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I was looking for something in a smooth jazz vein today to chill to and remembered “On The Other Side Of The Tracks” by Vanessa Williams from her 2024 album Survivor. Continue reading “Sunday Slowdown: Vanessa Williams ‘On The Other Side Of The Tracks’”
I recently rediscovered the song “Late For Your Life” from Grammy Award-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter, whose work I’ve loved forever. Continue reading “Sunday Slowdown: Mary Chapin Carpenter ‘Late For Your Life’”
Running some errands with hot hubby Michael today, I heard this on the music system at one of the stores we visited and I found it impossible not to bop down the aisle. Originally performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, the song didn’t become a hit until Blondie covered the tune in 1980 for their Autoamerican album and took it all the way to number one, becoming an international sensation. Who can’t groove to this? Happy Sunday, folks.
I came across this track, “Prisoner,” from the soundtrack of the film The Eyes of Laura Mars and remembered how much I loved this edgier phase of Babs’ recording career. Featured as the love theme in the film, the single went to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Looking for sleepy Sunday, lazy morning music today I remembered Miss Reba McEntire’s stylish and vocally flawless rendition of the Etta James classic, “Sunday Kind of Love.”
A bit of intersectional awareness here: I’m currently staging South Pacific for San Diego Musical Theatre and Reba famously sold-out Carnegie Hall in June 2005 with a killer “Nellie Forbush” in the staged concert version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic.
Plus, Reba’s music video for “Sunday Kind of Love” is set in the 1940s during wartime as is South Pacific.
In 1988, Reba’s music video was nominated for “Video of the Year” at the Academy of Country Music Awards for the video below.
Happy Sunday everyone.