Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-17-23

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Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong collaborated to write several hits for The Temptations, among them “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone,” “I Can’t Get Next To You,” “Psychedelic Shack,” “Ball Of Confusion,” and “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me).” The latter was inspired by Strong’s crush on a woman who didn’t know he existed. It became The Temptations’ third number one single on the Hot 100. 

Lead vocalist on “Just My Imagination,” the late Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations was born on this date in 1939.

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

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Today’s playlist celebrates the December 11 birthdays of Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Big Mama Thornton, Pérez Prado, Brenda Lee, Bread’s David Gates, Jermaine Jackson, J. Frank Wilson, Jon Brion, and Sister Double Happiness’s Gary Floyd; and the December 12 birthdays of Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, MC5’s Rob Tyner, The Association’s Terry Kirkman, Manu Dibango, Sheila E., The Ruts’ Malcolm Owen, Grover Washington Jr., Georgia Satellites’ Dan Baird, Connie Francis, The Fixx’s Cy Curnin, and Bob Dorough.

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Throwback Thursday – 1981

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me before promThe blogger in 1981, before heading to the senior prom

For this week’s Throwback Thursday playlist, we revisit 1981. The 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year went to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy. The Best New Artist was Shena Easton. Record of the Year and Song of the Year went to “Bette Davis Eyes,” performed by Kim Carnes. Both Carnes and Easton were nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, along with Olivia Newton-John for “Physical” and Juice Newton for “Angel of the Morning,” but those ladies lost to Lena Horne for “WTF?”. Rick Springfield won Best Rock Performance, Male (naturally) for “Jessie’s Girl.” “Just the Two of Us,” the Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers hit, took home the trophy for Best Rhythm & Blues Song.

Here are some of 1981’s biggest hits:

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