Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-12-22

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Today’s playlist celebrates the November 13 birthdays of Booker T., Buffalo Springfield’s Neil Young, Blue Öyster Cult’s Buck Dharma, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna, Darlene Edwards (a/k/a Jo Stafford), Hot Chocolate’s Errol Brown, Brian Hyland, Bay City Rollers’ Les McKeown, The Mello-Kings’ Jerry Scholl, Tevin Campbell, and Grace Kelly; and the November 13 birthdays of Timmy Thomas, The Teddy Bears’ Carol Connors, Cass McCombs, Onyx’s Sonny Seeza, and Idris Muhammad.

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Throwback Thursday: 1960

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Look at some of the names who had hits in 1960: Elvis Presley, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, Ella Fitzgerald, The Everly Bros., Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, The Drifters, Ike & Tina Turner, Dion, Jackie Wilson, Bobby Darin, Chubby Checker, Brenda Lee. It’s like the radio only played superstars. Here are 30 of that year’s best:

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Throwback Thursday: 1962

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A popular misconception that I sometimes fall into is that the years after The Day The Music Died (early 1959) and before The Beatles hit in America (early 1964) the pop chart was pretty dull. Sure, there was a lot of schmaltz on the Hot 100 – there always is – but there was a lot of exciting stuff, too, as today’s Throwback Thursday playlist will attest. Girl groups, Motown, Ray Charles, James Brown, Frankie Valli, Sam Cooke, The Beach Boys and lots of other good stuff made the top 40. Have a listen to thirty of 1962’s best.

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