Today’s Artist
The Four Tops 1953 –
Sugar pie, honey bunch, I can't help myself...
Stubbs sang lead with a voice that could crush stone. The Four Tops stayed together 44 years without a lineup change. Stubbs never sang a note that sounded like pretending. Every word was truth. More →
Back of the Catalog Selection
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Who Did It Better
Someday We'll All Be Free
1973 Donny Hathaway
1992 Chaka Khan
Donny wrote a promise from a man who knew exactly what freedom costs in this world. Chaka Khan sang the same someday refusing to let hope sound naive. The pledge withstood the years. The conviction came from survival, scars, and patience through the long waiting.
Today’s Record
Creep
You had me from hello.
Left Eye hated this song. She thought 30 sec sent the wrong message ... a woman admitting she'll never leave her man but keeps cheating on him. T-Boz and Chilli disagreed. The tension was real, and it's in the recording: a track so cool it's practically clinical, a confession delivered like lab results. Dallas Austin produced it. Number one on the Hot 100. Sometimes the wrong message is the rightest thing you can say.
Today’s Theme
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You’re Kidding, Right
Otis Redding never finished '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay.' Three days before his plane went down, he cut the track at Stax and whistled the ending because he had not written the fadeout yet. That whistle was meant to be temporary. It became the most famous accidental outro in soul music. He never got to hear it on the radio.
Soul in the Movies
The Substitute 1996
Tom Berenger plays a mercenary who goes undercover as a high school teacher in The Substitute, and the Bar-Kays' 'Soul Finger' -- a Stax instrumental built around a riff that sounds like a warning -- is the sound of a man who administers detention with extreme prejudice.
Soul finger. The substitute was pointing it at the drug ring. 