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Nothing today, sorry.

Barbara Strozzi - Che si può fare

A seventeenth-century composer with whom I was unfamiliar.

RIP Billy Sherrill

Pitchfork has a good overview here. Here's an example of his work.

Johnny Rivers - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu

Today would have been Larry Knechtel's seventy-fifth birthday. He was one of the most active of the Wrecking Crew, the great LA session musicians of the sixties. Here he plays the piano, one of his many instruments, on a song was originally recorded by Huey "Piano" Smith.

Charlie Shavers - Undecided

Cilla Black - Step Inside Love

RIP Cilla Black, born Priscilla White but rechristened by her manager Brain Epstein. This song was written by Paul McCartney.

The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died