Soul music is about feeling, not perfection. Though I do listen to younger R&B singers, they generally don’t excite me like Aretha Franklin has during her long, lauded career. Though I love Mary J. Blige,…
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Songs That Should Have Been Top-Ten Hits, Volume 3: The Clive Davis Edition
For many years, it was customary for those seeking to curry favor with Clive Davis, the legendary hit maker and founder of Arista Records, to be given the “Clive Davis Challenge”: make two CDs (or,…
100+ Memorable Summer Songs
It seems possible that we are presently living in the post-summer song era, a period whose most significant characteristic is an abject lack of joy and connection to one another via the pop songs…
David Munk Interviewed by the England’s Merry Band of Queer Misfits—The Ethel Mermaids
Several months ago I began to get to know a lovely lady in London called Corinna Tomrley. I think it was through Twitter, but it might have been Facebook—who can say with this much…
Adele’s “Skyfall”: A Worthy Addition to the James Bond Musical Canon?
Adele’s new James Bond theme Skyfall was released today. I’m completely in a James Bond frame of mind, having just seen Dr. No and Goldfinger projected at the Landmark Loew’s Jersey City movie palace on…
Songs That Should Have Been Top-Ten Hits, Vol. 1: or, Has the Beat Killed Melody on American Radio?
Pop music has become as disposable as an mp3 file. There are many terrific things about the Internet, but one of the negative consequences of so much information is that our connection to even…
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