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Re: Excellent restraint Mike!
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2007, 08:35:17 AM »
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JoJo gets back to some California grass. And Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman, but she was another man -- there's a  doctoral dissertation on gender confusion in Macca lyrics, I tell ya.


er, I think her name is Loretta Martin, tho' I heard it that way for a long time too.
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The Drive, 3/20/07: 1969!!
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2007, 08:35:20 AM »
I wonder how much Carlos S. got for selling "Evil Ways" to Winchester.

"it's a WHOLE 'nuther smoke!"

BOS4 Jr Walker.
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The Drive, 3/20/07: 1969!!
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2007, 08:37:53 AM »
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA!  BOS5 Guess Who, "Laughing".
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Re: BOS Supremo!
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2007, 10:24:35 AM »
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Junior Walker!  "What Does it Take?"


My BOS, a truly underrated track.  Those big notes that open it knock me out.
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Re: BOS Supremo!
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2007, 09:49:25 PM »
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Junior Walker!  "What Does it Take?"
My BOS, a truly underrated track.  Those big notes that open it knock me out.

Just curious, who underrates this song?  Perhaps I'm so deliriously happy every time I hear it, it never occurs to me that it's not universally loved.  Is it?
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Re: Excellent restraint Mike!
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2007, 10:11:43 PM »
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JoJo gets back to some California grass. And Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman, but she was another man -- there's a  doctoral dissertation on gender confusion in Macca lyrics, I tell ya.


er, I think her name is Loretta Martin, tho' I heard it that way for a long time too.


And I heard it somewhere in between both of you: Loretta Marden.
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Re: BOS Supremo!
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2007, 07:36:40 AM »
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Junior Walker!  "What Does it Take?"
My BOS, a truly underrated track.  Those big notes that open it knock me out.

Just curious, who underrates this song?  Perhaps I'm so deliriously happy every time I hear it, it never occurs to me that it's not universally loved.  Is it?


LOL! I had the same thought last nite, but was too lazy to post. It shows up on many greatest-singles-of-all-time lists, if I'm not mistaken.

Although I will say that in the Motown family, Jr Walker is not immediately thought of by the average person, who has Supes, Tempts, Tops etc to choose from. But I recently got a great JW anthology and it's a delight -- some of his "forgotten" hits (including follow-ups to "WDIT?" like "Gotta Hold On to this Feeling") are killer.
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Re: BOS Supremo!
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2007, 07:47:14 AM »
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Junior Walker!  "What Does it Take?"
My BOS, a truly underrated track.  Those big notes that open it knock me out.

Just curious, who underrates this song?  Perhaps I'm so deliriously happy every time I hear it, it never occurs to me that it's not universally loved.  Is it?


Poor word choice -- I was going for "unfairly forgotten."  Heard it a lot in Pittsburgh growing up, but very rarely in the years since.
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