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I Love that Song! #16: “Your Smiling Face” by James Taylor
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s just five or maybe six notes ascending and pounded out to merge into traffic at the start, a way of getting to what amounts to a chorus of a sort, except it’s more a verse, really, and there really isn’t a chorus to speak of in this Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #15: “Rockin’ My Life Away” by Jerry Lee Lewis
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s one of those records that just sounds right. It’s 1979, and Jerry Lee Lewis, with Bones Howe in the producer’s chair, is working his sweaty way through a Mack Vickery romp, banging mercilessly on the keys, a-thump-thump-thumpin’ until his fingers are sore, singing some perfunctory lyrics and Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #14: “Mrs. Vandebilt” by Paul McCartney and Wings
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted 12.01.16) So you’re in the jungle, you’re living in a tent, you have zero financial obligations, you have all the time in the world, and you just plain don’t care. Is this a call for celebration? Right off the bat, I’m probably being too literal, trying Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #12: “She’s My Baby,” by the Traveling Wilburys
Taken from the album Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3, “She’s My Baby” finds the mysterious supergroup with their feet ensconced firmly in audacious rock and roll territory and their tongues planted firmly in cheek. There is enough energy in this song to power every light bulb that blares along the Las Vegas Strip. There is also Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #10: “Grouch of the Day,” by Squeeze
If life does indeed imitate art, and Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook’s “Grouch of the Day” represents truth, then all in the world who stress themselves over needless worry should start a club, elect a president, and sing this song to open all of their meetings. Listening to “Grouch of the Day,” as catchy a Continue reading
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