A Song A Day
Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Shimi Sonic Edit)
8 plays

Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Shimi Sonic Edit)

Listen to the 1972 original HERE

                                               

Andy Allo - People Pleaser
35 plays

Andy Allo - People Pleaser

                                               

Esther Phillips - Home Is Where the Hatred Is
14 plays

Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is  (c.1972)

                                               

Little Milton - That's What Love Will Make You Do (Shimi Sonic Edit)
39 plays

Little Milton - That’s What Love Will Make You Do (Shimi Sonic Edit)

                                               

Ben E. King - Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1
22 plays

Ben E. King - Supernatural Thing, Pt. 1  (c.1975)

                                               

Bill Withers - Heartbreak Road
20 plays

Bill Withers - Heartbreak Road  

(c.1974 from his album +’Justments

                                               

Bill Withers - The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
41 plays

Bill Withers - The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (c.1974)

                                               

Bill Withers - You
50 plays

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 - 22 Let's Try Romance (edit)
21 plays

Jesse Belvin - Let’s Try Romance

Every time I hear your name
My heart is bippin’ and boppin’, oh bippin’ in vain.

                                               

Johnnie Taylor - You're Good for Me
102 plays

Johnnie Taylor - You’re Good For Me (c.1969)

                                               

The Delfonics - Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)
69 plays

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

                                               

Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay (c.1973)
41 plays

Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay (c.1973)

                                               

Sam Cooke
49 plays

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
395 plays

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.

                                               

The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
49 plays

The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?  (c.1964)