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Today’s Artist

Skip James 1902 - 1969

I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm glad this evening.

Skip James played blues in a high eerie voice. He recorded in 1931 and was rediscovered in 1964 deeply together. ○○○

Who Did It Better

Cruisin'

1979

Smokey Robinson

1995

D'Angelo

Smokey Robinson wrote Cruisin as a slow jam before slow jams had a name. DAngelo slowed it down even more. Cruising when the night feels like it might last forever.

You tell us which one owns it.

Today’s Record

Running With The Night 1983

A song about running through the night feeling free with a lover

Lionel Richie wrote with Cynthia Weil, and the song is uncharacteristically edgy for Richie -- a rock-funk hybrid with a guitar solo by Steve Lukather of Toto that arrives like a sports car cutting across three lanes of traffic. Peaked at number seven on the Hot 100 in 1983.

Richie could do smooth better than anyone. This proved he could do dangerous too.

You’re kidding, right

Deniece Williams sang backup for Stevie Wonder in Wonderlove on "Talking Book" and "Songs in the Key of Life" before going solo with her four-octave range. She trained under Stevie Wonder during his greatest creative period. Was in the room for two of the most celebrated albums in music history. That's not just backup -- that's a masterclass from a genius.

Deniece Williams trained to be an anesthesiologist at Morgan State before dropping out to sing. And "Let's Hear It for the Boy" from Footloose almost went to someone else. We almost lost Deniece Williams to medicine. And the Footloose soundtrack -- one of the biggest of the 80s -- almost had a different voice. Imagine the dance montage without Deniece.

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Soul in the Movies

Malcolm X 1992

Spike Lee's Malcolm X is three hours and twenty-one minutes of American history. Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' anchors the closing sequence -- a song written after Cooke was turned away from a whites-only motel, now soundtracking the life of a man who transformed himself from street hustler to international symbol. A change is gonna come. The film was the change.

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