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3/29/2011
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Artist Essentials
3/29/2011
From his hepcat scat to his super-slick threads, Cab Calloway was the unchallenged king of cool, and he had the tracks to back it up. On "Jiveformation, Please," he's a professor of hip, holding a mast …
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3/29/2011
Cab Calloway was the living, breathing, swinging essence of everything the Harlem Renaissance represented. A jazzman who embraced the role of entertainer, he was the coolest, classiest cat ever to prow …
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Genres & History
3/28/2011
Rock en Espa±ol takes the finest of British and American pop-rock and melds it with the best of traditional music for a unique sound that knows no social or language boundaries. These 25 pioneering cut …
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Artist Essentials
3/28/2011
It was the dreamier, softer tunes such as "Longer" and "Same Old Lang Syne" that cemented Dan Fogelberg's reputation and chart success, but a California-style soft rocker called "Part of the Plan," fro …
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Artist Essentials
3/28/2011
The diversity of songwriters such as Traffic, Laura Nyro, and Billie Holiday gives some indication as to the breadth of Blood, Sweat & Tears' influences, and the group's ability to imprint such materia …
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Artist Essentials
3/28/2011
From the do-right pleading of Dionne Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over" to the laid-back vibe of B.J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," Burt Bacharach writes songs that are as warm as a summer d …
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Artist Essentials
3/28/2011
Dean Martin was the personification of swing - he lived the way his comrade-in-arms Sinatra sang. That easy, slightly scotch-scented air emanates from the fun-loving medley "Drink to Me Only With Thine …
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Artist Essentials
3/28/2011
Dean Martin was hip enough to hang with Sinatra. He was enough of a joker to hold his own alongside Jerry Lewis. And he overflowed with enough natural charm to master the movie, music, and TV biz witho …
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