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5 Things You Might Not Know About Tori Amos (Article)
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Since it’s her birthday, we thought we’d favor you with five things that you might not know about the woman who’s given you “Silent All These Years,” “Cornflake Girl,” and so many other alternative radio hits over the course of her career. If you’re a diehard Tori fan, then you may know some of these things already, but we’re guessing you won’t know ‘em all…or at least that’s our hope, anyway! She was the youngest student ever admitted to the preparatory division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Amos was five and a half years old when she auditioned and was granted a full scholarship to
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Deep Dive: Teddy Pendergrass, TRULY BLESSED (Article)
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
During the course of his career as a solo artist, Teddy Pendergrass released three studio albums that featured #1 R&B hit singles. This was the third. Produced variously by Craig Burbidge, Derek Nakamoto, Terry Price, and Pendergrass himself, TRULY BLESSED was Pendergrass’s 11 th studio album, and it was his first since 1988’s JOY, the title track of which had brought him his second #1 hit. (Since you’re probably wondering at this point, his first #1 hit was “Close The Door,” and it appeared on his second studio album, 1978’s LIFE IS A SONG WORTH SINGING.) This time around, it was a song
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This Day in 1995: Natalie Merchant Live Chats (Article)
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
22 years ago today, Natalie Merchant became the first guest in a series of live chats on Elektra Records’ website. While we realize this seems pretty insignificant in a world where anyone with even a modicum of fame can do a Reddit AMA if they’re of a mind to do so, you have to put this in perspective: at the time, this sort of thing was virtually unheard of. For proof, just check out the below article, which appeared in Billboard in advance of the chat: “Elektra Records is adding a live-chat feature to its recently launched World Wide Web arena and will inaugurate the section with a ‘live’
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Happy Birthday: Dean DeLeo (Article)
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Today we celebrate the birthday of Dean DeLeo, guitarist and songwriter for Stone Temple Pilots. In honor of this occasion, we’ve put together a list of five non-STP projects which have featured DeLeo in one capacity or another. (Don’t worry, though: we’ve offered up Stone Temple Pilots’ THANK YOU for your listening enjoyment, too.) Talk Show, “Hello Hello” – In 1997, when Scott Weiland was…well, to be polite, let’s just say he was not entirely available and leave it at that, but in his absence, Dean DeLeo, his brother Robert, and Eric Kretz joined forces with Dave Coutts, formerly of Ten Inch
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This Day in 1979: The Cars in Central Park (Article)
Thursday, August 24, 2017
38 years ago today, The Cars proved that they were Peppers, too, performing a concert in New York's Central Park as part of a now-defunct event known as the Dr. Pepper Festival. Although the Dr. Pepper Festival hasn't gone down in history as one of the all-time great music festivals, that's because it wasn't like, say, the Monterey Pop Festival or Woodstock or something like that. These concerts took place over the course of the summer during the late '70s and early '80s. That said, they did feature a ton of great musicians during their run, including Ian Hunter, Bonnie Raitt, Laura Nyro
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Single Stories: America, “Tin Man” (Article)
Thursday, August 24, 2017
1974 was a “Tin Man” summer for America. Not for the country – although they seemed to like it well enough, based on its chart placing – but for the band. Written by Dewey Bunnell, “Tin Man” appeared on America’s fourth album, HOLIDAY, which was released in June 1974. Like the album as a whole, the song was produced by George Martin, who also tinkled the ivories on the track, and it was about the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz…except when it wasn’t. As Bunnell told Wesley Hyatt in an interview for The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits, “It’s sort of poetic license.” In An American
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This Day in 1993: The Grateful Dead Sing The National Anthem at the Giants’ Opener (Article)
Thursday, April 12, 2018
25 years ago today, The Grateful Dead helped the San Francisco Giants kick off their 1993 season by performing “The Star Spangled Banner” at Candlestick Park. When author Linda Kelly released the 20th anniversary edition of her classic tome Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead, in 2015, one of the stories included therein came courtesy of a man who knew the Dead about as well as anyone who wasn’t actually a member of the band: Dennis McNally, their longtime publicist. "Among my favorite moments ever with Jerry Garcia was the day the Grateful Dead
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Single Stories: “Dancing in the Street” (Article)
Thursday, April 12, 2018
12 years ago today, “Dancing in the Street” was announced as one of the 50 latest sound recordings to be preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry. Of course, the version designated for preservation was the original version by Martha and the Vandellas, a song which was and remains part of the Motown Records catalog. That said, we’ve got several versions of the song in our catalog, too, so we thought we’d spotlight them for you and then put them in a playlist for your listening enjoyment. 1. Van Halen 2. The Grateful Dead /p> 3. Phil Collins 4. The Everly Brothers
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Out Now: David Bowie, CHANGESTWO (Article)
Friday, April 13, 2018
Throughout the course of his life and career, David Bowie was nothing if not unpredictable, but there was at least one instance when he surprised people by thinking squarely inside the box: when the time came to deliver a sequel to his immortal best-of collection CHANGESONEBOWIE, he did so by releasing – wait for it – CHANGESTWOBOWIE. It’s brilliant, really. For anyone else, it would’ve been the most predictable title in the world, which meant that when Bowie did it, it was, in fact, just another great moment of unpredictability, because nobody saw it coming. If you’ve never had the
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Single Stories: Daniel Powter, “Bad Day” (Article)
Friday, April 13, 2018
12 years ago today, Daniel Powter sat atop the Billboard Hot 100, making this a good day to do a Single Stories piece on “Bad Day.” Written by Powter and produced by Mitchell Froom and Jeff Dawson, “Bad Day” was actually recorded by Powter and Dawson in 2002, but after doing so, they failed to find a record label that was interested in releasing it. After Tom Whalley, chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers Records, heard a demo tape of the song, he offered Powter a contract, and to say that it was a move that paid off in spades is one of the great understatements of all time. Naturally, critics
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