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Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Record Company in the 1960's was the Sound Of Young America, and many of the famous early Motown hits were by female recording�
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This week, My Place looks back in time for popular songs that celebrate the fathers in our lives. Memorable recordings by Eddie Fisher, Mary Martin and�
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Sylvia Moy is a member of the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. During the 1960's she wrote many hit songs working for Motown Records in Detroit, and she owns the�
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This week, My Place revisits an old theme with a new take and many new examples. Married Couples Who Recorded Together looks over the past half-century�
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The songwriting team of Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett not only wrote many popular hit songs of the pre-rock & roll era, but also over 40 songs that were�
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The Twist was the biggest dance craze of the early rock & roll era, taking teenage America by storm and catapulting a then-twenty-year old singer with the�
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"The Twist" was the biggest dance craze of the early rock & roll era, taking teenage America by storm and catapulting a then 20-year-old singer with the�
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On Jan. 20, 2015, singer and songwriter Rose Marie McCoy passed away at age 92. As a tunesmith, her first original song was recorded in 1946 and her most�
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From a tin-top shack in Oneida, Arkansas, to the center of New York’s songwriting and music publishing industry, the Brill Building, was the journey of�
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Several weeks ago, My Place presented an hour of vintage popular songs about houses. Since then, My Place listeners have written with many excellent�