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Babylonian Tiles

The instrumental sound from the Babylonian Tiles is a swirling, keyboard-heavy mixture of psychedelia and goth rock, with occasional touches of blues and a good dash of soul. More than this complicated stew floats the vocals of creator and music group mastermind Byrna Golden, whose design has been in comparison …

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Young Scrap

Born in LA, singer/rapper Small Scrap earned his name because of his bad habit of scrapping, or fighting with each other. Since he previously spent the majority of his pre-teen years learning faucet and contemporary dance in his aunt’s dance studio room, Scrap needed to show he was difficult to …

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Wilson Phillips

Wilson Phillips 1st appeared in 1990 flaunting a harmony-rich audio that helped send three singles using their 1st album — “HANG ON,” “Launch Me personally,” and “You’re in Like” — to the very best from the Billboard graphs. Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips comprised the vocal trio, whose …

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Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner is well-known for creating her zany, larger-than-life people on Saturday Evening Live, and later, on her behalf own power of personality in her fight ovarian tumor, which she went open public with in her autobiography, IT CERTAINLY IS Something. Her Not-So-Ready-for-Prime-Time times earned her the opportunity to display …

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Sammy Fain

Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Fain wrote effective pop strikes and show music for Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s through the 1950s. Blessed in N.Con.C. on June 17, 1902, Fain continued to become prolific author of traditional pop music which were oft-covered by vocalists through the years. The composer got his …

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School of Fish

This Boston-based college-aged quintet outclassed their postmodern contemporaries having a striking, hook-laden 1991 debut. Their sophomore recording was less amazing. Frontman Josh Clayton-Felt released a solo recording, Inarticulate Character Boy, in 1996; he passed away January 19, 2000 of testicular malignancy at age 32.

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Sammy Lerner

Sammy Lerner represents that 1 amount of separation between Popeye the Sailor and Marlene Dietrich. A composer and lyricist, Lerner experienced a profession of some 50 years in music and films, although his best-known tunes dated from your 1930s. Given birth to in Romania in 1903, Lerner found America along …

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Johnny Green

American pop composer, bandleader, and pianist Johnny Green wrote nearly all his hit songs through the 1930s, including his most well-known tune, “Body and Soul.” Blessed in 1908 in N.Con.C., Green continued to attend the brand new York Army Academy, and Harvard, where he constructed “Coquette” with lyricist Gus Kahn, …

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Freewheelers

Roots-rock combo the Freewheelers shaped in LA in 1989, buying a lineup of singer/guitarist Luther Russell, bassist Jason Hiller, pianist Chris Joyner, keyboardist Dave Sobel, and drummer John Hofer ahead of saving their self-titled 1991 Geffen label debut. Despite great reviews, the recording didn’t make much industrial impact, in support …

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