Music Reviews: Dire Straits’ Live: 1978–1992, the Beatles’ Revamped 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, and the Weeklings Dire Straits’ The Studio Albums 1978–1991, which came out around the beginning of 2021, is excellent, but if your wallet can accommodate only one box from the group, the one to buy is the new Live 1978–1992. In fact, […]
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We Can Work It Out (An Anthology of Beatles Covers), plus the Kinks and Marcel Smith It’s a safe bet that during the Beatles era, many musicians wished they could be members of that group. Since this wasn’t possible, a lot of them contented themselves with recording the Fab Four’s songs. A wide assortment of […]
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“Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got love in my tummy And I feel like a-lovin’ you” By Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine “Yummy Yummy Yummy” (YYY) is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached No. 4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in June and […]
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Even if you’re a rabid Beatles fan (and who isn’t?), you may think you’ve seen enough movies related to the group to last a lifetime. Over the past half-century or so, the Fab Four have figured in everything from musical comedies like A Hard Day’s Night and Help to the animated Yellow Submarine to documentaries […]
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