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Infatueighties: “Yah Mo B There”
Chances are, if you were anywhere near a radio station from roughly 1980-1987, within thirty minutes you’d hear something from either James Ingram or Michael McDonald. The two Midwestern guys (Ingram was from Akron, OH while McDonald repped St. Louis) were very fond of the duet and/or the background support vocal, and their list of collaborators reads like a laundry list of Eighties hitmakers: Michael Jackson, Shalamar, Kenny Loggins, Donna Summer, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, […]
Is The World Ready For Qui?
Jerry Rice is many things. He is the greatest wide receiver in NFL history. He is a three time Super Bowl Champion. He is a great self marketer. And he’s a dancing pioneer. A Dancing With The Stars pioneer that is. His high finish on the television show opened up the flood gates for guys like Emmitt Smith to reinvent Hammer Time and for Jason Taylor to look at Hollywood as a possible career after […]
The Timberlake Curse?
The commonly accepted theory is that, generally speaking, musicians don’t make good movie stars and actors don’t make musicians. Occasionally there’s an exception (Will Smith has done an admirable job turning himself from the Fresh Prince into the new Tom Hanks, Jared Leto has a platinum album, J. Lo was hitting on both cylinders for a second), but it’s rare to find someone who has twin success on the silver screen and in the recording […]