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Holiday Music Challenge

Home for the holidays...music for the memories. So here's a little game to occupy the mind today or at least give the relatives something besides politics to debate:

Make a playlist that's sums up the musical history and pride of your home town. A time capsule for future listeners to uncover that will let them hear the evolution of the sound of your town.

Here's mine for Philadelphia:

  • John Coltrane - Blue Train
  • Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again
  • MFSB - TSOP (Soul Train theme)
  • Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now
  • William Devaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got
  • The O'jays - Love Train
  • Todd Rundgren - Hello, It's Me
  • The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
  • Hall & Oates - She's Gone
  • Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
  • Labelle - Lady Marmalade
  • The Hooters - And We Danced
  • USA for Africa - We Are The World (from Live Aid)
  • Meek Mill - Dreams & Nightmares
  • Dr. Dog - The Truth
  • The Roots feat. Erykah Badu - You Got Me
  • The War on Drugs - Under The Pressure

Cheers,

Spencer

 

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tomic601
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oh man, Sarah is the Bomb !

for me in the Winter hood ? Jackson Browne - Downhill from Everywhere 

Surfs up ! Anything Beach Boys

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@dabel A tip of the hat and an octopus on the ice for you!

@tony1954 great story. When Sarah reaches for the high notes…wow, the voice of an angel!

@tomic601 yeah, you’ve got a master chef’s pantry there for sure. Let’s go man, cook us a 5star music meal!

sns
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Ann Arbor.

MC5, Rationals, Stooges, Cult Heroes, Commander Cody, Deon Jackson, Destroy All Monsters-high school friend became drummer, Nomo, RFD Boys, The Arbors, SRC, Sunday Funnies, Saturday Looks Good, Bob Seeger, Del Shannon, Cub Koda, Brownsville Station,  SLK, Madonna.

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In San Jose California we had The Chocolate Watchband (three albums on Tower Records, home of early Pink Floyd), Stained Glass (two albums on Capitol), People (two on Capitol), The Syndicate Of Sound (one album on Bell Records), The Count Five (one album), and Fritz (the mid-late 60’s garage band whose members included Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham. Do a search to find the pic of them on stage at Mother Butler High School, Stevie in a prom dress ;-) . And then in the 70’s of course The Doobie Brothers. Before getting a deal with Warner Brothers Records, they were the house band at a biker bar up in the Santa Cruz mountains.

At one point in time Chuck Berry was living in town, as was acid-casualty Skip Spence (Moby Grape, drummer on the first Jefferson Airplane album), whom after being released from Agnew Mental Facility could be seen wandering the streets of downtown San Jose, bumming cigarettes and loose change. R.I.P. and shine on, you crazy diamond.

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@bdp24 I'm ready to watch the San Jose music documentary when you make it. So much good stuff that never got enough attention. Thanks for sharing.

@sns Michigan rocks! Time to spin some Iggy...

Cheers,

Spencer

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