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I Love That Song! #7: “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?” by The Beatles
Buried near the end of side two of the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled masterwork (more commonly known as the White Album), and coming right before the sweetly sung romantic ballad “I Will,” “Why Don’t We Do...
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I Love that Song! #8: “Don’t Be Mad at Me,” by the Davenports
The subtly pounding, lithe piano run which appoints itself at the start of the Davenports’ achingly beautiful new song, “Don’t Be Mad at Me,” now playing in rotation on Pure Pop Radio, is joined by a...
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I Love that Song! #9 (Special Valentine’s Day 2015 Edition): “Leanne,” by the...
Regarding the Davenports’ tremendous new power pop number, “Leanne,” now playing in rotation on Pure Pop Radio, the following is mostly speculation. Well, it’s mostly speculation on my part, weighed...
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I Love that Song! #10: “Grouch of the Day,” by Squeeze
“Grouch of the Day,” from Squeeze’s Ridiculous (IRS, 1995) If life does indeed imitate art, and Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook’s “Grouch of the Day” represents truth, then all in the world who stress...
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I Love that Song! #11: “Where the Bands Are,” by Bruce Springsteen
If power pop fans ever needed a reason to believe in Bruce Springsteen, if only for three minutes and 46 seconds, “Where the Bands Are” is that reason–a balls-to-the-wall power pop number stacked high...
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I Love that Song! #12: “She’s My Baby,” by the Traveling Wilburys
Taken from the album Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3, “She’s My Baby” finds the mysterious supergroup with their feet ensconced firmly in audacious rock and roll territory and their tongues planted firmly...
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I Love that Song #13: “America,” by Simon and Garfunkel
by Alan Haber One of Paul Simon’s best songs, lyrically astute and honorably charged, “America” is the third track on Simon and Garfunkel’s album Bookends, fading up out of the long goodbye of “Save...
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I Love that Song! #15: “Rockin’ My Life Away” by Jerry Lee Lewis
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s one of those records that just sounds right. It’s 1979, and Jerry Lee Lewis, with Bones Howe in the producer’s chair, is working his sweaty way through a Mack...
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I Love that Song! #16: “Your Smiling Face” by James Taylor
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s just five or maybe six notes ascending and pounded out to merge into traffic at the start, a way of getting to what amounts to a chorus of a sort, except it’s more a...
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I Love that Song! #14: “Mrs. Vandebilt” by Paul McCartney and Wings
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted 12.01.16) So you’re in the jungle, you’re living in a tent, you have zero financial obligations, you have all the time in the world, and you just plain...
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