Saturday (2/11) is the birthday of the late, great, Bobby "Boris" Pickett. He was a singer/songwriter. To celebrate, the song he penned and performed that he's most known for:
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Weekend Jukebox: Super Bowl Edition
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Saturday (2/11) is the birthday of Sheryl Crow. To celebrate:
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Sunday (2/12) is the birthday of the late, great Ray Manzarek. He was the organist in The Doors. To celebrate, their most popular song, where his intro is well known:
Sunday (2/12) is the birthday of Michael McDonald, the keyboardist/singer of the Doobie Brothers. To celebrate:
Sunday (2/12) is the birthday of Chynna Phillips -- a member of Wilson Phillips, and the daughter of rock royalty, John Phillips and Michelle Phillips. To celebrate:
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In the spirit of the excellent @Tom McAndrew birthday celebrations, on Thursday we lost a legend. Ladies & gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach.
Ah yes, we do love that song, but I rarely dance to anything but ballads. Mrs. Gambit can certainly "cut up the rug" but I am only into sloooooow dancing. I tried to learn the Bristol Stomp when I was younger but got tangled up, fell over, and nearly sent 3 people to the emergency room.
As a sad aside, Frankie Lymon, a great talent, died in 1968, at age 25, of a heroin overdose.
There is an interesting back story to this performance. Ed Sullivan and the CBS censors wanted to change the line "we couldn't get much higher" and The Doors reluctantly agreed to the very antiseptic revision --- until, during the actual live performance, they
went right back to the original lyrics. Some felt that Jim Morrison even gave the word "higher" some added emphasis.
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