MisterChillax
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Day 22: A song from the 70's (by a WOC)
🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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UnquietDreams
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Day 22: A song from the 70s.
In 1973, Peebles, along with her partner Don Bryant, were heading out to a concert when a downpour hit. Ann looked out and said, "I can't stand the rain," and that rang withy Bryant, who immediately went to their piano and started working on this song. They completed it all that night (and didn't make the concert).
"When we were together
Everything was so grand
Now that we parted
There's just one thing that I just can't stand
I can't stand the rain"
I adore this song, both for the percussion and her wonderful vocalizations. It has been remade several times, and was sampled by Missy Elliot for her debut single. Just a lovely song by an artist who doesn't get the recognition she deserves.
"I Can't Stand the Rain," Ann Peebles (1974)
(+1 for a WOC artist, +2 total so far.)
In 1973, Peebles, along with her partner Don Bryant, were heading out to a concert when a downpour hit. Ann looked out and said, "I can't stand the rain," and that rang withy Bryant, who immediately went to their piano and started working on this song. They completed it all that night (and didn't make the concert).
"When we were together
Everything was so grand
Now that we parted
There's just one thing that I just can't stand
I can't stand the rain"
I adore this song, both for the percussion and her wonderful vocalizations. It has been remade several times, and was sampled by Missy Elliot for her debut single. Just a lovely song by an artist who doesn't get the recognition she deserves.
"I Can't Stand the Rain," Ann Peebles (1974)
(+1 for a WOC artist, +2 total so far.)
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__Nathan1968
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Day 20: A song from a movie you liked as a child
Day 20: A song from a movie you liked as a child
__Nathan1968
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Day 21: A song from the 60s
Martha Reeves. +1
Martha Reeves. +1
__Nathan1968
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Day 22: A song from the 70s
Chaka Khan. +1
Chaka Khan. +1
Chloe_Harper
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
(+1 WOC = 3)
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
(+1 WOC = 3)
luvzmature
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Sade- The SweetestTaboo
Sade- The SweetestTaboo
PassionatePanther
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
+3
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
+3
Wand3rlust
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Sister Sledge - Frankie
Sister Sledge - Frankie
UnquietDreams
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
I am working on my own theme of artists that never got the attention and love they should have. Romeo Void was a post-punk-but-not-quite-New Wave band when New Wave was taking over radio and MTV. They were more art house rock with a mix of punk and funk, based around singer Debora Iyall’s sultry vocals and Benjamin Bossi’s saxophone work, and eschewing the extensive keyboard sounds of the day. Iyall, a Cowlitz tribal member, was a powerful and versatile singer, going from sexy to sardonic, indifferent to impassioned at will. But Columbia Records didn’t know how to market them, and never gave them the support they needed, cutting them off mid-tour, even with a couple minor radio hits. The band never bounced back after that crash, and Iyall went back to her first love, art.
This is a live performance of “Never Say Never,” from An Evening at the Improv. It is not their highest performing single, but it is their best known song.
“I might like you better
If we slept together
But there's somethin'
In your eyes that says
Maybe that's never
Never say never”
“Never Say Never (live),” Romeo Void (1984)
(+1 for WOC, for 3 total)
I am working on my own theme of artists that never got the attention and love they should have. Romeo Void was a post-punk-but-not-quite-New Wave band when New Wave was taking over radio and MTV. They were more art house rock with a mix of punk and funk, based around singer Debora Iyall’s sultry vocals and Benjamin Bossi’s saxophone work, and eschewing the extensive keyboard sounds of the day. Iyall, a Cowlitz tribal member, was a powerful and versatile singer, going from sexy to sardonic, indifferent to impassioned at will. But Columbia Records didn’t know how to market them, and never gave them the support they needed, cutting them off mid-tour, even with a couple minor radio hits. The band never bounced back after that crash, and Iyall went back to her first love, art.
This is a live performance of “Never Say Never,” from An Evening at the Improv. It is not their highest performing single, but it is their best known song.
“I might like you better
If we slept together
But there's somethin'
In your eyes that says
Maybe that's never
Never say never”
“Never Say Never (live),” Romeo Void (1984)
(+1 for WOC, for 3 total)
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MrMakersMark
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A song from the 80s.
QuietCanadian
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
There was never another choice for this decade.
There was never another choice for this decade.
Whiskeyjack
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
1988 - "Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
1988 - "Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
Wonderer67
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Day 22: A song from the 80s (by a WOC)
I was gonna go a totally different direction on this one, but my wife and I were talking about Tina Turner just the other day and she remembered a few times she had seen her. She was always amazed by her legs! She dated a rock photographer in the late 70s/early 80s, and she got to sit in the photography area with him.
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do With It
W The Rolling Stones at Madison square garden. 1983
Meadowlands arena 1981
I was gonna go a totally different direction on this one, but my wife and I were talking about Tina Turner just the other day and she remembered a few times she had seen her. She was always amazed by her legs! She dated a rock photographer in the late 70s/early 80s, and she got to sit in the photography area with him.
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do With It
W The Rolling Stones at Madison square garden. 1983
Meadowlands arena 1981
morelikeasong
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
The outfits, the hair, the dance moves… I love it.
The Jets - Crush On You
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+3
The outfits, the hair, the dance moves… I love it.
The Jets - Crush On You
+1
MissLabelled
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy just kicks ass! She would be known as the frontwoman of "Mother's Finest" which you should really look up and listen to if you have never heard them but today, instead, I'm bringing a song from the soundtrack of The Breakfast Club because I loved that movie growing up.
Joyce Kennedy - Didn't I Tell You
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy just kicks ass! She would be known as the frontwoman of "Mother's Finest" which you should really look up and listen to if you have never heard them but today, instead, I'm bringing a song from the soundtrack of The Breakfast Club because I loved that movie growing up.
Joyce Kennedy - Didn't I Tell You
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Day 23: A song from the 80s by a WOC
