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  • Eddy Raven : JOE KNOWS HOW TO LIVE

    by Frank Shankly
    Eddy Raven's JOE KNOWS HOW TO LIVE was released in May 1988. It is the second single from his compilation album The Best of Eddy Rave. The song was...

  • Rick Springfield : LOVE SOMEBODY

    by Frank Shankly
    LOVE SOMEBODY was the first single from Rick Springfield's soundtrack album "Hard to Hold." Hard to Hold was a 1984 musical drama directed by Larry...

  • Barbara George : I KNOW (YOU DON'T LOVE ME NO MORE)

    by Frank Shankly
    Barbara George began singing in her Baptist church choir as a teen and writing her own songs. Her friend Jessie Hill wrangled Barbara an audition w...

  • Gene Garf : MY BEST TO YOU

    by Frank Shankly
    Begun in 1963, Hi Hat Dance Records was owned and operated by Merl Olds and his wife Delia Olds. They used Hollywood studio musicians to play squar...

  • Baltimora : LIVING IN THE BACKGROUND

    by Frank Shankly
    LIVING IN THE BACKGROUND is the title track and third single from Italian new-wavers Baltimora's debut album of the same name. The song reached num...

  • Balance : BREAKING AWAY

    by Frank Shankly
    Early '80s rockers Balance were fronted by Peppy Castro, formerly of Blues Magoos. In addition to Castro were guitarist Bob Kulick and keyboardist ...

  • Jerry Lee Lewis : ONE HAS MY NAME (THE OTHER HAS MY HEART)

    by Frank Shankly
    ONE HAS MY NAME (THE OTHER HAS MY HEART) was penned in 1948 by singing cowboy Eddie Dean, his wife Lorene Dearest Dean, and Hollywood songwriter Ha...

  • Jerry Lee Lewis : DRINKIN' WINE, SPO-DEE-O-DEE, DRINKIN' WINE

    by Frank Shankly
      Stick McGhee recorded DRINKIN' WINE, SPO-DEE-O-DEE, DRINKIN' WINE, a jump blues styled-song, in January 1947 in New Orleans for Harlem Records, ...

  • Gary Taylor : TEASE ME

    by Frank Shankly
    As a background vocalist, Gary Taylor appeared on The Whispers' ROCK STEADY, and MY FLAME for Vanessa Williams. As a songwriter and producer, Taylo...

  • Bobby Taylor : WHY PLAY GAMES

    by Frank Shankly
    Part of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, Playboy Records had its most successful period between 1972 and 1975, with artists like Barbi Benton, Ha...

  • Bobby Taylor : I CAN'T QUIT YOUR LOVE

    by Frank Shankly
    A fantastic piece of disco fire from a solo Bobby Taylor (of Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers), with arrangement credits going to master-orchestra...

  • Johnnie Taylor : I AM SOMEBODY PART I

    by Frank Shankly
    Happy to share the wonderfully positive lyrics from this one:"Old Martin was somebodyBefore he ever started march on WashingtonOld Bobby was somebo...