Music to Help Us Get Through Everything Together: Earth, Wind & Fire “Kalimba Story”
In honor of Earth, Wind & Fire bassist Verdine White‘s 70th birthday, today’s song to help us get through everything together is the band’s “Kalimba Story.”
Author: Ray Schuck
Birthday of the Week: Paul Anka
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DEF: Rod Stewart “Twistin’ the Night Away”
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Voltron
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It Happened 50 Years Ago: Raiders “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)”
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DEF: Dr. Hook “Loveline”
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Music to Help Us Get Through Everything Together: twenty øne piløts “Saturday”
Today’s song to help us get through everything together is twenty øne piløts‘ “Saturday.”
Music to Help Us Get Through Everything Together: Alison Krauss & Union Station “Gravity”
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DEF: Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
Four songs from Def Leppard‘s 1987 Hysteria album reached the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1988, the second of those four songs, “Pour Some Sugar on...
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