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The Lost 45s: Top 10 Fave specialty shows!

My Appointment (Listening) Book Through The Years This essay, My Appointment (Listening) Book Through The Years, was written by Sean Ross for Radio-Info.com An Instant Request from Ron Gerber. He asks about “favorite music specialty shows of all time. I’d like to hear your thoughts on ‘American Top 40’ and its mid-’80s imitators (Rick Dees, Scott Shannon, ‘Countdown America’), Barry Scott’s ‘Lost 45s,’ Dick Bartley and Cindy Barton’s shows, ‘Open […]

todayJanuary 10, 2022

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1/10/22-R. Dean Taylor Dies

Hear my pal R. Dean Taylor on "The Lost 45s." Source: U.S. Day News Canadian singer R Dean Taylor is dead. Dean Taylor has been reportedly died at the age of 82. Sadly, nothing has been reported clarifying R. Dean Taylor’s cause of death. R. Dean Taylor was a Canadian vocalist best known for his work with Motown in the 1960s and 1970s as a recording artist, composer, and record […]

todayJanuary 10, 2022

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1/9/22-James Mtume dies

Source: USA Today James Mtume, a musician and activist who formed the R&B group Mtume, has died. He was 76. His representative Angelo Ellerbee confirmed to USA TODAY on Monday that Mtume died Sunday, six days after his birthday. His cause of death is not yet known. Mtume was born on Jan. 3, 1946, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an illustrious family of musicians — his father was the saxophonist Jimmy […]

todayJanuary 9, 2022

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1/8/22-Marilyn Bergman, The Way We Were songwriter, dies

Source: Rolling Stone Marilyn Bergman, the songwriting giant and music industry fixture who, with her husband Alan, wrote the lyrics to Oscar-winning songs like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind,” has died at the age of 93. Bergman’s representative Ken Sunshine confirmed Marilyn’s death from non-Covid-related respiratory failure to the Hollywood Reporter Saturday. She is survived by her husband and collaborator Alan, […]

todayJanuary 8, 2022

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1/7/22-Dolly Parton’s streaming milestone

Source: music-news.com Dolly Parton's music catalogue has hit three billion streams. The country music legend has kick started the year with a number of career achievements. On top of the major streaming figure, the 75-year-old icon has been awarded 47 new sales certifications from around the globe. And the '9 to 5' hitmaker has quipped that the money she makes from her music is more than enough to "support" her. […]

todayJanuary 7, 2022

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“The Lost 45s with Barry Scott” – Something Old Is New Again

Terrestrial radio may be in a crisis. MP3 technology has saturated our lives, and Satellite radio has begun its quest to do to terrestrial stations what cable has threatened to network TV. Ironically, the future of terrestrial radio may lie in its past. What could save radio as a viable medium is for it to give to its audience what they can’t get anywhere else: #1 hit music that is […]

todayJanuary 4, 2022

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1/4/22-David Bowie’s Music Sold

Source: music-news.com David Bowie's "entire body of work" has been sold to Warner Chappell Music for a deal worth a reported $250 million (£185 million). The deal, which includes the rights to hundreds of beloved songs by the late Bowie, such as Space Oddity, Life on Mars?, Changes, Starman, and Let's Dance, was announced via press release on Monday. Revealing his firm had acquired the music icon's back catalogue, WCM […]

todayJanuary 4, 2022

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12/20/21-Sir Cliff Richard & burps!

Source: music-news.com Cliff Richard doesn’t eat before gigs to avoid on-stage wind. The 81-year-old music legend admitted that he avoids eating before a concert after discovering that the need to burp made things "uncomfortable" during his performances. He said: "I don’t eat anything before I go on stage because I discovered years ago that if I ate before a show I spent a lot of time burping. It’s uncomfortable waiting […]

todayDecember 20, 2021

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12/19/21-Rod Stewart incident

(CNN) Singer Sir Rod Stewart and his son, Sean, each pleaded guilty Friday to one count of simple battery in relation to a 2019 incident outside a south Florida hotel. Police at the time said Stewart punched a security guard at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach on New Year's Eve in 2019 after his son "got about 'nose to nose' distance" from the guard's face and later shoved him. […]

todayDecember 19, 2021

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