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In Memoriam...
R&B Music Commentary
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James Brown’s ‘Papa Don’t Take No Mess’: A Father’s Day Salute to the Original No-Nonsense Dad (like my own)
(June 21, 2026) – Long before television gave us Cliff Huxtable, and shortly after TV’s James Evans, Sr. became the iconic father of Norman Lear’s “Good Times,” James Brown delivered…
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Music Jeopardy 56! — Rock-n-Roll Never Forgets – 1956! Guess These Clues About 1956 in Music
(June 16, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 56! It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses. Each clue has point values…
‘Paint It, Black’ and ‘Hold On! I’m Comin’: The Songs That Ruled America On a Very Special Day 60 Years Ago
(June 14, 2026) – Sixty years ago on June 14, two future classics sat atop the nation’s major charts, as a very special birth date was being celebrated. No not…
You Laugh… But Every Act Booked for Trump’s Freedom 250 Had a No. 1 Hit Somewhere
Trump’s Freedom 250 Lineup Was Mocked—Including by the President Himself. Then I Checked Their Chart Histories. (June 11, 2026) – Six of the nine acts who were originally slated to…
Five Key R&B Figures Gone in 10 Days: Remembering Ronald LaPread, James Anthony Carmichael, Dexter Wansel, Foster Sylvers and Peabo Bryson
(June 10, 2026) – Five men. Ten Days. More than two centuries of combined musical experience gone. Between May 23 and June 2, R&B lost five important figures: James Anthony…