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Sep. 1 2009 - 4:53 pm | 1 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Dancing in September

By MARK STRICHERZ

Nobody will confuse me with Don Cornelius, but I say that there are few ways better than kicking off this month than playing a clip of “September” by the greatest black pop-and-funk band that no white person younger than 35 has heard of. (That is, unless, you happened to love Forest Whitaker’s character in a certain early 1980s movie).

 
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