Tell me, tell me, if you think you know. The pride of Oakland, CA. Here is more on the band: Tower’s musical odyssey actually began in 1968 when Emilio...
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This Day in Music reports that The Prince of Motown would have turned 76 today. It also says that on this day in 2006, Watts Branch Park in Washington, DC, was...
Perhaps the most fun thing about editing The Daily Music Break is running into music that I’ve never heard before. It’s all over the map. Some is...
(Note: This post was written in 2014) It’s challenging to write about Prince. He has been around for so long and has released a mountain of music in...
The version of “Shout” embedded below is the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Hour hosted by Dick Clark. The first two or three seconds are priceless if...
James Brown: Night Train The Capitols: Cool Jerk (featuring Bob Babbitt) Gladys Knight & the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia/I Heard It Through the...
This is the first trombone player featured at TDMB. It’s nice that he is a next step in the proud tradition of New Orleans horn players. Indeed, he seems...
Low Rider, above, doesn’t start until about a minute and half into the clip. It is interesting to watch Don Cornelius hold court, however. War has a...
Thanks to my friend Tim for letting me know about Robert Randolph and the Family Band. A couple of paragraphs about the band’s new album, We Walk This...
Something had been missing from this site. I couldn’t figure it out. It finally hit me: Falco singing “Der Kommissar.” Here are the words in...
