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Most discussions of soul music circa ’72 focuses exclusively on the eruption coming out of Philadelphia, but in reality that represented only a fraction of ...read more
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I remember 1972 as the year that I started to get serious about music collecting. Before then, I had accumulated crates of 45’s, but they were often ...read more
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With so much diversity creeping into popular music, mostly through artists taking full advantage of the LP format, it was only natural that some of this ...read more
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Boy, 1962 sure was a great year for pop music. Rock and roll may have been falling from favor (temporarily), but R&B, girl groups, country music, classy ...read more
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In 1982, I couldn’t help but let a degree of cynicism infect my appreciation for new music. Punk had reared its ugly head and then dissolved into a ...read more
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In previous shows, we discussed how the singer/songwriter trend started to peak in the summer of ’72, as evidenced by the huge success of artists such as ...read more
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I don’t know how old you were in 1972, or if you were even alive yet, but if you were of high school age or older, chances are very good that some of your ...read more
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Wow….it turns out that last show was a lot more popular (and more fun) than I had originally anticipated. Of course, I can understand why listening to ...read more
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In the Summer of ’82, it became almost painfully obvious that the punk rock revolution was really just a stylistic change of course- meet the new boss, ...read more
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The last time we played singles from 1982, I felt obliged to write the introduction as an apology of sorts – claiming that I was having difficulty ...read more
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