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The pseudonym of Cleveland, Ohio-born actor and songwriter Richard “Dick” Monda, Daddy Dewdrop is most beneficial known for his 1971 bubblegum novelty hit “Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ THINK IT?S GREAT).” A previous child acting professional, Monda was a prolific songwriter and maker through the 1960s and ’70s, documenting and liberating …

Another instrumentalist even more widely connected with spirit, pop, funk, and R&B, however highly respectable by jazz music artists, Chuck Rainey’s been a star electrical bassist because the ’60s. While Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke presented flashy, blistering playing and contacted electric bass as though these were improvising on the …