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20 Essential Aretha Franklin Cover Songs
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,…
Leon Russell’s A Song For You: When a “Song” Becomes a “Copyright”:
There is a great chance that regardless of your demographic profile you are familiar with Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of the really towering copyrights of the last 40 years. Aside from…
Stairway to Stardom Redux: Dante Sings the “Theme from ‘Exodus'” to Celebrate Stargayzing’s 201st Post!
I noticed over the weekend that Friday’s Woody Allen piece was the 200th blog post for Stargayzing, a milestone of sorts, and though I wanted to go on a rant today about the appalling,…
Songs That Should Have Been Top-Ten Pop Hits, Volume 2
1. Anastacia, “Left Outside Alone” (2004): In 1999, Anastacia’s debut single, “I’m Outta Love,” and album, Not That Kind, were a spectacular success all over the world except in her native country, America, where the single did…
The Beat: Spooky and Sue’s “Swingin’ On A Star” and the Difference Between a “Record” and a “Song”
“Swingin’ On a Star” was written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke way back in 1944 for the Bing Crosby film Going My Way, for which it won the Academy Award for Best…
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