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3/31/2009
Sure, there were the groups who took their lyrics seriously - Reunion's tongue-twister roll call "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)," dreamboat Bobby Sherman's philosophical treatise "Easy Come, …
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3/31/2009
The Dirty '30s gave the world widespread depression, but the pain was eased by the escapist crooning of Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, the feel-good big-band sounds of Duke Ellington - "It Don't Mean a  …
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2/10/2009
Just about everybody who knows anything about music - or who's seen either of the recent movies about its history - knows Chess Records as Chicago's home base for the blues. Its roster - featuri …
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2/10/2009
In our Deep Cuts, we've got some doo-wop, some gonna-whup, and one whopper of a hit. Not until Marilyn Monroe breathily sighed best wishes to President Kennedy did anyone even come close to out- …
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1/27/2009
Chess Records' four-alarm blaze of blues, rock 'n' roll, and R&B has left its sizzling stamp on the world. Cuts like Muddy Waters' "I've Got My Mojo Working" and Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" launche …
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1/27/2009
With a world-beating pedigree in blues and rock 'n' roll, Chess couldn't help but lead a hard charge in R&B too. On the vocal groups' side of the street corner, the Moonglows made like the Moses …
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1/1/2009
Next stop: Christian rock/pop paradise, where songs of faith don't just sit there politely, waiting for an invitation to enter the room - they come crashing through window, sending shards of heavy meta …
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1/1/2009
Just how many ways can praise fit inside a song? Try counting the snowflakes on a White Christmas Eve and you'll start to get the picture. One minute, you've got former DC Talk singer tobyMac trading v …
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12/30/2008
Bass music loosens the inhibitions and the waistbands. The woofers pound out a rhythmic pattern that encourages dancers to reach climactic levels of release. Maybe that's why there are so many commands …