Inspired by the November 3 birthdays of Courtney Barnett, Adam Ant, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, Lulu, John Barry, Lucas, Mable John, Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz, Icicle Works’ Ian McNabb and The Subways’ Billy Lunn.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-28-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 28 birthdays of Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner and 2 Unlimited’s Ray Slijngaard.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-27-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 27 birthdays of The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston, The Surfaris’ Jim Fuller, Sixpence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash, and Lonzo.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-23-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 23 birthdays of KT Tunstall, The Orlons’ Rosetta Hightower, June Carter Cash, Imagination’s Leee John, Duffy, and The Floaters’ Larry Cunningham.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (5-3-20)
2020 seemed like just another year, until this week. Something mind-boggling happened. No, the president of the U.S. didn’t display empathy. Get this: The Village People are presently in the Top 40 on the Adult Contemporary chart with a ballad taken from their 2019 Christmas album. The key terms in that sentence: Village People, presently, Top 40, Adult Contemporary, ballad, Christmas. It’s 2020! The song is called “If You Believe” and it jumped from #53 to #25 this week with a 310% increase in radio airplay over last week. “If You Believe?” More like “Hard to Believe!” Am I right, people?
Today’s playlist is inspired by the May 3 birthdays of James Brown, Frankie Valli, Father John Misty, Soft Cell’s David Ball, Pete Seeger, Christopher Cross, Mary Hopkin and Napoleon XIV.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (4-25-20)
Inspired by the April 25 birthdays of ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Erasure’s Andy Bell, Ella Fitzgerald, Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band’s Cory Daye, Albert King, Hank Azaria, Los Bravos’ Mike Kogel, and Renee Zellweger; and the passing of Bohannon.
Pride 50
On June 28, 1969, what was supposed to be a routine raid on a gay bar by the New York City police turned violent when patrons at the Stonewall Inn fought back, thus setting off the gay liberation movement. That pivotal moment was recognized one year later with a gathering in New York’s Greenwich Village, where the Stonewall Inn is located, and Gay Pride marches in Los Angeles and Chicago. The following year, Gay Pride marches sprang up in Boston, Dallas, Milwaukee, London, Paris, West Berlin and Stockholm. The Pride movement grew with each passing year, and it continues to expand to this day.
Tunes du Jour celebrates 50 years of Pride with today’s playlist. Be seen. Be heard. Be proud. Celebrate. Love.
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Not Your Typical LGBTQ+ Pride Playlist
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Tune du Jour celebrates with this playlist consisting of two hundred songs by and/or about Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts and Qs. Happy Pride!
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A Hint Of Mint – Volume 78: LGBTQ Music From 1984 To 1985
In this installment, we finally wrap up 1984 and move into 1985, welcoming Bronski Beat into the fold. There are songs to dance to, songs to rock out to, and some to chill out to.
This playlist consists of twenty songs, most performed by artists who fall somewhere under the LGBTQ umbrella, a couple with queer lyrical content.
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A Hint Of Mint – Volume 58: A Total Blam-Blam
I’d love to tell you what’s on this playlist, but I’m late for an appointment and the words aren’t coming to me. I can tell you it includes The Smiths, Queen and Bronski Beat, that it’s a rocking affair, and that the oldest song on it is from 1966 and the most recent from 2002. Now if you’ll excuse me….
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