3/1/2011
The soul hits of the '70s have a groove to suit your every mood, so long as you have the beat in your feet and smooth lovin' on your mind. The smooch gets serious with "Love Jones" by Brighter Side of …
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2/22/2011
In the floor-filling spirit of "Survivor" - a GRAMMYr-winning seize-the-day anthem from Destiny's Child - 2001 was all about plowing the pop charts; all about tackling the Top 40 crowd with full-steam- …
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2/22/2011
As gruff and gritty as Ja Rule's flow is, the rising star perfected his very own rap/R&B fusion on two straight smashes, Pain Is Love and Rule 3:36. It's easy to hear why he wanted to san …
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2/22/2011
What a wild and wooly year 2005 was, especially in the scrappy, trend-setting world of hip-hop and R&B. Welcome to our wrap-up of how it all went down, headlined by the Bobby Vinton samples ("Lonely") …
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2/22/2011
To give you an idea of the eras that continued to collide in 2005, Snoop Dogg asked Justin Timberlake to duet with the Gap Band's lead singer (Charlie Wilson) on "Signs," a Neptunes production that bob …
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2/22/2011
"I was born with samba, I was raised in samba," sings Dorival Caymmi on "Samba da Minha Tierra." It's the introduction to a set that includes illustrious sambistas like Paulinho da Viola, Beth C …
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2/22/2011
Old and new Hollywood mingle freely within our glistening array of Oscarr songs, so we've got the crisp shoeshine perfectionism of old-time hoofers next to the wildfire street poetry of young-gun Emine …
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2/22/2011
Our Deep Cuts go old-school with gilt-edged contributions from the artist who appears more often in our playlist than any other: the great Bing Crosby. His duet with Jane Wyman, "In the Cool, Cool, Coo …
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2/22/2011
Light shows, fuzz bombs, turn-ons, and love-ins; everything everybody says about the '60s is true - it was one big kandy-kolored, granny-glassed psychedelic party, a pedal-to-the-floorboard VW microbus …
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