“Alright” February 6, 2008
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Somebody involved with Janet Jackson’s 1990 music video Alright had a nice sense of cultural history …
“Some Skunk Funk” January 20, 2008
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The Brecker Brothers …
Ain’t no mountain high enough December 31, 2007
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Tear the roof off the mother November 25, 2007
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[watch this space]
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B. B. King on “Jazz Casual” November 5, 2007
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The earliest known TV appearance of the man considered the greatest blues guitarist of all time.
“After Midnight” October 30, 2007
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J. J. Cale performs his best-known song, accompanied by the guy who made it his best-known song.
Can’t turn them loose October 26, 2007
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Otis Redding (1941-1967), along with Eric Burdon and Chris Farlowe, perform on the British TV show Ready, Steady, Go!, recorded on September 16, 1966 — my thirteenth birthday.
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“Respect” October 18, 2007
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I’ve read different takes on what Otis Redding thought of Aretha Franklin’s cover of his song …
What it is August 23, 2007
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From Soul Train, April 14, 1973, Aretha Franklin performs her own song Rock Steady:
Zombie jamboree August 8, 2007
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Rockapella, consisting (at the time) of Elliott Kerman, Barry Carl, Scott Leonard, Jeff Thacher and Kevin Wright, performs at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara in 2000.
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Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings August 5, 2007
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The Bobs, a group of former singing telegram performers that bill themselves as the world’s only New Wave a capella group, cover Cream.
“I Wish” January 4, 2007
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Thanks to George Miller and the makers of Happy Feet, a new generation will learn that Will Smith’s theme to The Wild Wild West was not original music.
Ruth Brown, 1928-2006 November 27, 2006
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Singer Ruth Brown, a founder of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, died on November 17.
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