Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Shimi Sonic Edit)
Listen to the 1972 original HERE
Bill Withers - You
…from his 1974 album, +’Justments which I had not heard in its entirety until yesterday and am now completely obsessed with.
Jesse Belvin - Let’s Try Romance
Every time I hear your name
My heart is bippin’ and boppin’, oh bippin’ in vain.
The Delfonics - Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love) - c.1969
…used as the basis of the Fugees’ Ready Or Not
Sam Cooke - (Ain’t That) Good News
…nothing wrong with a little Sam Cooke on your birthday.
American Bandstand. April 04, 1964. Full interview after song.
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (c.1965)
…Jones was born in Cincinnati, and moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of seven, where she first started singing.