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Carl Carlton, an R&B singer best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked ...

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

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CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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