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• Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow…Right!May 10, 2008
  Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow…Right! is the debut album release by Bill Cosby. It was recorded live at the famous The Bitter End club in New York City’s Greenwich Village during early 1963. It was my most prized album when it came out.  I would play it on a daily basis and knew the [...]
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• All You Zombies ~ The HootersMay 6, 2008
  The Hooters were formed in 1980 and played their first show on July 4 of that year. They took their name from a nickname for the melodica, a type of keyboard harmonica which is German in origin and made by Hohner. Two of the members, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, originally played in a band [...]
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• Venus ~ The Shocking BlueMay 6, 2008
  Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague formed in 1967. Venus Released in late 1969 as a single from the album At Home, The Shocking Blue’s single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 7, 1970. RIAA certification came on January 28, 1970 for selling over one million copies in the [...]
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• What’s Up ~ 4 Non BlondesMay 5, 2008
  Bassist Christa Hillhouse knew guitarist Shaunna Hall for many years in San Francisco. They met drummer Wanda Day, and after witnessing Linda Perry sing solo at a club they convinced her to join the band. In an interesting coincidence, October 17, 1989 was the day of the Loma Prieta earthquake that hit San Francisco and [...]
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• Snoopy for President ~ Royal GuardsmenMay 4, 2008
  The Royal Guardsmen were a rock band from Ocala, Florida, a sextet composed of Bill Balough (bass), John Burdett (drums), Chris Nunley (vocals), Tom Richards (guitar), Billy Taylor (organ), and Barry Winslow (vocals/guitar). Originally known as the Posmen, the band adopted their Anglophile monicker during the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and other British [...]
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• Timothy ~ The BouysMay 4, 2008
  For Nerbygirl: The Buoys were a progressive rock band from the early 1970s. Its membership included Bill Kelly, Fran Brozena, Jerry Hludzik, Carl Siracuse, Chris Hanlon, and Sally Rosoff, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They are most famous for their recording of Rupert Holmes’s “Timothy”, a song deliberately written to get banned, based on a theme of cannibalism. “Timothy” [...]
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• Looking Out My Back Door ~ Creedence Clearwater RevivalMay 4, 2008
  Originally formed as The Golliwoggs in 1959,  Creedence Clearwater Revival consisted of singer, lead guitarist, and primary writer John Fogerty, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bass player Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. Their musical style encompassed rock and roll and so-called swamp rock genres. The band’s songs are often cited as examples of patriotic, liberal [...]
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• Living in the Past ~ Jethro TullMay 3, 2008
  Jethro Tull are a Grammy Award–winning British rock group that formed in 1967-1968. Their music is marked by the distinctive vocal style and lead flute work of front man Ian Anderson. Initially playing blues rock with an experimental flavour, they have, over the years, incorporated elements of classical, folk and ‘ethnic’ musics, jazz and art [...]
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• The Americans ~ Gordon SinclairMay 3, 2008
  “The Americans” is a legendary commentary by Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. Originally written for a regular broadcast on CFRB radio in Toronto on June 5, 1973, it became a media and public phenomenon, replayed several times a day by some United States radio stations, released as a hit audio recording in several forms, credited by [...]
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• Gimme dat ding ~ The PipkinsMay 3, 2008
  If any of you have ever watched the old Benny Hill Show, you are familiar with the instrumental version of this song used for a lot of the silent sketches during the 1970s and 1980s. The song came out in 1969 and rose to number six on the charts in January 1970.  It is a song [...]
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