Throwback

Governor Romney and his family make me think about what it was like back in the day.

Ganett Mimms and the Enchanters: A Quiet Place

Larry Green and Georgie Davis sang this in the Camp Curtin locker room:
Lady, lady lady -- why do you hollar?
Ain't nobody seen your Johnny Dollar.
I can't get no sleep in this noisy street.
I gotta move, I gotta move, I gotta find me a quiet place.





Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness

Fast forward to a battle of the bands. The Noble Souls close with the classic:
Hold you squeeze you, never leave you.
Got to got to my my my my




Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers: Malinda



Thinking about Ruthanne Hopkins but singing this:
Malinda's the girl
who came to my world
and made my interest in all other girls stop.

Blue Magic: Sideshow                      

Playing wallball with the Breeze
Step right up hurry hurry
Before the show begins

Hal David Dies

You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart): Rahsaan Roland Kirk

You´ll never get to heaven (1973) - rahsaan roland kirk by Cotton Jazz on Mixcloud

Hurricane Isaac Mix 2012

Stormy Weather: The Magnificent Men
Water No Get Enemy: Femi Kuti
She's Like the Wind: Vibekingz
Let's Get Blown: Snoop Dogg
Summer Rain: Carl Thomas
Storm Warning: The Volcanos
The Rain: Melody Gardot
Stormy Weather: Little Dragon
Song of the Wind: Gil Scott-Heron
Digging Your Scene: The Blow Monkeys
Wind Parade: Donald Byrd
Wade in the Water: Graham Bond Organization
It Really Doesn't Matter To You: Thundercat
Blown Away: N.E.R.D.
After the Hurricane: Jazmine Sullivan

Sweet and Rare

August 2012: 5 Sweet Soul Songs Under the Radar:

Gene Williams: Don't Let Your Love Fade Away
Milton Wright: Leave Me Alone
Marvin Holmes & Justice: I Can't See You
Michael Orr: Here I Go
William Bell: All I Need is Your Love

I'm a Soul Man ... but

I watched Young Adult on a recent flight, Jason Reitman's follow-up to Up In The Air, and as silly as i thought the film was, I enjoyed the score by Rolfe Kent.

I had never heard of the British composer before, and I kept thinking that the music was actually done by Jun Miyake who figured so prominently in Pina, Wim Wenders beautiful love letter to the German choreographer. At other times, I thought that the music was by Jon Brion, who scored Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Then I saw Ken Ishii was the sound mixer, and I wondered if this was the Japanese electronic mastermind who does the Tokyo Fashion Fuse which my old friend and colleague Alastair Himmer is doing frequently in Tokyo.

Well I do not know if Ishii is the same Ishii, but Rolfe Kent was the reason I sat through gorgeous Charlize Theron's painful but silly take on a Minneapolis author smitten with her high school sweetheart as envisioned by Diablo Cody.

I do know that this is getting more and more twisted as the moments pass, that I would never recommend the film, but that I loved some of the music, even the Teenage Fanclub/Dinosaur Jr. alt-rock 90's music I would never have listened to back then.

Amy Winehouse Documentary

Chills run up and down my spine when I listen to Amy Winehouse sing.

I spent a large part of my morning on the headset with Amy Winehouse after watching a German documentary about her last night. Listen to Tears Dry on Their Own, Stronger Than Me, and Cherry; then consider what a mammoth loss her death has been.

Taste is taste, but to me, one of the biggest losses in the last fifty years.

Techno in Berlin: A Ubiquitous Sound

All about the bump, bump, bump here.

Saw Paul Kalkbrenner before Trust closed. Just great.

Jet Lag Music

I couldn't sleep at all last night, as I was tossin' and turnin', turnin' and tossin', tossin' and turnin' all night. So I pulled out my (t)rusty iPod and searched for the somnolent solution.

I tried the following:

Gil Scott Heron: Better Days
Marvin Gaye: When Did You Stop Loving Me. When Did I Stop Loving You
Curtis Mayfield: The Makings Of You
Stevie Wonder: I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
Cooly's Hot Box: Maybe I
Stevie Wonder: Superwoman
Raphael Saadiq: Never Give You Up
Regina Carter: Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Musiq: The Girl Next Door
Viktor Vaughn: Fancy Clown
Bill Withers: Can We Pretend
John Klemmer: Forest Child
Heatwave: All You Do is Dial

Chillin'

Back in the day, it was Dukey Stick. Here is something for all who like Chillin':

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Listen to this:

Hello Beach Girls by Richard Schneider, Jr. https://sites.google.com/site/occupysoulstreet/system/app/pages/admin/revisions?wuid=wuid:gx:10e240df16b22733

Playlist June 24, 2012

1. Lilies in the Valley Jun Miyake 
2. Sunshine Build an Ark
3. Stormy Weather Magnificent Men 
4. Theme         Jon Brion 
5. Someone To Watch Over Me Amy Winehouse 
6. Undelivered Letter Quantic & Combo Barbaro 
7. Love Hater Outkast
8. Sylvia Arthur Verocai 
9. Little Darling Aaron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair
10. Brudmarsch Efter Florsen i Brus Merit Hemmingson 
11. Lay Lady Lay David T. Walker
12. Pavane         Regina Carter 
13. Little Fly Esperanza Spalding
14. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Kathleen Emery
15. Boogielastic B-Squared 
16. Moon Rappin‘ Brother Jack McDuff
17. First Light Eyas
18. Pretty Brown Skin Roy Ayers
19. Fencewalk Mandrill
20. Can I Help You Amnesty
21. All I’m Missing Is You Matthew Larkin Cassell 
22. Theme from Spartacus Ino Hidefumi
23. I've Found Joy Matthew Halsall
24. Moody’s Mood for Love Amy Winehouse

June 2012

Father's Day on 88.9 WDNA/wdna.org
1. Gil Scott-Heron: Speed Kills
2. Build An Ark: You Gotta Have Freedom
3. Doug Carn: Fatherhood 
4. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson: Your Daddy Loves You 
5. Boogaloo Joe Jones: Brown Bag
6. George Duke: Chillin
7. Thom Hanreich: My One and Only Love 
8. Jenny Scheinmann I Heart Eyepatch
9. PE”z Green Dolls
10. Soil & Pimp Sessions Funky Goldman Pimpoint
11. Heath Brothers Smilin’ Billy Suite Pt. 2
12. J.A.M: Roy’s Scat
13. Jeb Loy Nichols: The Day that Never Came
14. The Voices of Time: Solstice
15. Nostalgia 77: Changes
16. Elvis Presley and the Jordanaires: Crawfish
17. Misty Magnificent Men
18. Frontin' Jamie Cullum
19. Find A Way Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood Ferguson
20. Hot 8 Brass Band: Sexual Healing
21. Savoy Brown: Sunday Night