Dance Hall Rock - Barrington Levy and Cutty Ranks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUsz8iv7Tas Ironically, the biggest hit on the Rare Earth label was R Dean Taylor's "Indiana Wants Me"...
It's My Time - the Mynah Birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQTE8hKvaaI In 1969 in an attempt to cash in on the British and r&b influenced rock music that was...
Love's Your Name - R Dean Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU421-O0g6g In 1965 Motown had released R Dean Taylor's first single on the label "Let's Go Somewhere",...
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,...
