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Romance at Random, Vol. 81: Sylvia Pillow Talk

February 13, 2009 – 10:30 am
So, tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day, a feast-day intended to honor early Christian martyrs who bore the name Valentinus. Thanks to a misinterpretation of a Chaucer poem, the efforts of 14th century French courtesans and the industriousness of a Massachusetts woman named Esther Howland who essentially founded the modern greeting-card industry, February 14th has […]
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Wanna Bone?

October 7, 2008 – 10:30 am
Today was supposed to be the day I’ve been waiting nearly two years for. Today, one of my favorite bands of the New Millennium (even though they’ve been making records since the tail-end of the last decade of the last Millennium) was supposed to releases their ninth studio album. I’ve been looking forward […]
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Records at Random Vol. 67 - Rose Royce Rose Royce III: Stikes Again!

September 19, 2008 – 10:30 am
I said a lot of good things about nature this week. So I was saddened when I learned it had run its course with legendary Soul music composer and producer Norman Whitfield, who passed away on Tuesday due to complications stemming from diabetes. He was only 65 years old. Like many songwriters and studio […]
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Just Say “I Gotsta Get Me Some” (Then Go Get You Some… At the Recca-Sto’)

July 30, 2008 – 10:51 am
Yesterday I bigged up Blueprint for sampling classic Soul. Today I’ve gotta give it up to some folks who are recreating that vintage Soul sound the old fashioned way. Yeah, I know, the whole retro-Soul thing is like the biggest fad of the last two years and everything. But being the ubiquitous […]
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Records at Random Vol. 55 - The Temptations A Song For You

June 6, 2008 – 10:46 am
I started the week on Monday with a post about a group called the Boom Clap Bachelors. And now I’m capping it off with a Friday Records at Random entry on a platter featuring a standout cut titled “I’m a Bachelor.” Coincidence, you ask? Well, let me assure you that if my life […]
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