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[Purchase] It may be Tony Bennett's signature tune, but "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" has been recorded by t...

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Frank Zappa: Whippin' Post If you're going to focus on the link between Leftovers and Thanksgiving, this first post may seem ...

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[ purchase ] I am pleasantly surprised that, on this, the last day of our Stage Names theme, no one has tackled David Bowie. Bowie, in...

Blind Boy Grunt : John Brown [ purchase ] Robert Zimmerman, better known these days as Bob Dylan, signed to Columbia Records in Octob...

   In the mid 60's his friends convinced Arnold George "Gerry" Dorsey to change his name to Engelbert Humperdinck, after ...

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Billy Joel: Allentown [ purchase ] My second post for Star Maker Machine, back in 2008, was about the difference between a protest so...

I have to admit that I cannot remember ever being at a bar for last call. Which is not a joke—you know, like “if you remember the sixt...