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SportsJustice (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the people in charge. That's what we're doing today as the Astros prepare to hand Mike Hampton the ball tonight against the San Diego Padres. When last season ended, Drayton McLane had approved a $120-million payroll for 2009. That's how much Ed Wade and Tal Smith estimated it would cost to keep the Astros together. Wade's first off-season priority was the...
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Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 05/04/2009
photos by Jacob Blickenstaff Dr. Ike "Before Kansas City was recorded by everyone from the Beatles to Peggy Lee, the song was first released in 1952 as K.C. Loving by an obscure Houston pianist named Little Willie Littlefield. The single...
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The Record Robot (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
:: Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay :: :: Lies :: :: Call of The Wild :: :: Megalomania :: :: Cactus Fruit :: :: You're A Dancer :: :: And You Know :: :: Bandit :: :: Get Down Woman :: :: Visions Through an Empty Glass :: While searching through the new arrivals bin at Amoeba one fine day, I did a double take when I laid eyes on this one. I could tell immediately it was a "
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Wilbert Harrison put the City of Fountains in everybody's mind, and himself in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, with his 1959 recording "Kansas City."And now, nearly 50 years later, I find myself humming the tune as I prepare to head out to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Fall Conference in ol' K.C. Complete Story »...
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Waxidermy (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
John & Ed Strickland seem to have been something of a none to one almost hit wonder group, it's actually been pretty tough to find any information on these guys or this 45. The actual A side is a nice mid/slow version of Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City Blues" that draws equally from country [...]
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Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I’ll have to confess that I didn’t know much about Wilbert Harrison when I first heard him singing “Kansas City,” and in all honesty I don’t think that I made much of an effort to find out at that time. In those days I was mostly just into enjoying the music, and his signature song [...]
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
… of Jerry Leiber. He’s 75. Leiber and partner Mike Stoller are in the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. By the time they were 20, in just three years of working together, their early songs had been recorded by a collection of true all-stars in the rhythm and blues genre including [...]
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PowerPop (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental amanuensis Hop-Sing and I are off to Philadelphia to spend the weekend at some convention or another. To be honest, I'm not sure what it's all about, but the little yellow devil has all but begged me take him there, and the sight of him on the floor prostrate, with his little froggy loins akimbo, always melts my heart. So -- anybody know...
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St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
If you're going to Kansas City, you might take a plane, you might a train, but even if you have to walk,* first you should be reading Plastic Sax , StLJN's jazz site of the week. Much like what StLJN does for St. Louis, Plastic Sax's pseudonymous blogger "Happy In Bag" covers all aspects of the Kansas City jazz scene, with frequent updates including weekly news and notes plus previews of...
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composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Your birthday today: You are exceedingly honest, kind-hearted, loving and fond of children. You adapt yourself readily but should curb your tendency to criticise others. Your love is deep and your home dear to you. The same can be said of Sanderson Irish Keithley, so don't go criticising him (or criticizing, for that matter). Instead, why not celebrate this day with him and these other notables': Richard,...
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Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
Hip-O Select continues its vital mail-order-only series by collecting all of James Brown's 1966 and 1967 singles.
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Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
In the vast world of music - or at least in the portion that exists between my ears - there’s a type of song that I call a “bell-ringer”. You know the kind I mean — songs that you can't identify at first, but that definitely ring a bell. Everyone has them but might call [...]
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The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
Tales from the Woods regulars, or Woodies as we are known, met for one of our occasional meet-ups last night - a few pints in a pub (in Soho) followed by a Chinese nearby. After the usual toasts to music greats who have died since the last time we met, someone suggested that we should all pick our favourite track of all time. This eventually became our three favourite tracks as we went round the table...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2007
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Elvis's "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is'," Ben E. King's "Stand By Me," Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City," The Coasters' "Yakety Yak," and the record-setting Broadway musical revue, "Smokey Joe's Café" -- these and dozens of other R&B and rock and roll hits...
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