Lyrical: “September” (Part One)

These are songs that contain the month “September” in their lyrics.

“Wake Me Up When September Ends” is a song by Green Day, written by lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and released on June 13, 2005, as the fourth single from the band’s seventh studio album, American Idiot (2004). Produced by Rob Cavallo, the emotionally powerful rock ballad was inspired by Armstrong’s father, Andrew,

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Lyrical: “Letter” (Part One)

These are songs that contain the word “Letter” in their lyrics.

“Trilogy” is the epic title track from Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s 1972 album Trilogy, written by Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, with Lake contributing the lyrics and Emerson shaping the music’s elaborate structure. Lasting nearly nine minutes, it is widely regarded as one of the band’s finest progressive rock compositions and serves as a showcase for the trio’s

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Lyrical: “Take” (Part One)

These are songs that contain the word “take” in their lyrics.

“Fearless” is a song by Taylor Swift written by Swift and Liz Rose and originally released in 2008 on Swift’s second studio album Fearless, with production by Swift and Nathan Chapman, and it functions as a thematic mission statement for the album’s idealized vision of youthful bravery, romantic optimism, and emotional openness,

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Lyrical: “Help Me” (Part One)

These are songs that contain “Help Me” in their lyrics.

“Help Me” is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in March 1974 as the lead single from her critically acclaimed album Court and Spark. Blending elements of folk, pop, and jazz, the song features Mitchell’s signature lyrical introspection and was produced with jazz-fusion band L.A. Express,

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Radio Favorites – Before He Cheats

I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights

As a record collector, I went out and hunted down a lot of my favorites but obviously came nowhere near getting them all. These are some of the favorites that I didn’t own at the time.

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Songs That Begin and End with the Same Line (Part One)

Ziggy played guitar

I just heard a new “Diner topic” on the Jukebox Diner with Lou Simon radio show on Sirius/XM. It was to come up with songs that open and close with the same exact line of lyric. I thought this sounded fun so I started coming up with some. There are a lot more that I would have ever thought so here we go.

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Aaron Sterling

From Sesame Street to elite drummer

I was having 2021 Christmas Eve dinner with my good friends and Beaux mentioned a friend of his Matthew Sterling. He knew him from school. Matthew and his little brother Aaron lived in Garland, Texas. What caught my attention was how 5 or 6 year-old Aaron had gotten a metal trash can that he would climb into and play his childhood hero Oscar the Grouch.

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