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The Jackson 5, The Love You Save
This was the third killer single (I Want You Back, ABC) from the Jackson 5 after they made their killer debut on Motown. It’s a song with a crazy soaring melody and complex vocal arrangement that came from the hit making geniuses “The Corporation,” the Los Angeles wing of Motown’s machine. This performance, from Ed…
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Seinfeld, How it Began
The “Seinfeld” obsession continues, this time with a great documentary on it’s unlikely creation and even more unlikely smash success. It’s a revealing 6 part look into how the show started off as a quirky experimental program whose premise was wrapping a sitcom around a standup comedians act. It was a totally novel creation springing…
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The Blues Brothers, Ray Charles, Twist it (Shake Your Tail Feather)
How about that keyboard reflecting in Ray Charles’s sunglasses? That’s rock and roll, or more specifically, the blues. This legendary scene, from the “Blues Brothers” movie, is and irreplaceable document of blues rock awesomeness. The Blues Brothers were a group formed by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, two SNL geniuses who loved the blues and…
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Curb Your Enthusiasm Cast at the Paley Center
If you caught last Sunday’s episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Palestinian Chicken,” you know Larry David is on a hot streak. There are a lot of genius comics in the world right now, but Larry is going for the throne of world’s funniest man. I can’t get enough of Larry and the world of “Curb,”…
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The Everly Brothers and John Lennon, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Cathy's Clown
Dreams are mysterious and crazy things. Sometimes you’ll have a dream and have no idea of what to make of it. Songs simply about dreams, even sort of romantic cliched ones, are sometimes enough just to trigger those feelings of the novel, the unexplained, and the otherworldly. Such is the case with the 1958 Felice…
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Star Wars NEW Deleted Footage
Lets face it, since 1999, “Star Wars” has been a bag of shit. I was 13 years old when the “Phantom Menace” came, old enough to have my “Star Wars” fantasy life crushed to smithereens by the atrocity that was George Lucas’s Death Star explosion of a movie. It was sad because I had both…
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Ricky Gervais Meets Larry David
If you’ve been following the site lately, you’ve noticed that I’ve been alternating its content between rock and roll and Larry David. Larry is just one of my biggest comedy heroes, and his newest 8th season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is off to a roaring start. The trailers for season 8 point to an appearance…
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Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Say Say Say, The Girl is Mine
The year was 1981. Michael Jackson was staying over Paul and Linda McCartney’s house. The pair of ultra stars were recording songs with Quincy Jones and George Martin for their respective albums. For Thriller, MJ and Macca were laying down “The Girl is Mine,” a horrendous piece of saccharine pop. For McCartney’s equally successful album…
