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Roberta Flack
Today’s Artist
Roberta Flack 1937-2025 (88)
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
singing my life with his words.
Roberta Flack taught English at a segregated school in North Carolina before the piano called her away. She approached a microphone like a teacher approaching a lesson plan, finding the meaning underneath every word before she sang a note. Killing Me Softly was one take because the first pass was the only one that mattered. She proved quiet could land harder than any scream. More on Roberta Flack →
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Who Did It Better
play Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Marvin Gaye 1967
Marvin Gaye
Diana Ross 1970
Diana Ross

Ain't No Mountain High Enough 0:30 is what a man says when he has already packed his bags. Not a maybe. He is on his way before she finishes asking. Mountains do not stop people who have decided to move.

He is not speaking hypothetically. No geography can stand between him and where she is. That is not poetry. That is a promise with his shoes on.

Today’s Record
Just Be Good to Me
Friends tell me I am crazy
That I'm wasting time with you
Album art
The S.O.S. Band

Treat me right if you want to have my love completely. The S.O.S. Band demanded mutual respect in relationships between two people. Electro-funk grooves carried important messages of self-worth and dignity always. Everyone deserves kindness from those they care about most deeply.

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Yesterday’s Track
Album art 1984
New Edition
Cool It Now
Everybody's saying silly things
Without knowing that life brings a change
She needs to slow down. He is not ready yet. Cool it now means give me space. Not a rejection. He likes her. Young love burns intense. Sometimes intensity needs to cool before it burns everything to the ground and leaves nothing standing behind.
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Today’s Theme
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You’re Kidding, Right
Mahalia Jackson sang 'How I Got Over' at the March on Washington in 1963, just before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech. The crowd of 250,000 fell silent. She didn't need a microphone.
Soul in the Movies
Mo Money 1992
Mo Money Damon Wayans wrote and starred in Mo Money, a 1992 comedy about a small-time crook who falls for a woman while working a credit card scam. Heavy D's 'Money Can't Buy You Love' is the title track. The song is about the limits of wealth. The film is about discovering those limits in real time. Money can't buy you love. The film proved it.
The Sunday Drop
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Image Credits

1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

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We are a music discovery project.
Roberta Flack
Today’s Artist
Roberta Flack1937 – 2025
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words.
Roberta Flack taught English at a segregated school in North Carolina before the piano called her away. She approached a microphone like a teacher approaching a lesson plan, finding the meaning underneath every word before she sang a note. Killing Me Softly was one take because the first pass was the only one that mattered. She proved quiet could land harder than any scream.
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Who Did It Better
play Ain't No Mountain High Enough 1967
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Marvin Gaye Diana Ross

Ain't No Mountain High Enough 0:30 is what a man says when he has already packed his bags. Not a maybe. He is on his way before she finishes asking. Mountains do not stop people who have decided to move.

He is not speaking hypothetically. No geography can stand between him and where she is. That is not poetry. That is a promise with his shoes on.

Today’s Record
Just Be Good to Me
Friends tell me I am crazy
That I'm wasting time with you
Treat me right if you want to have my love completely. The S.O.S. Band demanded mutual respect in relationships between two people. Electro-funk grooves carried important messages of self-worth and dignity always. Everyone deserves kindness from those they care about most deeply.
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Today’s Theme
Love Jones
Love Jones -- the playlist that knows love has competing stories to tell and refuses to pick one. Cu......
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Soul in the Movies
Damon Wayans wrote and starred in Mo Money, a 1992 comedy about a small-time crook who falls for a woman while working a credit card scam. Heavy D's 'Money Can't Buy You Love' is the title track. The song is about the limits of wealth. The film is about discovering those limits in real time. Money can't buy you love. The film proved it.
You’re Kidding, Right
Mahalia Jackson sang 'How I Got Over' at the March on Washington in 1963, just before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech. The crowd of 250,000 fell silent. She didn't need a microphone.
Why We're Here
Most of us grew up with free radio. Then corporations took over the playlist. Then we found Spotify and YouTube -- until the algorithm quietly decided what we liked, and suddenly we were stuck on repeat again. There's so much music out there, and only so much time to hear it.
At HotSupper, we just want to open things up a little. Maybe you'll stumble on an artist you've never heard of. Maybe you'll rediscover a song you'd completely forgotten. Maybe you'll just tap your toes. Either way, it's yours to explore. And if you have ideas to make this place better, we're all ears.
The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Image Credits

1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

Full attribution breakdown →

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