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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2325
Song of the Day: Bring Your Love, words and music by Kevin Saunderson, Roy Holman, Shanna Jackson, Stuart Price, and Madonna, is a single from Madonna’s fifteenth studio album, “Confession II,” which has been released today. Holman and Jackson get a song credit because of the sample from Inner City‘s…
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Continue reading →: Only in New York
A proposal at the top of the Empire State Building. With a banner reading: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.“ Trying to top “King Kong“, “Sleepless in Seattle“, and “An Affair to Remember“! Postscript (2 July 2026): The exchange on NYPD radio…
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Continue reading →: Stonewall Pride: In Voice and Song
On this date in 1969, a rebellion began that unfolded over six days, a landmark in the battle for human freedom and personal autonomy & authenticity. In the wee hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-owned gay bar in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, was raided by police for the umpteenth time.…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2323
Song of the Day: The Producers (“I Wanna Be a Producer”), words and music by Mel Brooks, is only one of the highlights from this hilarious 2001 musical, which starred Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. The musical is an adaptation of the 1967 film with Zero Mostel and was subsequently…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2322
Song of the Day: I Remember Clifford, composed by saxophonist Benny Golson, is an ode to jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown who died tragically at the age of 25 on this date in 1956. First recorded by Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce, the song has become a jazz standard. Brown was…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2321
Song of the Day: I Can’t Make It Another Day features the words and music of Lenny Kravitz, who recorded this song in a duet with Michael Jackson. It was originally slated to appear on Jackson‘s 2001 album “Invincible” but was dropped from the setlist. Kravitz recorded another version of…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2320
Song of the Day: Burn features the words and music of Ryan Tedder, Greg Kurtin, Noel Zancanella, Brent Kutzle, and Ellie Goulding, on whose 2013 album “Halcyon Days” this track appears. The album is a reissue of her second studio album, “Halcyon“. The song went to #1 on the Billboard…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2319
Song of the Day: Go New York, Go New York, Go, words and music by Jessie Itzler and Dana Mozie, has been the theme song of the New York Knicks since 1993. We’ll be hearing lots of it today as the 2026 NBA Champs make their way down New York’s…
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Continue reading →: The New York Knicks are the NBA Champions!
The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs, 4 games to 1, to win their first NBA Finals in 53 years. This Game 5 Knicks victory, 94-90, was thrilling—as was their miraculous triumph in Game 4, where they fought from 29 under to go ahead in the final 1.2…
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Continue reading →: Smooth Jazz Criminal
Jazz pianists Peter Martin and Adam Maness have two wonderful YouTube channels, “You’ll Hear It” and “Open Studio Music,” where they not only dissect significant pop, jazz, and R&B recordings, but offer their own interpretive renditions along the way. Their analyses run the gamut, from Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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