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Remembering Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse made beautiful music and while she will be remembered as much for her problematic behavior on stage from drinking and drugs, her music is so much bigger than the soap opera life she led for the last few years. Amy’s powerful voice and singing style brought us something new and reminded us of…
Links to this postHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
WOW!! “Harry Potter makes box-office magic for the last time” as reported by Grady Smith in EW News. The last book made into a movie has again, broken box office records. It holds the record for highest single day gross, highest domestic opening weekend ( $169M) and highest global opening weekend ($478M). All total, the…
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Its tour season and Beyonce is jet setting all over the globe to support her new album “4”. There were rumors that the album wasn’t going to be successful, when the first single was leaked early in June and only made it to #29 on the Billboard Hot 100. Beyonce has the last laugh though…
Links to this postSummer Songs
Hot time summer in the City….Summertime and the livin is easy….Tell the teacher we’re surfin..so many great summer songs! Billboard has compiled a list of Top 30 Songs of Summer that you might enjoy. Great videos with some of the original performers. These songs have stood the test of time! Top 10 Summer Songs…
Links to this postClarence Clemons
World renowned saxophonist, Clarence Clemons died on Saturday at age 69. He died of a stroke. Clarence had been a member of the Bruce Springsteen E Street Band since the 1970’s. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that “Mr. Clemons’ first encounter with Springsteen has become E Street Band lore. In most tellings, a lightning storm…
Links to this postReal Books Sheet Music
OnlineSheetMusic and Sher Music Co. are proud to announce the publication of The Digital Real Books, Volumes 1, 2 and 3!!!! Now you can download over 650 songs from Sher Music Company’s world-renowned books! These are compilations from the Real Books collection. Buy a single sheet for $1.95 all the way up to $59.95 for…
Links to this postLady Gaga
Lady Gaga is killing it with her latest album, “Born This Way”! This is only the 17th album to sell over a million copies in the first week, when SoundScan started tracking in 1991. Her album sold 1,108,000 copies in the first week, even with the Amazon fiasco which couldn’t handle the traffic and couldn’t…
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95 million votes were cast for the American Idol Grand Finale, showing that American Idol’s still got it! The show has been declining in viewership since 2007, but this year with a change in judges and younger than ever contestants, American Idol gained viewers for the first time in three years and looks like it…
Links to this postSheet Music for Billboard Top 100
We have the sheet music! Its always interesting to see what is happening on the Billboard charts. Adele has been moving steadily up the charts for 18 weeks and made it to #1 last week. “Rollling in the Deep” was sung on Glee and Adele sang it on Dancing With the Stars. E.T. by Katy…
Links to this postPatriotic Song Trivia
How Much Do You Know about Patriotic Songs?? Here are three trivia questions to check your knowledge…Don’t peek! 1. What was the name of the poem the lyrics from the “Star Spangled Banner” were taken from? 2. Who wrote “This Land is Your Land”? 3. “My Country Tis of Thee” is the same melody as…
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