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Soul Serenade (At Two): The Delfonics, “I Gave To You”

Soul Serenade (At Two): The Delfonics, “I Gave To You”

Ken Shane May 24, 2012 2

The Delfonics left us with many indelible hits, but it's a more obscure B-side that Ken Shane recalls as he celebrates the second birthday of Soul Serenade

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Jheri Curl Fridays 15: “Living All Alone”

Jheri Curl Fridays 15: “Living All Alone”

Mike Heyliger September 9, 2011 5

Phyllis Hyman's 1986 hit "Living All Alone" is the subject of this week's Jheri Curl Fridays column

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Soul Serenade: The Delfonics, “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

Ken Shane August 26, 2010 6

Working with producer Thom Bell, the Delfonics hit the charts with a string of unforgettable singles, including 1970's "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)."

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CD Review: Human Nature, “Reach Out”

Robert Cass September 1, 2009 11

“In the style of the boy-band vocal bands of the time, Human Nature became Australia’s most successful pop group of the ’90s and beyond,” according to their Allmusic.com biography, “outselling their international contemporaries Backstreet Boys,

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Sugar Water: Seeing Red About Seeing Stars

Robert Cass March 17, 2008 7

I’m a day late with this week’s post, but I’m not going to apologize. Apologies are for suckers. And one of those suckers is Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky. He apologized to the magazine’s

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