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Wednesday 3/15/23 2pm ET: True Confessions Day

True Confessions Day takes place annually on March 15. We all have secrets, whether something big or small. Sometimes the secrets can make you feel stressed and guilty. If a secret is compromising your inner peace and causing distress in your relationships, then you should go ahead and confess it. Confessions are the simplest way to alleviate guilty. Since honesty is the best policy, use True Confessions Day to confess and be honest. Being able to confess is not just a matter of honesty but also courage. So, suspend all judgment and guilt and spill your deepest secrets on True Confessions Day.

HISTORY OF TRUE CONFESSIONS DAY
The act of confession is ancient and might have originated about 3,000 years ago. Confessing one’s secrets can be traced to the “Vedas,” the oldest Hindu scriptures. It’s a common aspect in most world religions and their sacred texts, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, confession is perhaps most commonly associated with Catholicism, where believers can admit their sins to the priest and seek absolution.

In addition to religion, confession is also associated with law and criminal prosecution. In fact, the Catholic Church’s Inquisition suggested confession as part of the legal process in Europe in the Middle Ages. Suspected heretics were investigated by inquisitors, sometimes using torture to elicit confessions. Confession can still be important during an investigation or prosecution, but courts are less likely to rely on confessions today as they tend to be far less reliable. While the origins of confession belong to the realms of religion or law, it also refers to the general confession of secrets and personal guilt.

Thomas and Ruth Roy from Wellcat Holidays created the first True Confessions Day in 2016. True Confessions Day is a way of encouraging us who are keeping secrets to confess them. The idea is that a designated day of confession will help us relax and alleviate any feelings of guilt. We can relieve ourselves of these negative emotions rather than hold onto feelings of shame, anxiety, and fear. True Confessions Day aims to honor confession as a healthy practice to allow growth and communication.

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Monday 3/13/23 8pm ET: Feature LP: Lionel Richie (1982)

Lionel Richie is the debut solo studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on October 6, 1982, on Motown Records. Originally intended as a side project at the suggestion of Motown, it was recorded and released while Richie was still a member of the Commodores; he left the group shortly after the album’s release. The first single from the album, “Truly”, topped the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single “You Are” reached number four, and “My Love” reached number five. The album reached number one on the Cashbox albums chart on December 11, 1982.

In 2003, Lionel Richie was re-released as part of a remaster series that saw two additional tracks added: a solo version of “Endless Love” and an instrumental version of “You Are”. Eagles member Joe Walsh provided the guitar solo for the song “Wandering Stranger”.

  1. “Serves You Right” 5:14
  2. “Wandering Stranger” 5:38
  3. “Tell Me” 5:32
  4. “My Love” 4:08
  5. “Round and Round” 4:57
  6. “Truly” 3:26
  7. “You Are” 5:05
  8. “You Mean More to Me” 3:08
  9. “Just Put Some Love in Your Heart” 1:27

Lionel Richie – lead vocals, vocal arrangements, backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 5-8), acoustic piano (4, 6, 8), Fender Rhodes (7), rhythm arrangements (7)
Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes (1), Roland Jupiter 8 (1), Minimoog (1), arrangements (1)
Clarence McDonald – Fender Rhodes (2)
Michael Lang – acoustic piano (2, 9), Fender Rhodes (9)
David Cochrane – Prophet-5 (3), electric guitar (3, 7), synthesizer bass (3, 7), backing vocals (3, 7), arrangements (3, 5), acoustic piano (5), bass guitar (5), saxophone solo (5)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (3, 5, 7), vocoder (3, 5, 7)
Bill Payne – Fender Rhodes (6)
Thomas Dolby [uncredited] – synthesizer programming (7), backing vocals (7)
Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar (1, 2, 6)
Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar (2)
Joe Walsh – guitar solo (2)
Richie Zito – guitar solo (3)
Darrell Jones – electric guitar (4, 5, 7), acoustic guitar (8)
Tim May – acoustic guitar (6)
Nathan Watts – bass guitar (1)
Joe Chemay – bass guitar (2, 6, 8)
Nathan East – bass guitar (4)
John Robinson – drums (1, 5, 7)
Leon “Ndugu” Chancler – drums (2, 4)
Paul Leim – drums (3, 6, 8)
Lenny Castro – percussion (1)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (2, 5, 7)
Rick Shlosser – percussion (5)
Gene Page – arrangements (2, 6, 9)
Harry Bluestone – concertmaster (2-9)
James Anthony Carmichael – arrangements (3, 4, 5, 8), string arrangements (3, 7), horn arrangements (7), rhythm arrangements (7), celeste (8)
Howard Kenney – backing vocals (1, 5, 7)
Richard Marx – backing vocals (1, 2, 7, 8)
Deborah Thomas – backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 7)
Jimmy Connors – backing vocals (3)
Kenny Rogers – backing vocals (4), BGV arrangement (4)
Kin Vassy – backing vocals (4)
Terry Williams – backing vocals (4)
Louise Di Tullo – flute (3, 6, 9)
Art Maebe – French horn (3, 4, 6, 8, 9)
Richard Perissi – French horn (3, 6, 9)
Henry Sigismonti – French horn (3, 6, 9)
Jim Atkinson – French horn (4, 8)
David Duke – French horn (4, 8)
Brian O’Connor – French horn (4, 8)
William Green – saxophone (5, 7)
Ernie Watts – saxophone (5, 7)
Lew McCreary – trombone (4, 5, 7, 8)
Bill Reichenbach, Jr. – trombone (4, 5, 7, 8)
Gary Grant – trumpet (4, 5, 7, 8)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (4, 5, 7, 8)
Walter Johnson – trumpet (4, 5, 7, 8)
Warren Luening – trumpet (4, 5, 7, 8)
Bob Findley – trumpet (5, 7)
Don Ashworth – woodwinds (4, 8)
Gene Cipriano – woodwinds (4, 8)
Gary Herbig – woodwinds (4, 8), saxophone (5, 7)
Larry Williams – woodwinds (4, 8)
Jesse Ehrlich – cello (2, 3, 6, 9)
Armand Kaproff – cello (2, 3, 6, 9)
Paula Hochhalter – cello (2, 6, 9)
Dennis Karmazyn – cello (2, 6, 9)
Arni Egilsson – double bass (2, 6, 9)
Buell Neidlinger – double bass (2, 6, 9)
Ray Brown – double bass (4, 5, 7, 8)
Morty Corb – double bass (4, 5, 7, 8)
Gayle Levant – harp (2, 4-9)
Alan DeVeritch – viola (2, 3, 6, 9)
Allan Harshman – viola (2, 3, 6, 9)
Virginia Majewski – viola (2, 3, 6, 9)
Gareth Nuttycombe – viola (2, 3, 6, 9)
Bonnie Douglas – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Assa Drori – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Endre Granat – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Joy Lyle – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Donald Palmer – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Henry Roth – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Sheldon Sanov – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Jack Shulman – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Paul Shure – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Mari Tsumura-Botnick – violin (2, 3, 6, 9), strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Charles Veal, Jr. – violin (2, 3, 6, 9)
Rollice Dale – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Henry Ferber – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Ronald Folsom – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
William Henderson – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
William Kurasch – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Erno Neufeld – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Nathan Ross – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Myron Sandler – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
David Schwartz – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Fred Seykora – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
David Speltz – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)
Tibor Zelig – strings (4, 5, 7, 8)

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Friday 3/10/23 2am ET: Feature Live LP: Kool & The Gang – Live (1998)

Kool & The Gang Live, released 1998

1 Victory 4:56
2 Ladies Night 3:43
3 Fresh 1:57
4 Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It) 2:28
5 Hollywood Swinging 4:57
6 Too Hot 9:29
7 Joanna 3:33
8 Cherish 5:54
9 Let’s Go Dancin’ (Ooh La La La) 4:35
10 Get Down on It 2:10
11 Celebration 4:44
12 Tonight 4:22
13 Emergency 3:49
14 Jungle Boogie 3:25

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Thursday 3/9/23 11am ET: Feature Artist: Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price (March 9, 1933 – May 3, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter, record executive and bandleader, known as “Mr. Personality”, after his 1959 million-selling hit, “Personality”. His first recording, “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”, was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Price and his wife resided in Westchester County, New York. He died from diabetes complications on May 3, 2021, at a long-term care facility in New Rochelle, New York, aged 88.

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Thursday 3/9/23 10am ET: Feature LP: Jeffrey Osborne (1982)

Jeffrey Osborne is the debut studio album by American singer Jeffrey Osborne. It was released by A&M Records on May 18, 1982. His solo debut after leaving his band L.T.D. for a solo career, Osborne worked with George Duke on the majority of the album, though legal issues had initially prevented him from signing his solo deal with A&M for a whole year.

  1. “New Love” 4:10
  2. “Eenie Meenie” 4:23
  3. “I Really Don’t Need No Light” 3:40
  4. “On the Wings of Love” 4:00
  5. “Ready for Your Love” 3:59
  6. “Who You Talkin’ to?” 3:51
  7. “You Were Made to Love” 3:11
  8. “Ain’t Nothin’ Missin'” 4:08
  9. “Baby” 4:18
  10. “Congratulations” 2:56

Jeffrey Osborne – lead vocals (all tracks), vocal arrangements (all tracks), rhythm arrangements (1, 4, 5, 7-10), backing vocals (2-10), handclaps (5, 6, 8), horn arrangements (5, 8), vocoder (6)
George Duke – rhythm arrangements (1, 4, 8, 10), acoustic piano (1, 4, 8, 10), synthesizers (2, 3, 7), acoustic piano solo (2), handclaps (5), horn arrangements (5, 8, 10), vocoder (6), bells (7)
John Barnes – electric piano (2, 7), organ (5)
Bobby Lyle – electric piano (3)
Ron Kersey – rhythm arrangements (5), electric piano (9)
Michael Sembello – guitar (1-4, 10), rhythm arrangements (2)
Charles Fearing – guitar (3, 5)
Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (7)
David T. Walker – guitar (7, 9)
Louis Johnson – bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8)
Abraham Laboriel – bass (4, 10)
Larry Graham – bass (6, 9)
Steve Ferrone – drums (all tracks)
Paulinho Da Costa – cowbell (1), percussion (2, 3, 5, 6, 8), handclaps (6, 8)
Sheila E. – handclaps (5)
Tony Maiden – handclaps (6, 8)
Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone solo (1)
Larry Williams – tenor saxophone (1, 5, 6, 8), flute (10), piccolo (10)
Lew McCreary – trombone (1, 5, 6, 8)
Gary Grant – trumpet (1, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (1, 5, 6, 8, 10), horn arrangements (1, 5, 6, 8)
Bobby Martin – French horn (2, 10)
George Del Barrio – string arrangements (2, 4, 7, 9)
Paul Shure – concertmaster (2, 3, 4, 7, 9)
David “Hawk” Wolinski – rhythm arrangements (3)
Len Ron Hanks – rhythm arrangements (7)
Arif Mardin – orchestration (10)
Lynn Davis – backing vocals (3, 8, 9)

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Friday 3/3/23 9pm ET: Feature LP: Donna Summer – She Works Hard For The Money (1983)

She Works Hard for the Money is the eleventh studio album by Donna Summer, released on June 13, 1983 by Mercury Records. It was her most successful album of the decade, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and its title track became one of the biggest hits of her career and her biggest hit of the decade, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. (40th Anniversary)

  1. “She Works Hard for the Money” 5:19
  2. “Stop, Look and Listen” 5:52
  3. “He’s a Rebel” 4:22
  4. “Woman” 4:19
  5. “Unconditional Love” 4:42
  6. “Love Has a Mind of Its Own” 4:16
  7. “Tokyo” 4:15
  8. “People, People” 4:09
  9. “I Do Believe (I Fell in Love)” 4:52
  10. “She Works Hard for the Money” (Club Mix)
  11. “She Works Hard for the Money” (Instrumental)
  12. “Unconditional Love” (Club Max)
  13. “Unconditional Love” (Instrumental)

Donna Summer – vocals
Musical Youth – vocals (5)
Matthew Ward – vocals (6, 7), backing vocals
Dara Lynn Bernard, Mary Ellen Bernard, Roberta Kelly and Pamela Quinlan – backing vocals
Michael Omartian – pianos, synthesizers, guitars (2), Simmons drums (2, 5), drum programming (2), accordion (9)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming
Marty Walsh – guitars (1, 7, 8), guitar solo (4)
Ray Parker Jr. – rhythm guitars (4)
Jay Graydon – guitars (6, 9)
Nathan East – bass guitar
Mike Baird – drums
John Gilston – Simmons drum programming
Lenny Castro – congas
Gary Herbig – saxophone (1, 7)
Dick Hyde – horns
Charlie Loper – horns
Chuck Findley – horns
Gary Grant – horns
Jerry Hey – horns
Assa Drori – concertmaster

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Monday 2/27/23 7pm ET: Feature LP: Vicki Sue Robinson – Never Gonna Let You Go (1976)

Never Gonna Let You Go is the debut album by singer-songwriter Vicki Sue Robinson, released April 9, 1976. The album includes the hit “Turn the Beat Around”. In 2010, Gold Legion Records remastered this album.

“Turn the Beat Around” 5:35
“Common Thief” 5:39
“Never Gonna Let You Go” 4:22
“Wonderland of Love” 3:46
“We Can Do Almost Anything” 3:11
“Lack of Respect” 3:03
“When You’re Lovin’ Me” 4:17
“Act of Mercy” 4:23

Vicki Sue Robinson – Lead & Background Vocals
Bhen Lanzaroni – Keyboards
Bob Rose, Dick Frank – Guitar
Stuart Woods – Bass
Jimmy Young, Roy Markowitz – Drums
Carlos Martin – Congas
George Devens – Percussion
Ray Armando – Congas, Percussion
Alan Raph, Tom Malone, Tony Studd, Wayne Andre – Trombone
Burt Collins, Joe Shepley – Trumpet
Art Kaplan – Baritone Saxophone, Flute
George Young – Tenor Saxophone, Flute

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Monday 2/27/23 8am ET: Feature Artist: Fats Domino

Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949. His first single “The Fat Man” is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies. Domino continued to work with the song’s co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream hits beginning with “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.

Domino was shy and modest by nature but made a significant contribution to the rock and roll genre. Elvis Presley declared Domino a “huge influence on me when I started out” and when they first met in 1959, described him as “the real king of rock ‘n’ roll”. The Beatles were also heavily influenced by Domino.

Four of Domino’s records were named to the Grammy Hall of Fame for their significance: “Blueberry Hill”, “Ain’t That a Shame”, “Walking to New Orleans” and “The Fat Man”. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. The Associated Press estimates that during his career, Domino “sold more than 110 million records”.