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Lead Belly
Song of the Day: Also known as In The Pines, and Black Girl, today we move onto another traditional song variously interpreted, dark and brooding, haunting in its melody, and simmering with suspicion and jealousy
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Suede in 1994
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Auteurs track mixing the premature deaths of Lenny Bruce and Rudolph Valentino, two more from the 90s Britpop pioneers about two more stars who died young – Marilyn Monroe and James Dean
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The Auteurs, fronted by Luke Haines (left)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's track by Black Box Recorder, let's turn to a track by member Luke Haines, whose prolific output includes a wide variety of indie, new wave, and wistfully comedic songs
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Eartha Kitt in Las Vegas in the 1950s
Song of the Day: One flower-based song, three great voices doing their versions, all intense, intimate and intoxicating. Let's drink all of them in, interpreting this song written by James Shelton in 1950
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Dolores O'Riordan
Song of the Day: Another music star death prompts today's choice, and a shock one at that – the 46-year-old Dolores O'Riordan, whose passion shines out in this 1994 number from the album No Need To Argue
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Jeff Buckley in full swing
Song of the Day: Following yesterday's Massive Attack song Teardrop, sung by Elizabeth Fraser, another work of soaring power and passion, and also tragic portent, by the man with whom she had an intense relationship
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The Goats … old-school political Philly hip hop
Song of the Day: Continuing our loose, four-legged bearded animal theme, a change of pace going back to 1992, and one of the forgotten and much under-rated hip hop bands of the period, a Philadelphia trio
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