too while you're at it
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The #1 Albums: The Mamas and the Papas’ “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears”
The album that contains some of the most magnificent music to come out of the 1960s, including "California Dreamin'" and "Monday Monday."
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World’s Worst Songs: “Octopus’s Garden” and “I Want You” by the Beatles
When I'm playing Abbey Road, I almost always pass them by
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The #1 Albums: “Ballads of the Green Berets” by SSgt. Barry Sadler
Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler had been wounded in Vietnam while serving with the Green Berets, an elite special-forces unit. While recovering, he was filmed by a TV crew singing a song he had written
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World’s Worst Songs: “You Light Up My Life”
This was too easy. We're ashamed of ourselves
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