A couple of songs from Snap, whose Turbo B has a birthday today, on the playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 1-6-23
In his excellent autobiography Le Freak, Chic’s Nile Rodgers writes how his group’s record label wanted to capture the magic Rodgers and his music partner Bernard Edwards brought to their group to other acts on the Atlantic Records roster, such as The Rolling Stones and Bette Midler. Nile turned down the acts that were firmly established, as with them less attention would be paid to the song’s writers and producers. He wanted to work with a lesser known act. Atlantic Records president Jerry Greenberg suggested a group of sisters who “stick together like birds of a feather,” and so it came to be that Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced the We Are Family album for Sister Sledge. I think you know what happened next.
Today’s playlist celebrates the birthday of Sister Sledge lead vocalist Kathy Sledge by including several tracks from that classic album.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-24-22
Today’s playlist celebrates Christmas; the December 24 birthdays of Motörhead’s Lemmy, Savages’ Jehnny Beth, Lee Dorsey, Ricky Martin, Ray Bryant, and Dave Bartholomew; and the December 25 birthdays of The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, Air’s Nicolas Godin, Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox, Cab Calloway, The Silhouettes’ Bill Horton, Alannah Myles, Chris Kenner, Jimmy Buffett, Dido, Bob James, and Merry Clayton.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-15-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the December 15 birthdays of The Drifters’ Johnny Moore, The Clash’s Paul Simonon, The Supremes’ Cindy Birdsong, HAIM’s Alana Haim, The Pharcyde’s Imani, Dave Clark, Jesse Belvin, George Kranz, and Rammellzee; and the December 16 birthdays of ABBA’s Benny Andersson, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Dismemberment Plan’s Travis Morrison, Zara Larsson, Ying Yang Twins’ Kaine, Flo Rida, Glenda Collins, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 9-9-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the September 9 birthdays of Otis Redding, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, Iron Butterfly’s Doug Ingle, Drugstore’s Isabel Monteiro, Les Rythmes Digitales’ Stuart Price (a/k/a Jacques LuCont), Dee Dee Sharp, The Caravelles’ Andrea Simpson, and Brittney Spencer; and the September 10 birthdays of Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Big Daddy Kane, Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker’s Dave Lowery, Bananarama/Shakespear’s Sister’s Siobhan Fahey, Three Dog Night’s Danny Hutton, T’Pau’s Carol Decker, José Feliciano, Ashley Monroe, and Avenue Q songwriter Jeff Marx.
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Throwback Thursday: 1983
Lots of great stuff on the pop chart in 1983. Lots of great stuff on the left of the dial, too. Here are 30 of that year’s finest.
