Thirty songs that hit in 2008
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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: 12-13-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the December 13 birthdays of Television’s Tom Verlaine, Taylor Swift, Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge, Jamie Foxx, Ted Nugent, Evanescence’s Amy Lee, The Time’s Morris Day, Steve Forbert, Dick Van Dyke, and John Anderson; and the December 14 birthdays of Jane Birkin, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott, Spike Jones, Beth Orton, The Big Pink’s Robbie Furze, Charlie Rich, The Searchers’ Frank Allen, Linda Jones, Dandy Livingstone, and The Beatnuts’ Juju.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 9-30-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the September 30 birthdays of Frankie Lymon, T. Rex’s Marc Bolan, Sugababes’ Keisha Buchanan, The 5th Dimension’s Marilyn McCoo, Johnny Mathis, Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes, Patrice Rushen, T-Pain, The Lox’s Sheek, Len Cariou, and The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams; and the October 1 birthdays of Youssou N’Dour, Donny Hathaway, Richard Harris, The Shocking Blue’s Mariska Veres, Peaches & Herb’s Herb Fame, Brownsville Station’s Cub Coda, The Capitols’ Samuel George, Jebediah’s Bob Evans, Julie Andrews, Shalamar’s Howard Hewett, and Thomas Leer.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 9-15-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the September 15 birthdays of Cannonball Adderley, Night Ranger’s Kelly Keagy, and Jimmy Gilmer; the September 16 birthdays of Wire’s Colin Newman, B.B. King, Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch, Elastica’s Justine Frischmann, T La Rock, The Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson, Babybird’s Stephen Jones, The Bellamy Brothers’ David Bellamy, Marc Anthony, Hinds’ Ana Perrote, The Mock Turtles’ Martin Coognan, The Prisoners’ Graham Day, and Little Willie Littlefield; and the September 17 birthdays of Naughty By Nature’s Vin Rock, Hank Williams, The Prodigy’s Keith Flint, Doug E. Fresh, Five Man Electrical Band’s Les Emmerson, Brand Nubian’s Lord Jamar, The Mystics’ Phil Cracolici, The Tubes’ Fee Waybill, Flo Rida, Anastacia, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin’s Jonn Penney, Bill Black, and Dorothy Loudon.
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A Kanye West Playlist
My favorite artist to emerge in the 2000s is Kanye West. Not only has he released so many great tracks, he also tries new things with each release, not content to repeat himself or rest on his laurels. Unfortunately, his public shenanigans – some non-music-related, some gimmicky promotional stunts – have distracted from his talent, especially these last few years. This playlist will remind you of his merits. Big fan that I am, I hadn’t heard some of these songs in a while. It was nice to hear them again.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (9-30-20)
Inspired by the passings of Helen Reddy and Mac Davis and the September 30 birthdays of The Fifth Dimension’s Marilyn McCoo, Johnny Mathis, T. Rex’s Marc Bolan, Frankie Lymon, Sugababes’ Keisha Buchanan, Patrice Rushen, T-Pain, Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes, Marley Marl and Len Cariou.
The Song Retains The Name
Today is Bobby Brown’s 46th birthday. A former member of New Edition, Brown had his first solo hit in 1988 with “Don’t Be Cruel,” which reached #8 on the Hot 100. Though it shares its title with an Elvis Presley #1 hit from 1956, Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel” is not a remake.
That brings us to today’s playlist, which I call The Song Retains the Name. It consists of different songs with the same title. I initially planned to include twenty such songs, but more kept springing to mind. Before I knew it, I passed 100 entries. There are plenty more, so I decided to open this up to my reader(s). If you have songs that share titles you’d like to add, feel free to do so.
(NOTES: I included The Jacksons’ “This Place Hotel” because when it was released in 1980 its title was “Heartbreak Hotel.” Thought he didn’t have to, Michael Jackson, the song’s writer, later changed its name to “This Place Hotel” to avoid confusion with the Elvis Presley song “Heartbreak Hotel.” Whitney Houston didn’t feel the need to make the same Hotel accommodation.
Also, though it is listed on Spotify as “The Best of My Love,” the Eagles track does not have a “The” on the 45 or the band’s On the Border album.)
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