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Muzik Detention

Smiley Enterprises Inc.

DJ Triple A, breaks down the story behind the song and artists’ as well as their influences. *NEW EPISODES ON THE 2nd & 4th week of every month.* All shows are produced by Smiley Enterprises Inc

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01:19:55

What I Know About Earth, Wind & Fire

Muzik Detention ·

2025/09/18

What I know about Earth, Wind & FireI thought could be told in under a minute,But I was wrong.This group has countless accolades, awards,achievements….And then there’s the “ME” relationship.I was introduced to Earth, Wind & Fire in 1975when I noticed the “That’s The Way Of The World” albumresting against my old man’s record player.Pop (my dad) didn’t buy albums,he usually would buy “45’s”…or singles—Some of you may not know what a “45” is,and because he was a working musician,pop only purchased

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01:27:25

Yacht Rock… What is it?

Muzik Detention ·

2025/07/29

About 70 years ago, The Blues gave birth to two genres of music: R&B (Soul) and Rock & Roll.One made for black listeners, one for white listeners. The United States was segregated back then and Jim Crow and his laws were real! But we’ve discussed this already.The question is, What is Yacht Rock?This class breaks down Yacht Rock into bite sized pieces, but there are a few rules that you should know. First, Yacht Rock is not a genre, there is no such thing, not for real-for real.Second, Artist that

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01:13:44

Kent State Massacre — going to hell in a handbasket

Muzik Detention ·

2025/06/22

The Kent State Massacre When I was 8 years old, my biggest fear was Vietnam. I had two uncles that went over there, only one returned. The big kids in my neighborhood wore “black power” and “freedom” buttons and patches on their jackets, they talked about the was in Vietnam and of the stories they heard, and at eight years old, those stories, it didn’t matter if they were real or not, scared me like the Boogeyman.Many young men had dreams of an education so they could live better than their parents,

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01:02:08

Greatest Girl Groups

Muzik Detention ·

2025/04/06

Girl Groups have been with us since the beginning of popular music, and in my 60-plus years, just two have stood above everyone else: The Supremes and Destiny’s Child.The Supremes are the greatest singing group of all time and the template for all girl groups. Movies, plays and books can be found explaining the rise and no fall Supremes — there are at least a dozen albums without Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.Destiny’s Child is the greatest girl group since The Supremes but, a trio created after

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01:03:34

The Chit’lin Circuit

Muzik Detention ·

2025/03/06

The Chitlin Circuit along with The Great Migration gave especially “black people,” the ability to move away from “Sharecropping,” just another form of slavery, to chase their dreams. The 1920s were roaring, and people forgot that “what goes up must come down.” And after ten years of awesomeness, came ten years of hardship and suffering. And because of Jim Crow, black people suffered hardest. America is the Land of Opportunity!” Still, the wheels of change rolled slowly for black people. From 1870 to

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01:00:41

Introduction To The Blues

Muzik Detention ·

2025/02/07

The Blues is more than just American music, it is an outlet, an art form, a feeling and spoken words when the right words cannot be found. Robert Johnson wanted to the best delta blues guitarist ever and he sold his soul to make it happen. Ray Charles reshaped ‘the Blues’ and made it ‘the Devil’s music when he took gospel arrangements and made them worldly.The blues isn’t alway sad, sometimes it’s happy. The blues isn’t always hopeless, it is also hopeful. And people have come from all over the

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01:02:55

The World’s Most Dangerous Band

Muzik Detention ·

2024/11/04

There is an old saying that “Money Only Makes You More,” and a great example of this are the founding members of Guns & Roses.More drugs and alcohol use, more attitude and inner band squabbling with more fights is what you got as the members of G&R grew richer. Albums: Appetite For Destruction and the Use Your Illusion I & II brought fans from everywhere, but fans often times got more than what they paid for. Getting into more confrontations with leader Axel Rose, which led to more show

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01:01:30

1981

Muzik Detention ·

2024/05/27

From spring to fall 1981, I looked at the world through a wide angled lens. And what I saw scared me! The world wasn’t just changing, it was going coo coo! I was eighteen, and a high school grad, how was I going to manage myself in it? Inflation, war, man-made disasters, serial murders and the first cases of “AIDs”Every day something bad was reported in the news, and then our “most trusted” news source left! Tonight in Muzik Detention, we will discuss both sides of 1981, and look for balance in a

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01:00:09

40 Years Of New Edition

Muzik Detention ·

2024/04/22

Slow and steady wins the race, and that is New Edition. The group of friends was created by 11-year old Bobby Brown in 1978 and since then, the friends fussed, fought got ripped off by their management and production company. They separated, had highs and lows… and somehow, they guys landed together and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. New Edition isn’t the greatest vocal band, but they are the example of what could happen if you and your friends hang in there. --- Send in a voice

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00:01:43

Muzik & The Mob

Muzik Detention ·

2024/04/21

Good or bad, the Mafia has played a significant part in the music business. In this episode we learn about Morris Levy. Mr Morris is said to be The Godfather of the Music Business. This episode also explain terminology like “payola,” and we also discuss Fred Bonadona, a local business man and the owner of the restaurant “Poor Freddie’s”, and his fight with “the Civella’s,” Kansas City’s organized crime family and how Mr Bonadonna fought to keep boss Nick Civella and his friends out of The River

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00:01:25

Jani Lane the “Cherry Pie Guy”

Muzik Detention ·

2024/04/21

Singer and songwriter Jani Lane, front man of Warrant had it all, but he was unhappy. He wrote a song that went double-platinum, and it redefined him. It didn’t matter what he did, he couldn’t escape Cherry Pie. Or was that the problem? Years before Warrant and Cherry Pie, Mr Jani was sexually assaulted and never told anyone. He lock that horrible event away in his mind and for years the memories haunted him. He tried alcohol and at first that worked, but it slowly stopped. And Jani Lane tried

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00:03:36

Eagles - the group who outsold Thriller

Muzik Detention ·

2024/04/21

What makes a band awesome is harmony, it is also the key to a band’s longevity. But, this the ingredient that only the Eagles half way. The members of Eagles were four multi-talented, creative musical geniuses, but none of them could get along with the founding member Don Henley. The group created six studio albums, each did better than the last. But, success isn’t enough to keep a group together. The band’s manager released a greatest hits without the band’s consent, and this compilation is

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01:03:34

The Eagles 1971-1980

Muzik Detention ·

2024/04/08

What makes a band awesome is harmony, it is also the key to a band’s longevity. But, this the ingredient that only the Eagles half way. The members of Eagles were four multi-talented, creative musical geniuses, but none of them could get along with the founding member Don Henley. The group created six studio albums, each did better than the last. But, success isn’t enough to keep a group together. The band’s manager released a greatest hits without the band’s consent, and this compilation is still

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01:02:35

Madona

Muzik Detention ·

2024/03/25

Madonna arrived in New York City and it was all or nothing. She ate when she could, slept where she could and did whatever it took to further her brand. Getting to the top is all that mattered and Madonna used people to get what she wanted and then, she pushed them aside.Madonna has a dozen number one hit singles and over thirty top tens, she is The Queen of Pop! In 1984 in an interview with Dick Clark on American Bandstand, Madonna said that she wants to rule the world. In this class we learn

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01:00:28

Prince 1977-1984

Muzik Detention ·

2024/03/11

It was Spring 1978, my freshman year, when I first heard of Prince and “Soft & Wet.” Prince would be a high school senior. Different schools, in fact, I don’t know him. But like a big brother, Prince was there at every event in my life back then. And like a little brother, I followed everything he did. I bought every album and learned every song.Prince, above everything else, or, if nothing else, is consistent. Like him, hate him or love him, Prince released material that earned a place someone’s

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01:03:06

Milli Vanilli

Muzik Detention ·

2024/02/26

A Deal With The Devil, The Fall of Milli VanilliThe dream for most music artist is a Grammy. That was the last thing “Rob,” aka Rob Pilatus and “Fab” aka Fabrice Morvan wanted. Because that would expose them. “Rob & Fab” were hired for their looks. They were two literally starving artist with a dream, and one it came true. Rob & Fab were offered a deal that gave them everything that they could ever want, and it took all of it back even more. --- Send in a voice message:

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01:00:12

Martha Wash: The Voice of Dance Music

Muzik Detention ·

2024/02/13

Martha Wash has the voice, but she never had the look, and she was okay with that. God gave her the gift to create amazing sound and shared almost freely. It was one day while channel surfing that Ms Martha learned that she was being exploited, and that the world was being lied to. Ms Martha was the voice behind Black Box and C+C Music Factory, and in both of groups Ms Martha was impersonated. In Black Box by Katrin Quinol and in C+C by Zelma Davis. Rapper Freedom Williams said that he could find

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01:02:26

The Cherry Pie Guy

Muzik Detention ·

2024/01/29

Singer and songwriter Jani Lane, front man of Warrant had it all, but he was unhappy. He wrote a song that went double-platinum, and it redefined him. It didn’t matter what he did, he couldn’t escape Cherry Pie. Or was that the problem? Years before Warrant and Cherry Pie, Mr Jani was sexually assaulted and never told anyone. He lock that horrible event away in his mind and for years the memories haunted him. He tried alcohol and at first that worked, but it slowly stopped. And Jani Lane tried

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01:01:04

The Death Pact

Muzik Detention ·

2024/01/15

When 20 year old Nancy Laura Spungen was found dead in her New York City Hotel bathroom, The Police looked no further than her lover John Simon Richie, a.k.a. Sid Vicious. Bass player of the Sex Pistols. Nancy had been dead maybe four hours. When her body was found. A witness said, that Sid had taken 30 sleeping pills seven or eight hours sooner. There was a knife, Actually, there were two. But the blades didn’t match the wound and nether knife had any prints. Nancy Spungen’s death is

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01:00:53

The Runaways

Muzik Detention ·

2024/01/02

The Villain Behind The Runaways The Runaways were five talented teen-aged girls lured together by songwriter and promoter Kim Fowley to be rock n roll’s answer to Grand Funk Railroad. Along with their dreams of fame and fortune, came repeated abuse and exploitation. Kim Fowley held all of the cards and used his power to bend the rules. The young teen women eventually walked away from their manager, with only “hate” to take with them, there was no money and no record deal. Each member started over

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