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It's all about music - my song recommendations blog, cover songs, lyrics, and artist profiles. I also write about jazz and blues standards and include ways to hear and compare as many various versions as possible. I throw in links to guitar tabs, sheet music, and other ways to play the songs yourself, as well.

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Top 10 Best Love Song Duets Top 10 Best Love Song Duets
Some of the most romantic songs recorded have been duets, chances for people who, romantically involved or not, enjoy performing together enough to create a...
Updated 10 days ago | Love Song Duets › 80s music
Tips, Tricks, And Explanations For Complicated Grammar Rules Tips, Tricks, And Explanations For Complicated Grammar Rules
English grammar has a million confusing and contradictory rules. The language has so many words in so many forms that it can be bewildering to figure out which...
Updated 49 days ago | grammar › adjectives
Old-School Rap and Hip Hop Old-School Rap and Hip Hop
The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Ice T and Ice Cube, Midnight Star and Doug E Fresh: if these names make you want to start breakin' and pop-lockin', you've come to...
Updated 8 days ago | hip hop › 80s
Healthy Cooking: Healthy Pizza Healthy Cooking: Healthy Pizza
You don't have to give up pizza as a part of your healthy diet. Include it by changing a few key ingredients! You can find newer versions of traditional toppings...
Updated 106 days ago | Healthy Pizza Recipes › cooking
The Peter Gunn Theme Song The Peter Gunn Theme Song
Peter Gunn had a theme song, and it's been re-made and remixed since his television show debuted in 1958. Once it hit the airwaves, a new hit song began making...
Updated 31 days ago | cover songs › 60s music
Sweet Potatoes: Healthy, Tasty, and Versatile Sweet Potatoes: Healthy, Tasty, and Versatile
Yes, sweet potatoes come in a can, in gelatinous chunks destined to be covered with marshmallows.  If that's your idea of sweet potato perfection, stop...
Updated 97 days ago | sweet potato recipes › are sweet potatoes healthy
How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Bread How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Bread
Quickbreads like pumpkin bread have long been staples for bakers. They are tasty, easy to make, and freeze well: you simply double the recipe and make a loa...
Updated 71 days ago | pumpkin bread › baking
The Top 10 Creepiest Love Songs The Top 10 Creepiest Love Songs
Some of the most popular love songs, if spoken to a lover, would be creepy or downright declarations of stalking. Professing your undying love and devotion...
Updated 137 days ago | Creepy Love Songs › animotion
Cover Songs and Standards Cover Songs and Standards
Great jazz and blues musicians share a common ground of songs, standards that fans and players know and love. The songs comprise a range of styles and moods...
Updated yesterday | cover songs › blues
Buyer's Guide: ThinkGeek's Women's T-Shirts Buyer's Guide: ThinkGeek's Women's T-Shirts
As a self-affirmed geek and a girl, I love that ThinkGeek, purveyors of geek clothing and toys of the best sorts, recognizes the science- and computer-loving...
Updated 40 days ago | t-shirts › babydoll
Scat Singing and Nonsense Songs: Playing with Words
Folks have been doing the verbal two-step with scat singing for a hundred years. The creativity and virtuosity that scat allows a singer to display within the...
Updated 97 days ago | scat singing › beatbox
One Note Samba: A Bossa Nova Standard
Antonio Carlos (or Tom) Jobim wrote the music--and translated Newton Mendonca's Portuguese lyrics into English--for Samba Uma Nota So, or One Note Samba, but...
Updated 145 days ago | One Note Samba › antonio carlos jobim
The Banana Boat Song: Day-O
The Banana Boat Song, also known as Day-O, grew out of a traditional Caribbean folk song. Trinidadian Edric Connor first recorded The Banana Boat Song in England...
Updated 162 days ago | The Banana Boat Song › banana boat song chords
Caravan: A Jazz Standard
Although the original recording of Caravan was made in 1936 by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators, Duke Ellington composed the music for this jazzy cover song...
Updated 162 days ago | Caravan › brian setzer
What Ever Happened to K-Tel Records?
When I was a kid, K-tel Records published the sorts of compilations, on glorious, shiny vinyl, that meant I could get big hits of the day (or at least the d...
Updated 411 days ago | music › albums
The Fargo-Moorhead Derby Girls
If you thought that roller derby was a thing of the 70s, long past and never to be seen again, you've clearly not heard of the skating revolution taking over...
Updated 319 days ago | Fargo-Moorhead Derby Girls › duluth
Sweet Home Chicago: A Blues Standard
Like many blues songs, Sweet Home Chicago has shadowy origins based in borrowed riffs and rhythms from older songs. The first recording under that name, however,...
Updated 162 days ago | Sweet Home Chicago › blues
American Bandstand Video Showcase
Before there was Soul Train, before there was Solid Gold, before there was even MTV, American Bandstand introduced new pop music and new dances to people around...
Updated 413 days ago | American Bandstand › 50s
Star Wars: The Old Republic Gree Droid Gifts
Fans of the Star Wars universe in general and video games in particular have flocked to the world's newest MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic or SWTOR. And there...
Updated 13 days ago | Star Wars › black bisector
People Get Ready: A Gospel-Inspired Standard
Curtis Mayfield wrote People Get Ready for The Impressions, who had their biggest hit with the song in 1965. The song has been credited with changing the face...
Updated 161 days ago | People Get Ready › alicia keys
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