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Number 1 With A Bullet: Eddie Kendricks’ “Keep On Truckin’”
The highest debuting single of the week of August 25, 1973, “Keep On Truckin’” became a #1 hit for one-time member of the Temptations, Eddie Kendricks. “I knew it was a hit because of the title,”
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The Record Reviewer Is Dead, Part 1
Once upon a time, way back in the 1960s, record reviewers served a very specific purpose: they were guides, commissioned to serve the record-buying public with information on where to best spend their hard-earned
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National 82-Year Old Kool Aid Month
As with July so goes August: another sizzling month chock full of special days to make you aware of special causes and make you buy special things. Though August is Get Ready for Kindergarten
Read More »Memories Of Watkins Glen
I was born in a small town called Elmira, NY. At the time I was growing up, it had about 30,000 inhabitants, generally happy people who built fire trucks at the American LaFrance factory,
Read More »Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Not Young, Still Strong
It’s an oft-told and thoroughly-analyzed story: Crosby came from the Byrds, Stills from Buffalo Springfield, Nash from the Hollies. They were a super group before they sang a note; David Geffen made sure of
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