The Ed Sullivan Show – Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Ed Sullivan Show – Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Ed Sullivan Show Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics (Rhino-2002) Your tolerance of the variety show format is equally proportional to the amount of hours you’ve viewed MTV since 1981. More than two decades have passed since the rest of television adapted to the now-taken-for-granted style of the quick-edited, odd-camera-angled, sound-bit, irony-heavy entertainment presentation. You are … Continue reading

Michael McDonald – Motown (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Michael McDonald – Motown (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Michael McDonald – Motown (Motown) Michael McDonald does have one of the finest white soul voices in the world. With the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan and over twenty years of solo work his instantly identifiable baritone became a part of the pop music lexicon. So, it makes a certain amount of sense that on his … Continue reading

Vanessa Paradis – Au Zenith (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Vanessa Paradis – Au Zenith (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Vanessa Paradis – Au Zenith (Barclay/Universal-France) In the United States, Vanessa Paradis is probably best known as Johnny Depp’s live-in girlfriend. Other people may know her as the Chanel model or an actress. But in her native France, she is an institution.  Paradis first made waves when she was only 14, with her 1987 international hit … Continue reading

Axelle Red – Alive (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Axelle Red – Alive (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Axelle Red – Alive (Virgin-France) I might have never heard of Axelle Red if I weren’t channel surfing one August night last year in the Sofitel Méditerranée in Cannes. With my admittedly rudimentary skills in the French language, I was looking for something, frankly, which I could understand.  That’s when I stumbled upon an hour-long interview … Continue reading

Raphael Saadiq – Instant Vintage (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Raphael Saadiq – Instant Vintage (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Raphael Saadiq – Instant Vintage (Universal) Raphael Saadiq has logged well over a decade in the music biz as one of the brains behind Tony! Toni! Toné! and last year’s supergroup Lucy Pearl.  But other than a few solo soundtrack singles over the years like “Ask Of You” (from Higher Learning) and “Get Involved” (from The PJ’s), he … Continue reading

Jill Sobule – Too Cool…
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Jill Sobule – Too Cool…

Jill Sobule Too Cool… by  Jay S. Jacobs It’s Friday evening at the Upstage; a new Philadelphia venue built in a beautiful old bank building that has been used as a Goth nightclub for the last several years. Lloyd Cole, the Scottish cult-singer who turned some heads with his 80s band the Commotions, is unpacking … Continue reading

Jimmy Webb – All He Knows…
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Jimmy Webb – All He Knows…

Jimmy Webb All He Knows… by Ronald Sklar If you are under thirty and have even the slightest retro sensibility, chances are you are familiar with the classic pop songs of Jimmy Webb, and good for you. And if you are over thirty, endlessly toiling in an office and music appreciation is just a faint … Continue reading

Peabo Bryson – Unconditional Love (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Peabo Bryson – Unconditional Love (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Peabo Bryson – Unconditional Love (Private Music) On the first new disk in five years by the soul balladeer extraordinaire, it seems like time has stood still. It is amazing how Unconditional Love feels completely contemporary and yet holds the seductive allure of Bryson’s older work. Bryson’s smooth soul love songs still put the wannabes out now to … Continue reading