Double A-side Single #216

For as much enjoyment as I got listening to my parents’ record collection as a kid, I also got a lot of entertainment out of simply thumbing through the albums and looking at all the artwork. One album cover that always stood out to me was the cover of Chuck Mangione’s Feels So Good. It …

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Double A-side Single #215

Saved By The Bell was a show I watched religiously right from the beginning of its run. I even watched the subsequent Saved By The Bell: The College Years spin-off, that’s how into it I was. While the original series had a number of memorable episodes, one of the standouts for me is the episode …

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Double A-side Single #214

Enjoying The Big Lebowski as much as I did and having the background with my mom’s affinity for Kenny Rogers, it was a surreal experience when I had the opportunity to work on the multi-track tapes for some of the albums by the band The First Edition. I was already well acquainted with the song …

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Double A-side Single #213

Quincy Jones has touched various parts of my life, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly. The earliest encounter was watching the TV show Sanford And Son with my grandma when I was very young. It wasn’t until many years later that I learned he had written the theme song. The most recent encounter involved some work on …

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Double A-side Single #212

I was recently thinking about these musicians-turned-actresses while I was at work last week. I can’t remember the exact context of the conversation, but I asked a coworker of mine if he had ever seen the movie Mask (not to be confused with The Mask with Jim Carrey), which he hadn’t. Thinking about Cher’s performance …

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Double A-side Single #211

I celebrated my 40th birthday towards the end of last year. I usually like to keep it pretty low key, but some friends and relatives of mine ended up organizing a small, casino-themed surprise party for me, which was very thoughtful and appreciated. One of the gifts I received was a stack of about four …

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Double A-side Single #210

Pinball has been one of my favorite arcade games for a long time. It all started with a pinball machine named Space Shuttle. My dad also had a friend who owned a King Tut machine that I would play anytime we visited. Through the years, I’ve seen various artist-themed pinball machines, but it seems like …

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Double A-side Single #209

One cartoon I used to watch occasionally as a kid was The Pink Panther Show. It wasn’t necessarily one of my favorites, but I always loved the theme song. The mood it created just seemed to fit so perfectly with what you were watching. Little did I know at the time that the music and …

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Double A-side Single #208

My name is an unusual one. The only person I ever knew that had the same name as me was my dad. Because it’s an uncommon name but also sounds like a few more familiar names, it’s rare that anyone gets it right the first time. Hell, sometimes they don’t even get it right the …

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Double A-side Single #207

I got a good laugh on my way home from work today. Not that long ago, I mentioned how I think the universe tries to get our attention sometimes. I was working on some stuff for the site last night and thinking about what songs I wanted to pick for today’s post. One of the …

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