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4/23/2010
The Hardest Working Man in Show Business had the industry's busiest backing band, and when they got a turn under the spotlight, they knew - 'cause James had schooled them - how to shine. Origina …
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4/23/2010
From Dallas to Paris, from the legendary 1962 Apollo performance to the triumphant return to that stage more than 30 years later, nobody - nobody - ever commanded the spotlight like James Brown …
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4/23/2010
Long before funk was so much as a gleam in J.B.'s horn section, these masters of soul, jazz, gospel, blues, doo-wop, and pop all shaped James Brown while he was still green. Jump-blues legend Louis Jor …
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4/23/2010
As you can see from the playlist below, it's no exaggeration to say that the very foundation of the hip-hop nation was built from the raw materials - in the form of samples - provided by James Brown an …
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4/22/2010
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My Groove
4/20/2010
Sure, the Beatles were right: love is all you need. But what kind of love would be complete without these all-time classic cuts from the Great American Songbook. Every note is steeped in romance for a …
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Artist Essentials
4/20/2010
The perfectly constructed power ballad is David Foster's signature, and he even brings out wild man Alice Cooper's inner romantic (albeit with a lunatic twist) on 1978's "How You Gonna See Me Now," whi …
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4/20/2010
If Julio Iglesias wants to try his hand with a little Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), or CTline Dion would like to put her own mark on a familiar power ballad (Eric Carmen's "All by Myself"), David Foster is on …
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My Groove
4/20/2010
The style, the sophistication, the accent - ah, nobody does it quite like the French, whose influence on popular music extends from homegrown icons +dith Piaf and Yves Montand to "outsiders" who have t …
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