Tuesday, July 5, 2022

2022 album of the year

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  Tourist – Inside Out Amazon Music Apple Music Bandcamp Spotify The year is only half over, but I'm calling it now.  PS: Those aren...
Friday, January 28, 2022

10 old songs that became new hits

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We tend to think of current hits as   "the music of today," but sometimes today's hits are the music of yesterday. Today on th...
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Sunday, January 16, 2022

Download Jeopardy-style game show theme music for free

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Here's a piece of copyright- and royalty-free music I recorded that you can use if you are looking for something similar to the Jeopardy...
Friday, November 12, 2021

First appearance of "My Favorite Things" on a Christmas album? It wasn't Jack Jones

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  Jack Jones is often credited as the first artist to include the song "My Favorite Things" on a Christmas album, but Jones was...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Clyde Otis, The Diamonds' "The Stroll," and the mysterious Nancy Lee (1957)

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What if you wrote a #1 hit all by yourself but a music industry bigwig put his teen daughter's name on the song as your co-writer? And t...
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Thursday, October 14, 2021

Joe Dowell's rarest album: BGA Benefit Concert 2002

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  Joe Dowell , who scored a #1 US pop hit with " Wooden Heart " in 1961, released a number of obscure records after being dropped ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Halloween novelty hit "Monster Mash" becomes a cereal

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  Bobby "Boris" Pickett 's 1962 chart-topper "The Monster Mash" is the daddy of all Halloween novelty records, and b...