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Vice President Kamala Harris makes a special appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” to discuss the gun violence epidemic and Congressional inaction. Vice President Harris tells Jennifer Hudson that the United States needs reasonable gun safety laws and that assault weapons have no place on American streets. The Vice President also discusses he...

Scenes from the movie Encanto (2021)—which is set somewhere in Colombia and takes place (mostly) sometime in the 1950s—in which numerous characters break up and make up go remarkably well with a Gene Pitney song from the early 1960s about breaking a heart... and mending it again.

While most people remember the Commander Cody version of this song, Johnny Bond's version (which closes out this album) predates it by more than a decade.

Jimmy Wakely's second song on this album—also having to do with infidelity, albeit at more of a distance—has one wondering whether the kind of songs he liked to perform ever made his wife a bit doubtful and uneasy about his fidelity to her. (Of course—contrary to what the song says there at the end—if in the alternate reality he envisions, ...

This third somewhat famous Tex Ritter tune about a cowboy who claims his spurs are (somehow) what's keeping him from getting married and settling down with any of his potential love interests helps round out the album.

Speaking of stuff that might raise a few eyebrows these days, this song also rather dates itself with its decidedly naive lack of consideration for the possibility that inhaling the rough equivalent of bus fumes into one's lungs might endanger one's health. Not at all coincidentally, this made an excellent theme for the opening credits...

Maybe because the previous song is a hard act to follow, this next song is one of the most famous old cowboy tunes known to man, with Roy Rogers being one of the most famous old cowboys to have sung it. (Of course, its mention of "the red man" does rather date it to a time when you could casually refer to America's native tribes t...

While I've heard other versions of this song—some by this very same group, in fact—the only place I've ever heard this version (with its awesome introduction) is on this album; which is a pity, since in my opinion, this is the absolute best performance of this song ever recorded.

Perhaps to make up for Jimmy Wakely's rather controversial song being the previous track, this more pious and reverent piece by Rex Allen is a song that would fit nicely in a church on Sunday. Curiously, the other versions of this I've heard all omit the fourth verse for some reason.

This old cowboy song is one of the major reasons why old country & western music is often considered to consist mainly of "drinking and cheating songs" as Alan Jackson and George Strait's rendition of "Murder On Music Row" once put it. This first of two Jimmy Wakely songs on the album certainly qualifies as a song ab...