Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-7-22

Today’s playlist celebrates the December 7 birthdays of Tom Waits, Damien Rice, Louis Prima, All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, and Harry Chapin; and the December 8 birthdays of Nicki Minaj, The Doors’ Jim Morrison, The Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman, Sinéad O’Connor, Jerry Butler, Jimmy Smith, Geto Boys’ Bushwick Bill, George Baker, Dan Hartman, Martin Circus’s Gerard Blanc, Sammy Davis Jr., Fox’s Noosha Fox, Alice DeeJay’s Judith Pronk, and Chrisette Michele.

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Throwback Thursday: 1956

Though it was 65 years ago, the names of many of the hitmakers of 1956 remain well-known to today’s public: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, The Platters, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, James Brown, Bill Haley and His Comets, Frank Sinatra, Bo Diddley, Ella Fitzgerald, The Drifters. What a year! Check out some highlights below.

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