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On ‘The Singing Detective’ and the Horrors of Tin Pan Alley

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How Dennis Potter's 1986 BBC-TV masterpiece The Singing Detective still resonates in the new Golden Age of TV.
The Personal Find: Bill Doggett’s “Honky Tonk Parts 1 & 2”
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The Personal Find: Bill Doggett’s “Honky Tonk Parts 1 & 2”

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Andrew S. Guthrie
/ 5 April 2017
A jump blues song that sold over a million copies was nowhere on my sonic horizon until I discovered it in a dusty box at the back of a thrift store.
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/ 8 May 2008
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