Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo was born on this date in 1970. A handful of Weezer songs are included on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-16-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the November 16 birthdays The Count Five’s John Byrne, Color Me Badd’s Bryan Abrams, Odyssey’s Lillian Lopez, Chi Coltrane, Arrow, and Dan Black; the November 17 birthdays of Jeff Buckley, The Byrds’ Gene Clark, Gordon Lightfoot, Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding, Bell Biv DeVoe’s Ronnie DeVoe, Foxygen’s Sam France, The Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson, RuPaul, and Martin Scorsese; and the November 18 birthdays of Graham Parker, Hank Ballard, Fabolous, Kim Wilde, John Parr, and The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (11-24-20)
Inspired by the November 24 birthdays of The Association’s Jim Yester, Lee Michaels and Don & Juan’s Claude Johnson; and the November 23 birthdays of Miley Cyrus, The Kills’ Alison Mosshart, Betty Everett, Marcia Griffiths, Manhattan Transfer’s Alan Paul, Bruce Hornsby and Jack Marshall.
Happy Britney Spears’ Birthday!
Britney Spears was the first recording artist to thank me in her CD booklet liner notes. The album was 2000’s Oops!…I Did It Again, which set a record when it sold over 1.3 million copies in the US its first week. At the time I was running the licensing department at Zomba Recording Corporation, parent company of Jive Records, to which Britney was signed. It was a great time to be at that company. I worked with smart, creative people, and I got to apply my skills to our superstar roster (Britney, Backstreet Boys, R. Kelly, NSYNC), enabling us to increase licensing revenue four-fold during my four years of employment there.
When I started at Zomba, Britney was 17 years old and was on her second hit single, “Sometimes.” Today she turns 32. To date she has had 23 top forty hits in the US. Her latest album, Britney Jean, was released last week.
Enjoy today’s Britney-inspired playlist.