Featured Blog Posts – August 2009 Archive (13)

I played this album until it disintegrated in the 60's as a teenager. On my prom, me and my date Harry parked by the lake and played the 8 track while looking at the stars from the car..all night. I would have to say So Many Stars is one of my favorites, although the whole album is indelibly linked to my memories of summer love and the age of innocence...edie

Sérgio Santos Mendes, born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil)… Continue

Rosa Passos (born April 13 1952)

is a Brazilian singer and guitarist born in Bahia.

Passos began playing piano at age three, but after listening to Dorival Caymmi and Joao Gilberto she abandoned the instrument to become a singer. In the late 1960s, Passos began appearing on television and at music festivals. In 1972 she submitted the song "Mutilados"… Continue

An Eloquent Tribute to Jobim

Michael with his hero

Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1978



I must confess: I adore Brazilian jazz. Its seductive lyrics, exotic percussion, and gorgeous chord changes combine to make… Continue

Bebel Gilberto (born Isabel Gilberto de Oliveira on May 12, 1966 in New York City) is an American-born Grammy Award-nominated Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro.…





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The doo wop era of the 1950s and '60s gave us so many memorable songs and famous groups. Like "Charlie Brown" and "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Great Pretender" by the Platters, and "Under the Boardwalk" and "On Broadway" by the Drifters.





"20/20" attended an outdoor concert in New York City a few months ago by the Elsbeary Hobbs Drifters. They sang the Drifters' hits, but the singers… Continue

Dori is the son of Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris, both famous Brazilian musicians. He began playing piano at age eight, studying under Lúcia Branco and Nise Poggi Obino. He studied music theory at the Conservatório Lorenzo Fernandez, and in 1959 made his professional debut accompanying his sister, Nana Caymmi. In 1960 he became a member of Grupo dos Sete, who wrote music for plays aired on Brazilian television. He co-directed and played violão in… Continue

Play Album

Marvin Gaye (left) and David Ritz, at Gaye's apartment in Ostend, Belgium, where "Sexual Healing" was written.

By Dale Kawashima

Author David Ritz is best known for writing the autobiographies of music legends B.B. King, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Jerry Wexler, Etta James, the Neville Brothers and Walter…

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Uncle Ricky D is off the chain...LOL He started off with some Mariah Carey, then finished it off with The Temptations "Ain't To Proud To Beg" and "Get Ready"...Checkout The Temptations Dance Moves....LOL.



Mannnnn everybody needs a Uncle like my Uncle Ricky D....LOL. In that pic up above, he had some wine in that glass...ROFLMBO





UNCLE RICKY D AT IT… Continue

In my opinion, one of the greatest Temptation Albums of all time, I have this Album, but nothing to play it on....LOL. I need to take a pic of me holding this album cover, but i don't feel like digging it out the crate....LOL



This is a must have, if you do not have it...My Album is a original and still in mint condition



THE TEMPTATIONS...WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER







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Doris Troy (6 January 1937 – 16 February 2004) was an American R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".



She was born Doris Higginson in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette at the Apollo where… Continue

Dena, Babyface, and Me In front of Jackson Park Day Camp-1960

"When I was 9... Me, Dena, and Babyface (Momma's friend Frank's neice who was about 14) went to Riverview and got lost on our journey home. We walked from Chicago's far northwest side all the way to the far southside. Leaving the amusement park at around 3pm that afternoon, it seemed like we walked across the world from my young perspective. It was divine providence, I…

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Changes by Pride 'n Politix, 1991

(if the player doesn't work download the file and listen on your player)

	Crying Over Nothing…

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