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People to People: April 26, 2008
The surviving members of the legendary group The Impressions who first began their illustrious career with Jerry Butler and later with Curtis Mayfield join us to talk about their music and the messages their songs conveyed in relation to the Civil...Tags: Curtis Mayfield
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With mosquito season in full force, learn to bite back
Special to The TimesWhether you're a 10-year-old swimming in the lake at Camp Ka-ching-a or a 30-year-old having a drink on the terrace at the W, summer is the season for skimpy clothes, bare skin and, in a cruel twist, hungry mosquitoes. There's nothing like a field of...Tags: Los Angeles, Medical Specialization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases, Medicine
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Mayfields music fueled an era
Special to The TimesIf asked to name the recording artist whose music came closest to serving as a soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most pop fans would probably think of James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan. But a new DVD makes a strong case that...Tags: Radio Industry, Andrew Young, Folk Music, Chuck D, James Brown
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Timberlake to induct Madonna into Hall of Fame
Justin Timberlake will induct Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The "Sexyback" singer has been working with the Material Mom on her upcoming album, expected to be released this year.
Madonna will be among those honored March 10 at the...Tags: John Mellencamp, Tom Hanks, Justin Timberlake, Popular Music, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Pop calendar
South Florida Sun-SentinelOCTOBER Today -- Velvet Revolver, Alice in Chains, Sparta, 7 p.m. SoundAd. Today -- Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, The Audition, We The Kings, 7:30 p.m. Revo. Today -- Patti LuPone, 8 p.m. Carnival. Today -- Yellowjackets, 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Sandoval....Tags: Engelbert Humperdinck, Popular Music, Martin Short, Scott Hamilton, Benny Goodman
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Pop Music Preview
South Florida Sun-SentinelLook out, Baby Boomers, the classics are coming to rock you like a hip replacement. Except for Beatlemania (March 8, Coral Springs Center for the Arts), classic rock tributes used to be the purview of bar bands. But bars are noisy and, if you can't...Tags: Music Industry, Cruzon Amphitheatre, Miami Beach, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin
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Only the Strong Survive
STAFF WRITER(Unrated). Shaggy, unwieldy mix of concert film and travelogue allows us to tag along for visits with such rhythm-and-blues icons as Jerry Butler, Mary Wilson, Sam Moore, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett, and Rufus and Carla Thomas. The music's...Tags: Music, Shaggy, Local Elections, Elections, Movies
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Summer Music Events
Staff WriterJune 1 David Lee Roth. Diamond Dave and his diabolically diminishing hairline. Westbury Music Fair. 7 p.m. $40. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. Fusing soft and hard. 11 p.m. Bowery Ballroom. $12. Zootopia. Featuring TLC, Ja Rule, Simple Plan, Ashanti,...Tags: Brian Wilson, Imperial and Royal Matters, Popular Music, Jay-Z, Meat Loaf
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Gruff gospel, hard-core country
The Holmes Brothers' sound is a rude, ramshackle, house-rocking joy. Gospel harmonies that are gruff (Sherman Holmes), gruffer (Wendell Holmes) and otherworldly (Popsy Dixon) rise out of blues shuffles, and hard-core country weepers co-exist with soul...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Music, Classical Music, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), B.B. King
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Jukebox heroes
Everybody knows what happened to jukeboxes in the '50s: They blew up. Teenyboppers, frustrated with listening to Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry on fuzzy transistor radios, flooded to soda fountains to hear music that was properly amplified. "You just...Tags: Brian Eno, ABBA, Elvis Presley, Folk Music, Frank Sinatra
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'Only the Strong Survive'
Times Staff WriterChris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's rousing documentary "Only the Strong Survive" takes its title from one of rhythm-and-blues pioneer Jerry Butler's most enduring hits, and it serves as an apt anthem not only for Butler but also for all of the other...Tags: Radio Industry, Music, Cinema Industry, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Elvis Presley
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Lasting Impression
DAKCurtis Mayfield was the King Solomon of rhythm and blues, the ghetto kid wise beyond his years who wrote the soundtrack for the civil-rights movement, the street poet of the African-American community as it struggled for self-empowerment in the '60s. No...Tags: Radio Industry, Music Industry, Spike Lee, National or Ethnic Minorities, People
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