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Guru

Rapper/composer Master (true name Keith Elam) initial rose to prominence because the “lyrical fifty percent” from the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, among the initial outfits that attemptedto fuse jazz with rap. After three albums by Gang Starr strike record store racks (1989’s FORGET ABOUT Mr. Nice Man, 1991’s Part of …

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The Stark Reality

Most likely the farthest away any kind of children’s record ever got, The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop descended about unwitting preteens in 1970, because of Boston’s public television station WGBH and something of its producers, Hoagy Bix Carmichael. The boy of America’s most celebrated songwriter, Carmichael conceived …

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The Beacon Street Union

The Beacon Road Union was a ’60s rock-band from Boston made up of John Wright (vocals), Paul Tartachny (guitar, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), and Richard Weisburg (drums) who moved to NY in 1967 and got swept up in MGM Information’ “Bosstown Audio” promotion — the business …

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