You may have noticed that I am not blogging much at the moment. While the urge to share with you my finds of great music is still as strong as ever, I need to take a few more sick days. So all I can do at the moment is listen to music, hoping to find a few gems I can present to you when I feel better again.
James Carr — You Didn’t Know It, But You Had Me
Thelma Jones — I’d Rather Leave While I’m In Love
Ovations — Happiness
Stylistics — Ebony Eyes
Superiors Band & Their Soul Sisters — Amateur Lover
Sweet Inspirations — Oh What A Fool I ‘ve Been
The Impliment — I Wish It Were Me
Winfield Parker — Oh My Love
Percy Sledge — Out Of Left Field
Lindell Hill – Ramone
Bobby Womack — Point Of No Return
Candi Staton — All I Had
I hope you all started the new year being happy and listening to your favorite music. Your old Raggedy had to go slow this year because she’s a bit under the weather. Let’s all hope things will improve soon, so I can return to regular blogging again.
I’ll start the new year with one of the most beloved love songs ever: My Girl. The original was sung of course by one of the most beloved groups that ever existed: The Temptations. King Floyd’s version is astonishingly different from most of the covers I’ve heard so far. Theoretically the intro could be addressing the song itself — a rare gem of a composition that hasn’t lost a bit of its magic over the decades it has been sung.
The song is from his 1973 album Think About It (Atlantic).
I wish everyone a new year of health, love, and happiness.
Get the collection here. GET IT! You will be surprised at what this man’s voice was capable of … I just love his renditions of Any Day Now and the live performance of Come Softly in South Africa — and of course his take on I Found A Love. Other instant favorites: Hard To Believe, Same Old Lover Man, Blow Out The Sun, and Cotton Mill Man …
Life is not easy — especially when you have to choose between two of your favorite guys. I hope my main man David Ruffin will forgive my getting all mushy about my main man Percy Sledge … But this is a song by Percy I had not heard before. And what can I say? Percy has won me over one more time.
I guess you all know what I’m going to listen to the rest of the day.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till, ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The Carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
‘There is no peace on earth,’ I said;
‘For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!’
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
‘God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!’
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
