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(June 25, 2026) – Turns out the brilliant man whose vision was responsible for the band Billboard recently named the “best R&B group of all time” was not always a sympathetic figure.   Instead, Maurice White is revealed to be a complicated man — far more complex than the astrologically focused, Afrocentric, pop-minded music hero that I and millions of others came to love over decades of…

(June 24, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 57!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses.  Each clue has point values — no dollars!  The player(s) with the most points gets bragging rights. This round’s category — “57 Varieties!” — is a mixed bag of clues associated with the number 57.  We provide the clues, you guess the correct…

(June 23, 2026) – Not since Taylor Swift’s album-release blitzes temporarily monopolized the Billboard Hot 100’s upper reaches has the chart’s top ten been so thoroughly dominated by women.  But this week’s chart accomplishes something more impressive than those Swift takeovers where just one artist dominates. Every song in the June 27 top ten is either performed by a woman or named for…

(June 22, 2026) – Four years after scoring a No. 1 hit and establishing herself as one of pop music’s most relevant stars, Lizzo is confronting a commercial downturn so severe that her latest album failed to reach the Billboard 200 and has produced no Hot 100 singles.  For an artist who recently seemed untouchable, the speed and scale of the collapse – likely due to a combination of factors –…

(June 21, 2026) – Long before television gave us Cliff Huxtable, and shortly after TV’s James Evans, Sr. became the iconic father of Norman Lear’s “Good Times,” James Brown delivered his own funk-laden portrait of a dad who commanded respect. That picture came in 1974 with “Papa Don’t Take No Mess,” the sprawling, nearly 14-minute funk masterpiece that became the final No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop hit of…

(June 16, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 56!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses.  Each clue has point values — no dollars!  The player(s) with the most points gets bragging rights. These are all in fun and open to everyone!  Last week’s theme — “I Can’t Drive 55!” generated nine respondents, including one newcomer — all of whom…