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A Look Back at Slick 70s Soul

World music critic Milo Miles has a review of a new CD called "If You Don't Know Me by Now: The Best of Harold Melvin and Blue Notes."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 4, 1995: Interview with Al Franken; Commentary on Island Records; Interview with Geshe Thupten Jinpa; Review of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' album "If You Don't…
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Stuart Smalley Debuts on the Big Screen

Al Franken is a writer and actor on "Saturday Night Live." His characters have included the one-man mobile uplink unit, Pat Robertson, Paul Tsongas, and Stuart Smalley, host of "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley." In 1992, Franken published a book under Stuart's name; Stuart's new project is an upcoming movie called "Stuart Saves His Family."

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A Label that Promoted Artists from Two Islands

Rock Historian Ed Ward continues his five part series on what impact several small record companies have had on the music world. Today he discusses Island Records, founded in England by Jamaican-born musician Chris Blackwell.

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Geshe Thupten Jinpa: the Dalai Lama's Translator

Thupten Jinpa was a refugee in India as a child, became a monk at a Tibetan monastery, and is the translator, editor and annotator of "The World of Tibetan Buddhism," written by the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

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