8/13/16 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Diana Ross & The Supremes with The Temptations

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Diana Ross & The Supremes with The Temptations is the 1968 Emmy-Nominated TV special starring Diana Ross with Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong with The Temptations.
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8/12/16 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez SONG OF THE DAY: Jodeci – Freek’N You

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Freek’n You is a song by R&B group Jodeci recorded for their third album The Show, the After Party, the Hotel (1995). Continue reading

8/11/16 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: Mary J. Blige – No More Drama

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No More Drama, the fifth studio album by R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige. The album was released on August 28, 2001 by MCA Records in North America. No More Drama,  was certified triple Platinum. Continue reading

8/7/16 SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Propellerheads featuring: Shirley Bassey – History Repeating

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History Repeating, written in 1997 by Alex Gifford, and originally performed by the Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey. The track is a fusion of several different styles of big beat, breakbeat and jazz combined with the powerful vocals of Shirley Bassey.  Continue reading

8/7/16 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Hezekiah Walker- Better

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Better, Hezekiah Walker’s 14th album dedicated to the multiracial group that kicked off the modern Pentecostal movement at a rundown horse stable on Azusa Street in the center of a Los Angeles ghetto in 1906. The album follows Walker’s induction to the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame. Continue reading

8/4/16 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: We are the World- USA for Africa

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We Are the World is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide. Continue reading

8/4/16 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: USA for Africa – We are the World

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We Are the World is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide. Continue reading

8/3/16 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Millie Jackson- Phuck U Symphony

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Phuck U Symphony is one of the best-known tracks on Millie Jackson’s 1892 live album, Live And Outrageous. Jackson continues to include it in her live shows to this day. Continue reading

8/1/16 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Rihanna – Goodnight Gotham (Bonus Track)

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Goodnight Gotham, Rihanna’s newest  music video is one of the shortest (and sweetest) of her career. Shot on the fly in Dec. 2014, the minute-long clip begins with the singer exiting a promotional shoot for the LP in Paris’ Trocadéro Square as she admits she’s about to do “the craziest thing” she’s ever done: run (in slow-mo) toward a pack of fans, who hoist her high into the night sky as the Eiffel Tower frames looms overhead.  Continue reading