Welcome to the Funk-n-Soul Music Blog.
Here’s where we dig into the songs, artists, albums, and stories that have stayed with us through the years. Some are old favorites. Some are forgotten gems. Some may make you stop and listen all over again.
Put on a record, pull up a chair, and stay awhile. 🎶💿
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The Beatles’ Lost Palace: The Strange Journey of “The Palace of the King of the Birds”
How a forgotten 1969 Beatles instrumental survived the breakup, resurfaced in a Rupert the Bear project,…
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Connie Converse: The Folk Singer Who Disappeared
She was writing intimate, astonishing songs before the singer-songwriter era. Then, in 1974, she drove away…
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Great Balls of Fire: The Song Jerry Lee Lewis Had to Learn the Hard Way
How a rough bar, a demanding crowd, a religious crisis, and one pounding piano helped create…
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Bad Moon Rising: The Bathroom on the Right
How one of rock’s greatest misheard lyrics became part of the Creedence Clearwater Revival legend There…
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Louie Louie: The Song the FBI Couldn’t Understand
How a simple love song became America’s most notorious three-chord scandal Sometimes a song becomes famous…
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Britney Spears vs. the Somali Pirates
How “Oops!… I Did It Again” became an unlikely weapon on the high seas There are…
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Dr. Hook: From Jersey Bars to the Cover of Rolling Stone
How a rough country band, a one-eyed frontman and Shel Silverstein created one of the strangest…
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Bennie and the Jets: The Elton John Song Nobody Thought Would Be a Hit
How a strange song, a fake concert, and an oddball vocal helped create an Elton John…
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Smoke on the Water:
The Night a Fire Wrote a Rock Classic How a flare gun, a burning casino, and…
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When a Song Grows Older With You
Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run,” and why some songs mean more at 60 than they did…
