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‘How Long (Betcha’ Got a Chick on the Side)’: The Pointer Sisters’ Classic
When they released their debut album in 1973, The Pointer Sisters played on the then-current nostalgia for the previous generation. For Anita, Ruth, Bonnie, and June, it made sense: Their tight...
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‘My People…Hold On’: Eddie Kendricks’ Spiritual Anthem
You don’t always get to choose how a song will speak to its times. Once it hits the ears and hearts of the people, what you thought (or at least said) was a song about the universality of love becomes...
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The Best Undisputed Truth Songs: Funky Gems Worth Revisiting
The Sound of Young America may have been Motown Records’ boastful tagline, but if you can back them up, boasts are just truths spoken loudly. And the truth was that Motown had its finger on the pulse....
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‘Left of Center’: Suzanne Vega’s ‘Pretty in Pink’ Hit
Squished in-between pop, punk, New Wave, there was Suzanne Vega and the “folk revival.” Or, at least, that’s what people were calling it. Maybe in what some saw as the excesses of the decade, there was...
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