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Fifty years ago, a deejay and a Sabres novelty song inspired Terry Pegula's Buffalo sports empire

The Athletic 03 Apr 2025
Late in the 1974-75 NHL season, Pegula relocated to rural Western New York and started hearing new voices that transformed him ....
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‘I Said I Love You First’ is an unoriginal, lackluster collaboration

The Brown Daily Herald 02 Apr 2025
The lack of cohesion in both sound and content dampens most of the songs’ ability to truly hit home for listeners ... The next song, “Younger and Hotter Than Me,” is more successful and the most gut-wrenching track on the album.
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Guero Turns 20

Stereogum 27 Mar 2025
The novelty of each individual song was quieter this time; it’s not like his long-awaited Odelay successor reprised the former’s structure by now having Beck try on a bunch of other genres, bringing in reggae or techno or something ... 0 ... 0 ... 0.
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With His Final Album, Kinky Friedman Rides Off into the Sunset

Houston Press 24 Mar 2025
Yes, he was the guy who wrote quasi-novelty songs like “Asshole from El Paso” and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.” But he also composed the haunting (despite the title) “Ride ...
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J.B. Moore, 81, producer of seminal hip-hop records

The Buffalo News 22 Mar 2025
J.B. Moore, an advertising man from suburban Long Island in New York who wrote the lyrics to one of rap's first hits — Kurtis Blow's 1979 novelty song, "Christmas Rappin'" — and with a partner, Robert Ford, produced that rapper's ....
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Review: British Musical Farce ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Is Anything But Dead on Arrival

New York Observer 21 Mar 2025
The hideously complicated and not-at-all certain logistics of this spy mission yields a surprisingly rich bounty of quick-change comedy and novelty songs, giddily directed by Robert Hastie ... The song ...
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