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Coffee Break: Vocal duets

A wintery duet by Allison LaBonne and Brian Tighe at the New Standards Holiday Show
A wintery duet by Allison LaBonne and Brian Tighe at the New Standards Holiday ShowSteven Cohen for MPR

by Anna Reed

August 07, 2017

For today's Vinyl Tap we played Otis Redding & Carla Thomas's "Knock on Wood" and for our Music History highlight we played Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", so we better keep this pattern going.

For today's Coffee Break, what vocal duets do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

PJ Harvey - This Mess We're In ft. Thom Yorke
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris - Love Hurts
Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Jack White and Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die
Johnny Cash and June Carter - Jackson