Just Look What You've Done - Brenda Holloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3dWKPsmaA Due to the general busyness in my life (or possibly idleness) I find myself, in June, still...
What'd I Say Parts 1 and 2 - Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsiAaWj0DuA 18 years ago today Ray Charles died at the age of 74. Of his great musical legacy, arguably...
It Should Have Been Me - Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4VAyb85j4 Ray Charles had his first chart hit in 1953 with the boogie come blues song "Mess Around"....
In the Heat of the Night - Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1cNEBu7ZE Of the three films that Sidney Poitier is nowadays mostly remembered for, all released in...
To Sir with Love - Lulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1qmmMwc9M In January, I was slowly working through the annual queue of yuletide demises, when there...
The Universal Soldier - Buffy Saint-Marie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09f1OE7R8s Three weeks on, and still the war in Ukraine continues. Over the past three weeks, the song...
Zombie - the Cranberries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts There are many, many great anti-war songs, but none conveys more feeling of grief,...
Stop the War Now - Edwin Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv0gqIPAE4 It's been 5 weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and my blog thread of the annual spate of...
(The Best Part of) Breaking Up - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K04WwAL-3eg "the best part of breaking up is when you're making up...." Generally true, especially in the...
Do I Love You? - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7LaOVIyXU As I have mentioned elsewhere, my father was a corrosion engineer for an oil company in the...
