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Song of the Day 1/25: Arcade Fire, “Games Without Frontiers”

Posted by By Alby January 25, 2022
I have featured Peter Gabriel's song about international diplomacy before, but it seems apt today in light of all the recent media saber-rattling. Besides, I had forgotten about this cover…
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Song of the Day 1/24: Smith, “Baby It’s You”

Posted by By Alby January 24, 2022
"Baby It's You" was released as a single by first-ballot Hall of Fame groups the Shirelles and the Beatles. But the band who scored the biggest hit with the Burt…
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Song of the Day 1/23: Laura Nyro, “And When I Die”

Posted by By Alby January 23, 2022
Readers following the thread spawned by Wednesday's Song of the Day know that El Somnambulo has no love for the second Blood, Sweat and Tears LP, which spent seven weeks…
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Song of the Day 1/22: Naked Eyes, “Always Something There to Remind Me”

Posted by By Alby January 22, 2022
Burt Bacharach has written hundreds of songs, most from the 1950s through the 1980s. Of those, 73 have made the US Top 40. This one took the longest to get…
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Song of the Day 1/21: Meat Loaf, “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth”

Posted by By Alby January 21, 2022
Michael (nee Marvin) Lee Aday, better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, died yesterday, age 74, just nine months after the death of Jim Steinman, who composed "Bat Out…
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Song of the Day 1/19: Three Dog Night, “Shambala”

Posted by By Alby January 19, 2022
Three Dog Night is a band I appreciate a lot more now than back when they were popular, because when they were popular they were also deeply uncool. Listening to…
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Song of the Day 1/17: Peter, Paul and Mary, “Leaving on a Jet Plane”

Posted by By Alby January 17, 2022
If John Denver wrote this song today he'd have to include something about getting his Covid test before being allowed to board. Peter, Paul and Mary were an oldies act…
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Song of the Day 1/15: Sufjan Stevens, “Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!”

Posted by By Alby January 15, 2022
The irony of Republicans trying to restrict the teaching of history when they're ignorant of it in the first place is lost on Republicans themselves, so they don't recognize when…
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Song of the Day 1/13: The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”

Posted by By Alby January 13, 2022
For a brief time, Veronica "Ronnie" Bennett, who died yesterday at age 78, was the hottest girl-group singer in the world. Thanks to producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment,…
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Song of the Day 1/12: Hall & Oates, “Did It in a Minute”

Posted by By Alby January 12, 2022
Daryl Hall and John Oates reached the height of their Hall of Fame career in 1982, bookending the year with No. 1 singles -- "I Can't Go For That" in…
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Song of the Day 1/10: Momma, “Medicine”

Posted by By Alby January 10, 2022
I'm trespassing on El Somnambulo's territory here, but I heard this on WXPN last week and I've been listening to it frequently ever since. While it's derivative -- what rock…
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Song of the Day 1/7: Jester Hairston, “Amen”

Posted by By Alby January 8, 2022
Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday at age 94, was born in Miami but grew up where his parents lived, Arthur's Town, on Cat Island in the Bahamas, one of that…
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Song of the Day 1/6: The O’Jays, “Back Stabbers”

Posted by By Alby January 6, 2022
This 1972 song put the O'Jays on the charts, and helped Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Sound of Philadelphia depose Motown at the top of the soul/R&B charts. There's a…
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