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RADIOSCOPE RAW Podcast: Our Uncut 1993 Interview with Mint Condition (Listen)
*When you think of the R&B band Mint Condition, your very next thought is likely the first line of "Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown...
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Street Named For The Ohio Players in Hometown of Dayton, Ohio / VIDEO
*In early April, “The Ohio Players” were honored when a former stretch of Hillcrest Avenue in Dayton, Ohio, was renamed “Ohio Players Way.” (Scroll...
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Prince Got His First Top 10 Hit 38 Years Ago Today [EUR Video Throwback]
*Although Prince was definitely a superstar before May 21, 1983, it wasn't until afterward that he was also on the radar of the mainstream...
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Marvin Gaye’s Iconic Album What’s Going On Remembered by Sister Zeola 50 Years After its Release
*On May 21, 1971, 50-years ago, Motown Records (Tamla) released Marvin Gaye’s iconic album “What’s Going On.” Yet, when it was released, many at...
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Things You Probably Never Knew About Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’ [EUR Video Throwback]
*Four years before Adele was even born, Lionel Richie went into Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles and planted his flag on the song...
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RADIOSCOPE RAW Podcast: Our Uncut 1993 Interview with Patrice Rushen (Listen)
*When we caught up with Patrice Rushen in 1993, her contract with Elektra Records had expired six years prior and it had been a...
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The Final Encore of Tina Turner’s Last Concert Happened On This Day in 2009 [EUR Video Throwback]
*Tina Turner thought she was ready to retire in 2000. She launched a farewell trek that year dubbed "Twenty-Four-Seven Tour." It was that year's...
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Open Up Shop: This DMX Track Just Re-Entered the Hot 100 and Became His Highest Charting Single [EUR Video Throwback]
*While three classic DMX hits have re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart, one of them has now become the late rapper's highest charting Hot 100...
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Eleven Days After the Assassination of MLK, Aretha Franklin Records ‘Think’ [EUR Video Throwback]
*Her voice was as bold and thunderous as her civil rights support quiet and discreet.
Jesse Jackson wrote of Aretha Franklin in USA TODAY after...
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April 5, 1968: That Time James Brown ‘Saved’ Boston [EUR Video Throwback]
James Brown already had a concert scheduled at Boston Garden on April 5, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis...
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Why March 30th Should Be Called ‘Ashanti Day’ (EUR Video Throwback)
*On this day in 2002, Ashanti was literally all over the place.
The then 21-year-old was cooking with gas on the Hot 100 charts appearing...
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National Recording Registry Nabs Music from Janet, Nas, Cliff, LaBelle, Albertina Walker & More [EUR Video Throwback]
*It's that time again. The Library of Congress has selected a new crop of important audio recordings to preserve in its National Recording Registry,...
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Yaphet Kotto, Veteran Film and TV Legend, Dies at 81 [EUR Video Throwback]
*Yaphet Kotto, an actor best known for his performances in “Alien,” the James Bond film “Live and Let Die” and the television series “Homicide:...
News
Did You Know Elvis Presley Had a ‘Love Jones’ For One Black Woman in Particular?
*During Elvis Presley’s singing, recording, and performing career, one that stretched parts of three decades, there were countless stories that he didn’t particularly like...
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James Brown, Angie Stone, B.I.G., ‘House Party’, ‘Walk This Way’ (EUR Video Throwback, March 9th Edition)
*A number of significant events happened on March 9th in music history - some positive, some negative, one involving busted teeth, all worth a...
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