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Fun TV show but his singing career included one of the worst ballads of the 1970s. The key change in the middle of "Don't Give Up On Us Baby" is so horribly mastered it sounded like someone accidentally stretched the audio tape. As soon as I mentioned his name to my wife, she started singing...

Anita Pointer made it under the wire on the last day of 2022, so I'll start a new thread here. Hat tip to Jake from State Farm for the idea. RIP, Anita. Just a string of memorable, danceable hits. Every time "Neutron Dance" came on the radio, I'd have to stop typing in the newsroom. Her...

There's no Motown sound without Holland-Dozier-Holland. RIP. Lamont Dozier, Motown songwriter behind 'Baby Love' and other hits, dies at 81 (msn.com)

Just realized some names that deserve notice but not separate RIP threads: Jan. 13: Five Satins lead singer Fred Parris. Hit the charts with "In the Still of the Night" in 1956 and "I'll Be Seeing You" in 1959. Jan. 11: Rosa Lee Hawkins of the Dixie Cups. Original member scored a No. 1 with...

Since there's been so much talk on the Helen Reddy thread about this, let me start a (hopefully) continuing look back at the charts, starting with 50 years ago today -- Oct. 3, 1970 -- plus hopefully a YouTube lost hit of the week. TW LW TITLE –•– Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak To Date) 1...

Today already sucks, and it ain’t even noon yet. Got a lot of the credit for the foundation of reggae, yet probably still didn’t get enough of the credit compared to Marley. Toots Hibbert, one of the fathers of reggae music, whose vocals imbued the genre’s sound with an exhortatory power drawn...