Articles tagged "pop past"

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Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer): One More Time with the King of Western Swing

by Bob Proehl

[20.Mar.09] :. Today, many performers play a revivalist form of Western Swing, but even more may be tipping a hat to Bob Wills without even knowing it. Chomping down on his cigar, Wills and his legacy strut around the stage of musical history, rarely taking the lead but now and then giving a holler of approval.

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POP PAST… this week in music history

by Sarah Zupko

[9.Feb.09] :. On February 9, 1964 the Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show fully launching Beatlemania in America and changing American pop culture forever. It was one of the real...

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Column: Subversive Rock Humor

Esquerita: The Other Originator of Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp

by Iain Ellis

[1.Aug.08] :. This ultimate "odd man out" -- homosexual, black, bizarre-looking, crazy-behaving, and even crazier-playing rocker -- was pushed into the shadows beyond the bright lights of Little Richard.

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Column: The Lost Signal

NBC News Overnight: And So It Went

by Bill Gibron

[24.Apr.07] :. NBC News Overnight strove to include the audience as much as possible, making its hour of news feel like a visit from a very wise, very witty, very worldly friend.

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