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Facebook Serendipity, a Christmas Album and More, Much More

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.13.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Dengue Fever, Mills Music, Eddie Fisher, Robert Maxwell, Louis Prima, Jack Mills, Marty Mills, Brill Building, Lena Horne, Ernie-Kovacs, Jerry Keller, Cab Calloway, Edie Adams, Irving Mills, Carl Sigman, Video, Fifty News
Michael Sigman

I recently Facebook-friended Josh Mills, who reciprocated right away -- because, I assumed, he remembered me fondly from many years ago when we were both music journalists.

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The Wonderful World of Irony

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.06.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Alison Mosshart, Brill Building, Cole Porter, Alanis Morissette, Bob Thiele, Bob Thiele Jr., Sons of Anarchy, Bob Dylan, Sons of Anarchy Tv Show, Bob Thiele Jr Sons of Anarchy, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

The 50-year journey of "What a Wonderful World" shows the versatility of pop songs that encourage interpretations far afield from whatever the writers might have had in mind, if indeed they had anything particular in mind.

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HuffPost Exclusive: Jim Bianco "Sinners," Plus a Conversation with The Crystals' La La Brooks and PBS Premieres Rock, Pop & Doo Wop

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Cotton Comes to Harlem, Melba Moore, Patty Duke, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Tina Turner, Diane Keaton, Isaac Hayes, The Crystals, Myrna Gerard, The Beatles, Blondie, Richard Nixon, Hair, Elvis Costello, Quincy Jones, Galt McDermott, B.B. King, The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Jack Nitzsche, Jim Croce, Ronnie Spector, Two Gentleman of Verona, Ashford & Simpson, Bobby Womack, Leslie Gore, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Razor & Tie, Tom Waits, La La Brooks, Bernadette Peters, Ossie Davis, Darlene Love, Brill Building, Cher, U2, The Blossoms, Tommy West, Valerie Simpson, Jim Bianco, The Neville Brothers, American Idol, Ray Charles, Barbara Austin, Dee Dee Kenniebrew, Jeff Barry, James Rado, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Presented here is an exclusive HuffPost premiere of the Jim Bianco single, "Sinners," which just might become your new favorite party anthem.

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'I'm a Believer': A Playlist for the Late, Great Don Kirshner

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Neil Diamond, Paul Shaffer, Brill Building, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, The Monkees, Don Kirshner, Neil Sedaka, Don Kirshner Dead, Entertainment News
David Wild

If you think Kirshner was just some guy who Paul Shaffer impersonated, you would be very wrong. He was a central figure in the Brill Building era that brought the world lots of the most sublime popular music of the 20th century.

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From New York to Heligoland: Conversations With Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja and The Hundred In The Hands, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusives Pts. 4 & 5

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jacque Renault, Martina Topley-Bird, Young Marble Giants, Phil Spector, Neil Daidge, KT Tunstall, Robert Del Naja, Massive Attack, Guy Garvey, Jason Friedman, Crazy Horse, Damon Albarn, Temper Trap, Lakota, Brill Building, Thievery Corporation, Eleanore Everdell, The Boggs, Richard X, Native Americans, Dar Williams, Timbaland, The Hundred in the Hands, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tim Goldsworthy, Delphic, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Usually Massive Attack's projects are almost like a song cycle. What was the approach while making your the new album, Heligoland?

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A Hotel, a Phone Number and a Son

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Glenn Miller, Twin Peaks, Hotel Pennsylvania, Billboard, Dorsey Brothers, Milli Vanilli, Andrews Sisters, Penn Plaza, Jack Robbins, Decca, Mckim, Elie Hirschfeld, Heptet, Carl Sigman, The Simpsons, Gary Shandling, Artie Shaw, Brill Building, Mead & White, American Dad, Bugs Bunny, Johnny Mercer, Carol Burnett, Lindy's, Great Neck, Rca-Victor-Bluebird, The Muppets, Benny Goodman, Brian Setzer, Helen Forrest, New York News
Michael Sigman

The 15 Penn Plaza plan will bring down the legendary Hotel Pennsylvania. The hotel, built in 1919, has a rich history, an essential part of which is bound up with my father's first hit as a songwriter.

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HuffPost Video Premiere: Pegi Young's "Starting Over," plus a Conversation with Jimmy Webb

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: George Martin, Bones Howe, Glen Campbell, Billy Joel, General Motors, Armin Steiner, Fred Mollin, Hank Williams, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Carole King, Arif Mardin, Ernest Tubb, Brill Building, Gerry Goffin, David Geffen, Art Garfunkel, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Pegi Young -- yes, wife of legendary artist Neil Young -- has a new video of her song "Starting Over" and HuffPost has the premiere of the music clip.

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Free Flick Fridays: Grace of My Heart

Tribeca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brian Wilson, Grace of My Heart, Mi Vida Loca, Brill Building, Carly Simon, Carole King, Allison Anders, Tribeca Film, Free Flick Fridays, Joni Mitchell, Illeana Douglas, Julie and Julia, Entertainment News
Tribeca

While Julie & Julia was a joyful duet between Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, the bummer about the film is that it reminds us about what an amazing movie a straight-up biopic of Child would've been.

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