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Podcast: Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
Episode: Yes We Can Can Edition Part 1
Description: Today, the Pointer Sisters are mostly remembered for their flurry of â80s hits, especially the âExcitedâ one about losing control and liking it. But their musical history is far more varied: jazz standards? Civil rightsâera funk? Country music? Yacht rock? The Pointers applied their impeccable sibling harmonies to all of it.Billboard ranks the Pointer Sisters behind only the Supremes, TLC and Destinyâs Child among hitmaking girl groups. Yet their versatility has gone relatively unheraldedâfrom the Grammy they won in a country category, to the Bruce Springsteen demo they turned into a smash, to...