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• Song of the Day #1,237: ‘Nessun Dorma’ – Luciano Pavarotti

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  Almost all of my opera knowledge comes from a Pavarotti album my parents owned when I was a kid — The World’s Favourite Tenor Arias (pictured at right). We would listen to this album while shooting pool in the finished basement of our northern Virginia house. And while I expect [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,236: ‘Vesti La Giubba’ – Luciano Pavarotti

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  Next up in Opera Week is perhaps the most celebrated aria in history, and certainly one of my very favorites. Leoncavallo’s ‘Vesti La Giubba’ wraps up the first act of Pagliacci, a tragic tale of a clown and his unfaithful wife. In this aria, lead character Canio discovers his wife’s [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,235: ‘O mio babbino caro’ – Maria Callas

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  I’ve touched on almost every genre over my 1,200+ Songs of the Day but to this point I’ve never featured any opera. This week, no doubt to the consternation of many, I will remedy that. I’m not an opera fan, by any means… the only complete opera I’ve ever sat [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,234: ‘Slip Slidin’ Away’ – Simon & Garfunkel

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  Because the Concert in Central Park was originally intended to be a Paul Simon solo gig, many of the featured songs are from Simon’s solo albums. I imagine the setlist was changed a bit once Garfunkel’s participation was assured (‘Old Friends,’ for example, had to have been an addition meant [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,233: ‘Old Friends/Bookends Theme’ – Simon & Garfunkel

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  In September of 1981, a planned Paul Simon solo concert turned into a generation-inspiring event when Simon invited Art Garfunkel to join him onstage in Central Park. Half a million people gathered on the Great Lawn to witness the historic reunion. The resulting album is a lovely, touching document of [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,232: ‘The River’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  I have a pretty good working knowledge of all of Bruce Springsteen’s albums, even the ones I don’t own, but 1980′s The River has always been a mystery to me. And reading up on it for today’s blog entry, I’m fascinated by what I’m missing. The River is a double [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,231: ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  Bruce Springsteen’s fourth album, 1978′s Darkness on the Edge of Town, was released three years after Born to Run, a period during which Springsteen was kept out of the studio due to a legal skirmish with his former manager. Rather than capitalizing on his new-found fame by cutting a crowd-pleasing [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,230: ‘Born to Run’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  Bruce Springsteen’s first two albums were critical smashes but they didn’t reach a mainstream audience. Even ‘Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),’ which has become a concert and classic rock radio staple, was ignored at the time. But in 1975, all that changed with the release of Born to Run. Springsteen’s third [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,229: ‘Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  My renewed interest in Bruce Springsteen dates back to that trip to the Spec’s used bins that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. The fourth album I bought (for less than $5) was Springsteen’s sophomore release, The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle. I’ve been addicted to [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,228: ‘Growin’ Up’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  I enjoyed my three-week dive into Tom Petty’s discography so much that I’ve decided to give it another shot with an American rocker whose star shines even brighter — Mr. Bruce Springsteen. As with Petty, I’ll dedicate a week at a time to The Boss with unrelated weeks in-between. I’ve [...]
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