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by Kevin Burton You say the YMCA dance made you sick in the 70s? The Bump? That Saturday Night Fever pointing dance? But did anybody ever die from it? From reporter Rosalind Jana on the BBC, comes the story of a dance craze that was truly crazy. In Strasbourg, France, in …
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by Kevin Burton It’s Saturday baby, the day we’ve all been waiting for! You know what that means. It’s date night! But what does date night mean anymore? Between Covid 19 safety measures and the new geezer bedtimes we’re learning to prefer, date night isn’t what it used to be. …
by Kevin Burton As a consumer of popular music for more than 50 years I thought I knew exactly what a groove was, until I tried to define it. I have no trouble feeling the groove in “Ain’t That Peculiar,” by Marvin Gaye for example. But how to define it? The website …
by Kevin Burton There is a case to be made for Fats Domino as the main creator of rock and roll, but he rarely gets that credit, or even gets into that conversation. Yesterday we began to look at why that might be, what causes rock historians to not give him full credit …
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by Kevin Burton The best song I didn’t fit into my Flying Colors series about songs with a color in the title is “Blueberry Hill” by Fats Domino. This is not the first time he has been overlooked. His “Blue Monday” did make number 6 on my list, so I didn’t ignore him …
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