A handful of tracks by The O’Jays are included in today’s playlist, as today is the birthday of the group’s William Powell, who passed away in 1977.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-7-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the December 7 birthdays of Tom Waits, Damien Rice, Louis Prima, All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, and Harry Chapin; and the December 8 birthdays of Nicki Minaj, The Doors’ Jim Morrison, The Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman, Sinéad O’Connor, Jerry Butler, Jimmy Smith, Geto Boys’ Bushwick Bill, George Baker, Dan Hartman, Martin Circus’s Gerard Blanc, Sammy Davis Jr., Fox’s Noosha Fox, Alice DeeJay’s Judith Pronk, and Chrisette Michele.
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Throwback Thursday: 1961
The years between 1958 and 1963 are often thought of as a sleepy time for rock and roll, a quiet time between the genre’s initial burst onto the charts and the onslaught of the British Invasion. However, lots of great records were charting during those years. Check out this playlist of thirty hits from 1961 for proof.
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A Martin Luther King Day Playlist
“You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
“He had a dream now it’s up to you to see it through, to make it come true” – “King Holiday”
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (12-15-20)
Inspired by the season and the December 15 birthdays of The Drifters’ Johnny Moore, Dave Clark, Jesse Belvin, and George Kranz.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (11-28-20)
Inspired by the season and the November 28 birthdays of Randy Newman, En Vogue/Lucy Pearl’s Dawn Robinson, The 5 Royales’ Johnny Tanner, The Fleetwoods’ Gary Troxel, Chamillionaire, R.B. Greaves, William DeVaughn, Bruce Channel, The Foundations’ Clem Curtis and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (11-25-20)
Inspired by the November 25 birthdays of Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Screaming Trees’ Mark Lanegan, Jocelyn Brown, Percy Sledge, Stacy Lattisaw, Bob Lind, Lighthouse Family’s Tunde Baiyewu and EPMD’s Erick Sermon.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (10-12-20)
Inspired by the October 12 birthdays of Sam & Dave’s Sam Moore, The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio, The Temptations’ Melvin Franklin, The Damned’s Dave Vanian, and Luciano Pavaroti.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (9-4-20)
Inspired by the September 4 birthdays of Beyoncé, Mark Ronson and Sonny Charles; and the September 3 birthdays of The Beach Boys‘ Al Jardine, The Creation’s Kenny Pickett, Taana Gardner, and B.G.