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April 16: Dusty Springfield Birthday

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I’m the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
~Dusty Springfield

Britain’s greatest pop diva, …was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries…
~Jason Ankeny (allmusic.com)

Dusty Springfield. At The BBC. (55min):

A selection of Dusty Springfield’s performances at the BBC from 1961 to 1995.

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Music Calendar, Soul

April 13: Al Green was born in 1946

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I’m thankful for every moment.
~Al Green

 

 

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
~Al Green

April 13: Al Green was born in 1946

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Marvin Gaye, Motown, Music Calendar, Soul

April 10: I Heard It Through the Grapevine was recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1967

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 “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” isn’t a plea to save a love affair; it’s Marvin Gaye’s essay on salvaging the human spirit. The record distills four hundred years of paranoia and talking drum gossip into three minutes and fifteen seconds of anguished soul-searching.
~Dave Marsh (The Heart of Rock & Soul)

April 10: I Heard It Through the Grapevine was recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1967

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