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10 Amazing Child Prodigies Across Time

A child prodigy is defined as someone under the age of 13 who is capable of excelling in at least one area of skill at a level that is considered to be an adult level in that field. There are child prodigies...

4 comments    children music people
YOUR AUTHOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS PROWESS DURING A BRIEF CATERPILLAR PHASE 77

My rock band White Summer

I have published eight previous Hubs about my life as a musician and in five of them featured links to videos of my band on YouTube. I was a professional singing drummer for 22 years. I gave it up as...

86 comments    rock music victoria rock bands
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Old Time Mountain Music

 When we think of old time mountain music, we conjure up images of washtub string bands and unshaved hillbillies with fiddles. We assume that the isolation of mountain life made the music there static and...

13 comments    music songs mountains
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A dozen songs to make you think

I am, above all things, a music lover. That’s not to say I possess any musical ability whatsoever, unless you count memorizing every word to every song I’ve ever heard. That makes me the Rain Man...

4 comments    entertainment life music
Don't Forget to Thumbs up!81

The 450 Greatest Songs of the 70s

This is The Funktual 450aka~~~~ A list of the Intergalactic Library's greatest human songs of the 1970s! They are in order of their popularity throughout the universe. While most things from Earth and it's...

10 comments    entertainment music video
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250 Essential Old School Hip-Hop Records (1979-1990ish)

This is a comprehensive list of songs from the Pre-Skool Hip-Hop era that are essential to all B-Boys, DJs and plain old nostalgia lovers. These songs helped the art form grow during it's infantile stages and...

42 comments    entertainment education music
Right Now I'm trying to appear cool with my motorcycle and my converse while being straddled by something even uglier than my co-star Kim Catrall!81

The 100 WORST Number 1 Songs of the 80s.

This is now my third WORST SONG list. I released the first one: on my first day on the HUB and you all seemingly loved it. The second came out as a GUILTY PLEASURE list and it was right off the top of my head....

27 comments    entertainment music rock
Four carolers dressed in traditional garb with seasonal colors sing Christmas songs.75

The History of Christmas Carols

The Christmas Carols as we know them today are popular holiday songs that people sing from doors to door during the holidays. They are mainly sung in the weeks and days leading up to Christmas day....

1 comment    christmas songs christmas holiday
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS IS WHERE METHOD MAN GOT HIS NAME FROM!84

The Greatest Samples & Breaks in Hip-Hop History

Hip-Hop samples are fragments of recorded music extracted from old recordings for the use of making new songs. They mostly come from 60's soul and 70's funk records. The term "crate-digger" refers to DJs who...

25 comments    entertainment music videos
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Samples and Breaks: (Part 5)

Welcome Back to a Place You've Never Been Before... This series has been very rewarding for me personally, as many DJs have contacted me and asked me to do different samples for them. I also have a vast...

10 comments    music video videos
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