A small sampling of the many songs on which Burt Bacharach was a composer.
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Today’s playlist celebrates the October 14 birthdays of The Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward, Usher, Cliff Richard, The Chicks’ Natalie Maines, All Saints’ Shaznay Lewis, Nazareth’s Dan McCafferty, Bill Justis, Thomas Dolby, Robert Parker, Karyn White, and Omar; and the October 15 birthdays of The Jacksons’ Tito Jackson, The Orb’s Alex Paterson, Carpenters’ Richard Carpenter, Jessie Ware, Barry McGuire, The Bad Plus’s Reid Anderson, Ginuwine, The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Genaro, Marv Johnson, and Chris DeBurgh.
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I didn’t appreciate how much great music hit in 1973 until I compiled this playlist. Take a listen to the classic tunes that were unleashed in that year. Dag yo.
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I recently read a book about the music of 1971. It was pretty bad. I should have been clued off seeing that the book derived its title from the name of a Rod Stewart album that came out in…1972. The author and I agree that 1971 was a great year for music, though he focused mainly on white acts. Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, recently named the number one album of all-time in Rolling Stone, was dismissed as being overrated due to white guilt, something the author clearly doesn’t feel. I humbly suggest that the playlist below shows more of the greatness (and diversity) of 1971’s music than this book.
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Inspired by the November 8 birthdays of Bonnie Raitt, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Eric B., Rickie Lee Jones, Sam Sparro, Wizzard’s Roy Wood, Minnie Riperton, The Manhattans’ Gerald Alston, Leif Garrett, Khia, J.J. Jackson, Diana King, Patti Page, Icona Pop’s Caroline Hjelt and Glass Tiger’s Alan Frew.