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42 years ago today, Rose Royce pulled up and parked themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with their debut single, which – as beginnings to music careers go – is virtually as good as it gets. Written...

All good things must come to an end, and as we arrive at the final Tuesday in January, we must bid adieu to our annual START YOUR EAR OFF RIGHT promotion. Yes, we know, it’s going to be sad to...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a German gentleman who is considered a synthpop legend in certain circles, as well he should be. In the US, however, his predominant claim to fame is for a song which was effectively a...

41 years ago today, one of the greatest music and comedy crossovers of all time took place on prime-time television. That’s right: we’re talking about that time the Doobie Brothers guest-starred on What’s Happening!! If it seems like an unlikely...

27 years ago today, Color Me Badd ascended to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the second – and, at least of this writing, last – time in their career. Produced by Howard Thompson, a.k.a. Howie Tee, “All...

34 years ago today, Prince and the Revolution released the final single from the soundtrack to Purple Rain, a track which ultimately turned into the LP’s fifth top-40 hit. Recorded almost exactly a year before its release (the session took...

30 years ago today, Debbie Gibson released her sophomore album, an LP which provided her with the second #1 hit single of her career. In addition, by celebrating its arrival on record store shelves three freaking decades ago, ELECTRIC YOUTH...

50 years ago today, Jethro Tull stepped onstage to play their inaugural performance in the United States…and apparently either they liked it or America liked it, because five decades later, they’re still playing dates across the U.S. of A.! The...

It’s hard to pinpoint when the Grateful Dead’s concert at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977 became the Holy Grail-kinda show it became. It was probably sometime between the summer of 1977, when tapes of the show began...