deep dive

If you’re a fan of the classic R&B group The Impressions, then the album cited in the title of this piece has probably got you scratching your head. “Now hang on just a second,” you’re thinking. “I know The Impressions...

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In today’s installment of Deep Dive, we’re taking a look – and a listen – to Bread’s fifth studio album, an effort which earned the band three top-20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Unlike the band’s previous album, however,...

If you lived in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, then you’re almost certainly familiar with the band Hot Chocolate, who were rarely off the UK Singles chart during the former decade and were still making regular appearances in...

54 years ago this month, Gerry and the Pacemakers released their debut single, a track which was famously recorded and then set aside by The Beatles. One can’t help but suspect that Gerry Marsden continued to thank his fellow Liverpudlians...

The story of the group Rose Royce is an interesting one. They formed from the memberships of various backing bands in Los Angeles, first calling themselves Total Concept Unlimited and touring with Edwin Starr. Then Starr introduced them to Norman...

47 years ago this month, The Impressions released their 12th studio album, but it’s an LP that’s remembered predominantly because it’s the last one that featured Curtis Mayfield fronting the group. Recorded at the Record Plant in New York City,...

55 years ago this month, Jimmy Witherspoon released his classic album ‘SPOON, which provides us with an opportunity to take a…DEEP DIVE! Jimmy Witherspoon was a jump blues legend, and if that particular phrase tells you nothing about his music,...

56 years ago today, Ray Charles was at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Georgia on My Mind,” which is certainly an anniversary worth celebrating, but since we don’t actually have that track within our catalog, we decided...