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<title><![CDATA[[HD] Andrew Garcia - Straight Up *Acoustic Version* // American Idol Hollywood Round]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:48 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Best performance of American Idol so far this season. Better than the original by Paula Abdul.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Al Jarreau - Moonlighting ''Theme'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:50:04 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Putting together a post on the best TV romances for <a class="blipLink nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.popliterate.com,">www.popliterate.com,</a> and that made me think of David & Maddie!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paula Abdul - Straight Up]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Straight Up, kids.  Paula Abdul used to sing!  Tonight's "unplugged" version in the American Idol auditions was even better than this one, though.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Terrified by Katharine Mcphee! (NEW SONG)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:33:01 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Didi the Waitress topped this version in her American Idol performance tonight.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jazz Divas - Ella Fitzgerald - Lullaby Of Birdland]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:34 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Y'know, Lilly sang this on American Idol tonight, and I think I liked Lilly's version better.  Better than Ella Fitzgerald?  Wha...?  Yes, I said it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jazz Divas - Ella Fitzgerald - Lullaby Of Birdland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Y'know, Lilly sang this on American Idol tonight, and I think I liked Lilly's version better.  Better than Ella Fitzgerald?  Wha...?  Yes, I said it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1973 Grammys, Record of the Year. Killing Me Softly. Bonus points if your kids know this was written about Don McLean.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[America - A Horse With No Name]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1972 Grammys Best New Artist, America. This one sounds something you'd hear on a psychodelic Sesame Street animation segment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1972 Record of the Year. Roberta Flack. The first time ever I heard this song, I hated it. And my opinion hasn't changed.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Carole King - It's Too Late]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1971 Grammys, Record of the Year: Carole King, It's Too Late]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1970 Record of the Year, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Your kids should study Paul Simon lyrics in school. I'm being serious.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Billboard - Aquarius Let The Sunshine In - The 5th Dimension]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA['69 Record of the Year, Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In. To this day, the 5th Dimension counts this as 2 Grammys, not 1.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Roger Miller, Little Green Apples]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:23:48 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['68 Song of the Year, Little Green Apples, Bobby Russell. Here's Roger Miller's version. Who says the 60s were edgy?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:07:01 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1968 Record of the Year, Mrs. Robinson. Play 'em the song, but hide the movie from the kids until they're older.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:40:40 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1967 Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tell your kids about the Beatles. It'll make your parents happy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5th dimension - up, up and away]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:36:51 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1967 Record & Song of the Year: Up, Up & Away. I just flashed back to my 4th-grade class's big music program. We sounded better.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:27:05 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1966 Grammys, Record of the Year.  Sinatra, Strangers in the Night. A requirement for any pop literacy course.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Taste of Honey]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:16:30 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1965 Record of the Year. Herb Alpert, A Taste of Honey. Lyricists apparently were on strike for much of the 1960s.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Henry Mancini - Pink Panther Theme]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:13:12 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1964 Grammys, Best Instrumental Composition. More Mancini. Catchiest. Song. Ever.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:06:41 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1964 Grammys, Song of the Year. Hello, Dolly! Play this for your kids when they try to sulk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[09. Stan GetzJoão Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema (45 rpm issue]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:54:58 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1964 Grammys, Record of the Year. Girl from Ipanema. Seriously? Were the voters on drugs? Don't answer that.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Henry Mancini - The Days Of Wine And Roses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:51:02 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1963 Song and Record of the Year: More Mancini. Days of Wine & Roses. Lyrics are SO 1959.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sammy Davis, Jr. - What Kind of Fool Am I?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:43:19 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1962 Grammys, Song of the Year: What Kind of Fool Am I? Wow, '62 must've been depressing. No wonder people smoked pot.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:31:35 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1962 Grammys, Record of the Year. Kids, you just need to know the title line from this one. The rest of it's not really that great.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Henry Mancini - Moon River 1961]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:22:17 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1961 Grammys, Song and Record of the Year. Mancini's Moon River. Only Grammy winner with a Branson theater named after it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1960 Grammys, Best Female Vocal. Mack the Knife *again?* I guess they really were all about conformity back then.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Percy Faith-Theme From A Summer Place]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Grammys '60, Record of the Year. Back in the day, kids, people didn't need to use WORDS in their songs to convey a message.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA['59 Song of the Year. I've said it in to many a school board: I don't care if kids know the real Battle of New Orleans, but this song is essential.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Domenico Modugno - Volare (Nel blue dipinto di blu)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first-ever Grammy Record of the Year (1958). Kids, this is from back when Americans all spoke Italian.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[100 Greatest TV Themes - Peter Gunn (1958-1961, Music By Henry Mancini)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:01:59 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's Grammy Day!  Henry Mancini's "The Music From Peter Gunn" won Album of the Year in 1958, the first year of the Grammy Awards.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Best part of tonight's Cougar Town?  REO Speedwagon in the background!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra - Someone To Watch Over Me]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ignore the boy-band version you heard on American Idol this week.  Give your kids the Sinatra version.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[She didn't wear mirrors on her face like Theo did during his American Idol audition, but Pat Benatar rocked!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[James, Etta - At Last]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If your kids liked this week's American Idol audition version of "At Last," you owe it to them to let them hear Etta James sing it.  Amazing.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Best performance of this season's American Idol auditions so far? Maddy Curtis and "Hallelujah."  Here's the Jeff Buckley version in her honor.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Men Without Hats - Safety Dance]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you cross little people and a bad Renaissance Fair? The Safety Dance, of course]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sam Cooke - What A Wonderful World This Would Be]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:37:04 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When your children defend their pop literacy to a teacher, in the face of a D+ in science, they should have an appropriate response.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:33:33 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rocky is the man. And Survivor is the band. And your kids should know both of them, or they're going to grow up to be sissies. Even the girls.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:34:05 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'll be honest. I don't care if your kids know about the real Battle of New Orleans. But if they don't know the Johnny Horton song, shame on you.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doris Day - Que Sera Sera]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:04:39 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Never mind that the opening bars sound like they're being played by a Midway carnival ride in Terre Haute. Que Sera Sera is a classic!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:50:30 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If your child hears the name Brandy, and doesn't respond with the sentence, "Ah, she was a fine girl," you're not doing your job as a parent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nena - 99 luftballoons]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:46:04 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[99 Luftballoons: close runner-up for quintessential 80s song. But its peacenik message disqualifies it in the age of Reagan.  Sorry 'bout that, Nena.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Police - Every Breath You Take]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:09:07 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your kids probably won't turn out to be stalkers if they listen to this song. But even if they do, it's worth the risk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra - Iv,e Got You Under My Skin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:52:51 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If your kids don't know this one, they might as well be Communists. Seriously. The Russkies hated this song more than they hated Levi-Strauss.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyndi Lauper - Girls just wanna have fun]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:48:09 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The quintessential 80s song: upbeat, catchy, frivolous, and synthesized. If your kids know only one 80s song, this should be it.]]></description>
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