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	<title>Traditional Pop Standards: The Music of Your Life</title>
	
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	<description>American popular music has helped to define us as a culture, to bind us together and is a constant reminder of our national identity. Traditional pop music has been used as a common interest to unite disparate groups. Now for the first time you can listen to your favorite popular American songs and discover traditional pop standards that will become your favorite songs.</description>
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		<title>Jo Stafford Sings Jambalaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was born in Coalinga, California, to Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna York Stafford, a distant cousin of World War I hero Sergeant [...]<br/>
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		<title>Tony Bennett “A Swinging Christmas”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tony Bennett records his first holiday CD in forty years since his 1968 release of &#8220;SNOWFALL,&#8221; and this latest project, &#8220;TONY BENNETT: A SWINGIN&#8217; CHRISTMAS Featuring The Count Basie Big Band,&#8221; is destined to become an annual favorite of the season.
Featuring 11 tracks, Tony swings such classics as &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas,&#8221; &#8220;Winter Wonderland,&#8221; [...]<br/>
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		<title>Bobby Darin, an Extraordinary Talent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Starting at the beginning is always a good idea. In May 1936, on the 14th day, during the last quarter moon of the month, Bobby Darin Was born. He was born with rheumatic fever to a poor Italian family. The fever damaged his heart and would cause him strife throughout his entire life. Having only [...]<br/>
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		<title>Ann-Margret and Al Hirt – My Baby Just Cares for Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In October of 1960 both Ann-Margret and Al Hirt were booked into the Dunes Hotel Lounge in Las Vegas, NV.  This engagement was before A-M had been formerly discovered by George Burns and well before Al recorded his signature sound at RCA Victor.

After that engagement Ann-Margret with her Suttle Tones went back to North Western [...]<br/>
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		<title>Ella Fitzgerald – Get Ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just purchased a bulk lot of old jazz and r&#38;b records and didn&#8217;t think twice when I saw that Ella Fitzgerald was one of the artists in the lot. The cover of the Reprise album &#8220;Ella&#8221; was very unassuming.  I did assume it was just a compilation of songs from previous recordings.  Until I [...]<br/>
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		<title>Popular Standards Redefined</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In my opinion, a pop standard is any song that has been performed or recorded by several people. Something that when you hear the words you are able to sing along. Or for lack of a better term we could refer to them as covers. Some may disagree with me stating that a pop standard, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Jack Jones, Traditional Pop Legend, Plays UK During 50th Anniversary Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The traditional pop vocals superstar is as popular in the UK as he is here at home in the good old USA. The 2008, 50th Anniversary Tour includes stops in London, Manchester, Northhampton as well as other cites in the UK.

You can read more about the UK tour here: UK CONCERT: Jack Jones.
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		<title>Sammy Kaye Sings “The Old Lamplighter”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 05:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Song History
“The Old Lamp Lighter” is a popular American song by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon. It was published in 1946 and was first recorded by Sammy Kaye, reaching #1 on the Billboard Charts in December of 1946. It was also major country-pop hit for country act The Browns in 1960.

“The Old Lamplighter” Lyrics
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		<title>Johnny Mercer Sings “Personality”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 05:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Another giant of American popular music that came out of the Big Band/Swing era is Johnny Mercer. Mercer first achieved notoriety and success as a lyricist on collaboration with Hoagy Carmichael, who at the time had already some measure of success with the song “Star Dust”. The two spent a year working on the song [...]<br/>
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		<title>Perry Como Prisoner of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Micheal Rivera</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perry Como]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the 1930s and 40s big bands were all the rage. The advent of radio made it possible, for the first time, for music lover’s national wide to listen to the popular bands of the time. Swing music became the dominant form of Jazz and established itself as mainstream popular American music.

A big band typically [...]<br/>
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