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31 Days of Faves: Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
There is beauty in simplicity. Peel back all the conflicting stories about what the lyrics in “Itchycoo Park” mean, that’s the message.
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31 Days of Faves: Fifth Dimension – California Soul
Some don’t consider “California Soul” to be a major 5th Dimension hit. But it still hooks me, every time I hear it.
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31 Days of Faves: Del Amitri – Roll To Me
At barely two minutes, Del Amitri’s 1995 smash, “Roll To Me” is a timeless tune that channels the best of the 1960s.
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31 Days of Faves: Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
Producer Bones Howe is the real catalyst behind Jimmy Webb’s iconic, “MacArthur Park”. He came up with the idea. Webb created the charts. The Association rejected it. Richard Harris, with WABC programmer, Rick Sklar’s help, made it a hit.
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Happy Mother’s Day
“Motherhood is.. the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs In Heaven
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31 Days of Faves: The Troggs – Love Is All Around
The inimitable Creem and Rolling Stone rock journalist, Lester Bangs dubbed the Troggs, the “godfathers of punk”. So there’s a certain irony that their most enduring hit was a love song.