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Today’s Artist
The Commodores 1968-
She's a brick house, she's mighty mighty,
just lettin' it all hang out.
just lettin' it all hang out.
College kids from Tuskegee who came to play funk and discovered they could break hearts too. Lionel Richie wrote Easy like he was not trying, and that was the trick. Brick House got the party started and Three Times a Lady got it finished. They proved a band could be both the life of the party and the one who walked you home after. More on The Commodores →
Who Did It Better
Chain of Fools For five long years I thought you were my man
But I found out, I'm just a link in your chain
But I found out, I'm just a link in your chain
1967 Aretha Franklin
1994 Luther Vandross
Chain of Fools 0:30 is five years she cannot get back. She thought she was his woman. She was a link in a chain, replaceable and unaware. The slow recognition of being used is one of the cruelest awakenings.
Being played slow has its own sting. He never lied exactly. He just never told her the truth. Now she sits with years she gave to a man who never made her his.
Today’s Record
My Favorite Things
John Coltrane
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Yesterday’s Track
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Today’s Theme
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Soul in the Movies
Notting Hill 1999
Bill Withers wrote 'Ain't No Sunshine' while working at a factory making toilet seats for 747s. In Notting Hill, it plays during the montage where Hugh Grant walks through Portobello Road across four seasons, missing Julia Roberts. The film made a hundred million dollars. The song is better than both.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. The seasons proved it. 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).
