RIBS TPTD: Change, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Teena Marie…

June 28, 2007 by tgrundy · 3 Comments
Filed under: General/Misc 

The weather is heating up, summertime is upon us, the days are long, the skirts are short… man, I just LOVE the Summer!

As we bid goodbye to June, and move headlong into the hot, hazy and humid days of July, here are three groups that, for some reason, always remind me of hanging out and partying in the summer heat.

This week we present to you:

  1. Change
  2. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
  3. Teena Marie

RIBS TPTD: Change, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Teena Marie
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Playlist:

  1. Change - Paradise
  2. Maze - Welcome Home
  3. Teena Marie - First Class Love
  4. Change - It’s A Girls Affair
  5. Maze - You’re Not The Same
  6. Teena Marie - It Must Be Magic
  7. Change - Hold Tight
  8. Maze - Nobody Knows What You Feel Inside
  9. Teena Marie - I’m Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat It Too)
  10. Change - Say You Love Me Again
  11. Maze - Silky Soul
  12. Teena Marie - Oooo Wee (ft. Kurupt)
  13. Change - Searching
  14. Maze - Love Is The Key
  15. Teena Marie - The Ballad Of Cradle Rob & Me
  16. Maze - While I’m Alone

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: “Trouble Man”, “Renaissance”, “First Take”

June 21, 2007 by tgrundy · 3 Comments
Filed under: R&B, Triple Play Thurs-Day, jazz, music, podcasts/mixes, soul 

Decided to do something slightly different with the mix this week. Instead of just choosing three artists for the list, we take the process one step further and focus on one particular album from those artists.

You know how some albums (yeah, yeah I know, they’re CDs now; well I’m “old school” and I still call them “albums”) are just ’special’ for one reason or another. You like every song and listen to the whole thing all the way through every time you play it. Or it could be the first (or last) release by the artist, or there are changes in the makeup of the group, etc. Something, for some reason, makes that particular album significant and stand out from all the rest.

So, for a TPTD change of pace, this time around we have the albums taking center stage this week as we present to you:

Trouble Man “Trouble Man”, the movie soundtrack by Marvin Gaye

Renaissance “Renaissance”, The Miracles’ first post-Smokey release

First Take “First Take”, the debut album from MFSB

RIBS TPTD: “Trouble Man”, “Renaissance”,  “First Take”
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Playlist:

  1. Marvin Gaye - “T” Plays It Cool
  2. The Miracles - Nowhere To Go
  3. MFSB - Something For Nothing
  4. Marvin Gaye - Main Theme From Trouble Man (part 1)
  5. MFSB - Family Affair
  6. The Miracles - What Is A Heart Good For?
  7. Marvin Gaye - The Break In (Police Shoot Big)
  8. Marvin Gaye - Cleo’s Apartment
  9. MFSB - Backstabbers
  10. The Miracles - I Didn’t Realize The Show Was Over
  11. Marvin Gaye - “T” Stands For Trouble
  12. MFSB - Lay In Low
  13. The Miracles - I Love You Secretly
  14. Marvin Gaye - Life Is A Gamble
  15. MFSB - Poinciana
  16. The Miracles - If You’re Ever In The Neighborhood
  17. Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
  18. MFSB - Freddie’s Dead
  19. The Miracles - I Wanna Be With You
  20. The Miracles - Don’t Let It End (’Till You Let It Begin)
  21. Marvin Gaye - Don’t Mess With Mister “T”
  22. Marvin Gaye - Main Theme From Trouble Man (part 2)

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: “Double Triple”-The Stylistics, The Main Ingredient, Phyllis Hyman…

June 14, 2007 by tgrundy · 3 Comments
Filed under: R&B, Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul 

Ever start cooking a favorite recipe, like a cake, but you have 1001 things on your mind. You’re trying to find all of the right spices and other ingredients for the cake, the NBA Finals game is on the TV in the kitchen, the final episode of the Sopranos is on the TV in the other room, you got a little jazz going on the radio (the sound on the TV is off, of course), that damn cell phone keeps ringing (just when you start doing something, right?)… and you end up putting way too much baking soda in the cake batter! Damn!

Now to fix it you can try to add a little bit of this spice here and a little bit of that spice there to balance things off. However, you know from past experience that the only thing you CAN do to make this thing come out tasting just right is that you have to double up on all of the other ingredients. And you end up with TWO cakes instead of just one.

Well… that’s kinda what happened with this week’s mix. But then again, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anybody complaining about getting two cakes, especially when they were expecting only one.

So, this week we have the “accidental” Double Triple and present to you:

  1. The Stylistics
  2. The Main Ingredient
  3. Phyllis Hyman

Since this ‘DT’ wasn’t really planned per say, there is no Funky mix/Mellow mix combination like the inaugural Double Triple mix I did for the Memorial Day weekend. Nope, just two mixes of that “sweet, soul music” by three artists that have provided the background music to many a memorable moment (or two) from my youthful days and have a firm foothold in The Soundtrack Of My Life.

Both playlists have a mix of tempos, neither one is all fast nor all slow. However, as you might expect from this trio, the overall tempo leans more towards the mellow, easy listening side of things. I especially, like the last four songs that finish up the Part 1 mix: “You Are Everything”, “Summer Breeze”, “Meet Me On The Moon” (my favorite PH song!) and “People Make The World Go Round”. As I like to say here at Rhythms In Black Satin, “Music Never Felt Soooo Good!”

Enjoy!

Part 1:
RIBS TPTD: The Stylistics-The Main Ingredient-Phyllis Hyman-1
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Part 2:
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Playlists:

Part 1

  1. The Stylistics - Funky Weekend
  2. The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool
  3. Phyllis Hyman - Don’t Tell Me, Tell Her
  4. The Stylistics - Lovin’ Proof
  5. The Main Ingredient - Happiness Is Just Around The Bend
  6. Norman Connors - Betcha, By Golly, Wow (featuring Phyllis Hyman)
  7. The Stylistics - Betcha, By Golly, Wow
  8. The Main Ingredient - Girl Blue
  9. Phyllis Hyman - Can’t We Fall In Love Again (w/Michael Henderson)
  10. The Stylistics - Baby Don’t Change Your Mind
  11. The Main Ingredient - California My Way
  12. Phyllis Hyman - When You Get Right Down To It
  13. The Stylistics - Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
  14. The Main Ingredient - I’m So Proud
  15. Phyllis Hyman - Some Way
  16. The Stylistics - You Are Everything
  17. The Main Ingredient - Summer Breeze
  18. Phyllis Hyman - Meet Me On The Moon
  19. The Stylistics - People Make The World Go Round

Part 2

  1. The Stylistics - Hurry Up This Way Again
  2. The Main Ingredient - Let Me Prove My Love To You
  3. Phyllis Hyman - Sacred Kind Of Love (w/Grover Washington, Jr.)
  4. The Stylistics - Break Up To Make Up
  5. The Main Ingredient - Love You (The Letter)
  6. Phyllis Hyman - In Between The Heartaches
  7. The Stylistics - It’s So Good
  8. The Main Ingredient - Don’t You Worry About A Thing
  9. Phyllis Hyman - Soon Come Again
  10. The Stylistics  - Disco Baby
  11. The Main Ingredient - It’s Alright
  12. Phyllis Hyman - This Feeling Must Be Love
  13. The Stylistics - You Ought To Be With Me
  14. The Main Ingredient - By Any Means Necessary
  15. Phyllis Hyman - I’ll Be Around (w/McCoy Tyner)
  16. The Main Ingredient - Magic
  17. Phyllis Hyman - Complete Me
  18. The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New

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RIBS TPTD: The Delfonics, The Dells, The Spinners…

A little late getting this one out of the kitchen and onto the buffet table. Let me just throw down the links right know so you can get to the music and I’ll come back in a hour or two and lay down some thoughts on these three fine groups.

We present to you this week:

  1. The Delfonics
  2. The Dells
  3. The Spinners

RIBS TPTD: The Delfonics, The Dells, The Spinners
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Playlist:

  1. The Delfonics - Delfonics’ Theme
  2. The Dells - Love Is Blue
  3. The Spinners - Mighty Love
  4. The Delfonics - Ready Or Nor Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)
  5. The Dells - Bring Back The Love Of Yesterday
  6. The Spinners - I’ll Be Around
  7. The Delfonics - Funny Feeling
  8. The Dells - I Miss You
  9. The Spinners - Could It Be I’m Falling In Love
  10. The Delfonics - I Told You So
  11. The Dells - Best In Me
  12. The Spinners - Ghetto Child
  13. The Delfonics - For The Love That I Give To You
  14. The Dells - My Pretending Days Are Over
  15. The Spinners - How Could I Let You Get Away
  16. The Delfonics - Over And Over
  17. The Dells - Always Together
  18. The Spinners - One Of A Kind (Love Affair)
  19. The Delfonics - When You Get Right Down To It
  20. The Dells - Stay In My Corner
  21. The Spinners - Love Don’t Love Nobody


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