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The #1 Albums: “Supremes A’ Go Go”

The #1 Albums: “Supremes A’ Go Go”

J.A. Bartlett May 24, 2012 0

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

World’s Worst Songs: “The Legend of Wooley Swamp” by the Charlie Daniels Band

J.A. Bartlett May 22, 2012 7

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”

The #1 Albums: The Beatles’ “Yesterday and Today” and “Revolver”

J.A. Bartlett May 17, 2012 0

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

World’s Worst Songs: “Good Girl” by Carrie Underwood

J.A. Bartlett May 15, 2012 2

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 #1 Albums: Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night”

J.A. Bartlett May 10, 2012 4

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”

World’s Worst Songs: Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walls”

J.A. Bartlett May 8, 2012 3

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 #1 Albums: The Mamas and the Papas’ “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears”

J.A. Bartlett May 3, 2012 0

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

World’s Worst Songs: “Octopus’s Garden” and “I Want You” by the Beatles

J.A. Bartlett May 1, 2012 14

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

The #1 Albums: “Ballads of the Green Berets” by SSgt. Barry Sadler

J.A. Bartlett April 26, 2012 1

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”

World’s Worst Songs: “You Light Up My Life”

J.A. Bartlett April 24, 2012 12

This was too easy. We're ashamed of ourselves

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