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more blond than you
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Quentin Tarantino stated the soundtrack for American Graffiti influenced his music choices in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He "went nuts. It had Wolfman Jack DJ stuff filtered through. That was probably my first soundtrack album."
January 6, 2017: The movie Lost & Found, featuring David Spade imitating Neil Diamond singing "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," opened in theaters.
The song "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin, performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, broke Whitney Houston's 14-week run at the top of the Hot 100 with "I Will Always Love You."
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August 5, 1983: The movie "Risky Business," starring Tom Cruise, was released in the USA. In an iconic scene, Cruise's character dances in his underwear to Bob Seger.
Produced by Dr. Dre, "We Made You" was the lead single from Relapse, Eminem's first album for four and a half years.
"Take the Long Way Home" is the third US single off Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. According to its composer Roger Hodgson, the song deals with how the desire to go home can go both ways:
September 11, 1971: Donny Osmond took the top spot on the US singles chart for the next three weeks with "Go Away Little Girl."
In 1962, the married duo of Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote “Go Away, Little Girl” for the bland and unthreatening teen idol Bobby Vee. Vee’s version wasn’t a hit, but “Go Away Little Girl” did hit #1 when the unctuous-sounding grown man Steve Lawrence released his own version of it.
Donny Osmond
August 25, 1939: The movie Wizard of Oz was released. Judy Garland starred and sang "Over the Rainbow."
In this classic musical fantasy, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land "somewhere over the rainbow."
"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity, first performed in 1966.
June 26, 2000: Coldplay released the single "Yellow" from their album Parachutes.
“Yellow” is one of those simplistic and minimalist songs that have endured through time for well over a decade now.
June 13, 1998: The soundtrack to the movie City Of Angels hit Number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
The soundtrack to City of Angels served as a promotional tool for Alanis Morissette's second album, following Jagged Little Pill, and the Goo Goo Doll's sixth album, Dizzy Up the Girl.
May 27, 1986: Journey released their ninth album, Raised on Radio.
Nothing lasts forever — not even the incredible streak of hits Journey started in the '80s. And as the second half of the decade dawned, the band was falling apart.
April 4, 1915: Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters was born in McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
Muddy Waters was a second-generation blues man, his father Ollie Morganfield was also a talented musician and guitarist. By 17, Muddy had chops enough to chase the hellhound riffs of Robert Johnson and Eddie James "Son" House,” Jr.
Muddy Waters
March 15, 1963: Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Born Bret Michael Sychak on March 15, 1963, in Butler, Pennsylvania. At the age of 6, Michaels was diagnosed with diabetes. Throughout his career, he has taken insulin and measured his blood sugar levels to manage his illness.
Bret Michaels
October 17, 1957: The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, premiers at Loews State Theatre, where Elvis worked as an usher five years earlier.
Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business.
As a singer, guitarist and harmonica player, he served his apprenticeship in various blues bands before Jethro Tull formed in 1967, the same year in which Anderson took up the flute, on a whim.
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