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TONIGHT: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt TONIGHT: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt
Tonight: Join ‘Lean On Me’ Global Singalong With Steve Van Zandt #LEANONUS: The musical equivalent of banging pots outside comes tonight when 60 SiriusXM stations play the late Bill Withers tune “Lean On Me,” thanks in large part to New Jersey’s own Steve Van Zandt. But that’s not all.  Van Zandt has asked music teachers, students and others to honor first responders and healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic by also recording their own version of the 1972 pop classic during today's “Worldwide Day of Gratitude." Known variously in his career as “Miami Steve,” “Little Steven” and Silvio Dante, the bandana-wearing rocker from Middl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: COVID-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With' Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: COVID-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With'
Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan: Covid-19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With' WATCH: A New Jersey firefighter has tapped into classic hip-hoppers Wu-Tang Clan for a video warning that COVID-19 “ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with.” Some listeners will instantly get the play on words from a classic 1992 Wu cut in the “#CovidCalls” video dropped Wednesday by Michael Sarno, who’s also an EMT and Afghanistan combat veteran. Jump cuts of responders in action mix with Sarno posting up at the Belleville and Bloomfield firehouses: “The Wuhan virus ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with/There’s no place to hide when we step inside the room/Boys in blue, prepare for this doom and damn/We’…

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by Jerry DeMarco