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Uranus-Pluto & The Girl Group Explosion: A Playlist

Posted by Laurence Jones on March 25, 2015March 25, 2015

As you may know, this past Sunday I presented at the Queer Astrology Conference on Girl Group archetypes during the before and culminating with Uranus/Pluto Conjunction in Virgo years culminating in 1965-66.

In the afterglow of that, and waiting for the audio recording of that talk to surface in the next month, I’ve culled the songs that I played, and some others that didn’t get a chance to light up the room in tribute this past Sunday.

Enjoy!

Uranus-Pluto & The Girl Group Explosion: A Playlist

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I still claim Brenda Holloway as a Gemini. West Coast is The Best Coast, so we wish Motown's first discovery from Los Angeles and Queen of The Motown Vaults (how many oodles of reissues are we still getting from her efforts?) a happy 72nd Birthday. We'd be without Northern Soul, really, if she were gone.

For your Pride Season Mixcloud Playlist, I state I'm a firm believer in having to remember where you've been to see where you're going. To root and meditate on our history is to build for a stronger future. With that in mind, Who paved the way for those of us that get to reclaim the Queer label? Who were some of the musicians? Luckily those that would be seen through our modern understandings of Queerness proves that the collective we outside of binaries, patriarchy and heterosexuality have always existed. There's a few openly queer survivors on this mix such as #AndyBey, #JackieShane, #JohnnyMathis and #MitchRyder. There's also a number of voices that sadly weren't able to reach a point that their lives were to be as beautiful as the music they created like #RudyLewis of #TheDrifters, #DustySpringfield, #ArthurConley and #BigMamaThornton. Alongside them are some camp and queer reading recordings by some straight folks in one mix that is very close to my heart. Hug it out homos, it's gonna be alright if we stick together. Find it at mixcloud.com/larsupreme65 or https://djlarsupreme.com/2018/06/12/pride-allies-a-queer-mid-century-celebration-mix. . . #mixcloud #playlist #lgbt #prideseason #queerelders #queerancestors #queerlegends #lbgtqhistory #queerdj

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She wasn't the first but she really was the First Lady of The Girl Group Sound. Like Pioneers The Marvelettes, The Shirelles had a Gemini/Leo tag team of lead singers, but the voice that launched the majority of their classics was Shirley Alston - Reeves. Today we celebrate her 77th birthday. . . #geminirollcall #theshirelles #shirleyalstonreeves #girlgroups #geminiseason #randbpioneers #scepterrecords

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