Today’s playlist celebrates the December 5 birthdays of Little Richard, J.J. Cale, Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Kim, Keri Hilson, Michel’le, and Pamela Blair; and the December 6 birthdays of R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Dave Brubeck, Ride’s Mike Gardener, Everything But The Girl’s Ben Watt, The Dave Clark Five’s Mike Smith, The Tymes’ George Williams, Willie Hutch, and Jonathan King.
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This week’s Throwback Thursday playlist focuses on 1976. It’s easy to remember some of the cheesier songs to make the pop chart (I’ve included examples of those), though there were a lot of great hits as well. Disco was still growing in popularity and having an influence on r&b and pop music. Punk rock was now on major labels, though it wouldn’t influence the pop chart for a while. Pick out the gems of 1976’s output and you’ll have a nice selection of tunes, as evidenced below.
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Inspired by the season and the December 5 birthdays of Little Richard, Keri Hilson, J.J. Cale, Andy Kim, Michel’le and Pamela Blair.