I just love this one. Dennis was one great singer.

Get On Up -- WRAG Radio Raggedy

I spent a few -- well actually a lot of -- hours in my closet trying on my favorite spring time outfits. And what a disaster that was. Everything had shrunken to a size that I had never ever worn. Those parasitic calories must have eaten inches off all the waistbands ... Unbelievable! 

So I dug out my old exercise playlists from a time before COVID to shrink myself to the reduced size of my clothes ...  

Since I am 100 percent sure, I am not the only person with that problem, I thought I'd share my favorite exercise playlist with you all.

Just keep dancing and moving to the music, eat a little less -- and you'll lose a few pounds. Show those calories who's the boss in your closet! 

Playlist

Intro

00:18 Sweet Soul Music -- Arthur Conley

02:33 Every Time I Turn Around (Back In Love) -- L.T.D. 

07:03 Party Time Man --The Futures

10:42 Baby Come Back --The Equals

13:18 Don't You Believe Him -- Ivory Joe Hunter

15:39 Get On Up-- Tyrone Davis

19:23 Build Me Up --The Foundations

22:15 Stand By Me -- Johnny Adams 

28:50 No More Heartaches -- The Beltones

Outro

            

UB40 -- "Red Red Wine"

I had a wonderful day today.Went shopping at my favorite outdoor shopping mall. It was just so, so great. All the people out there: families with little babies, the Hippie generation out and about, young couples holding hands ... and the Texan sun shining on us all. 

And then I had this wonderful red wine with dinner tonight ... Life is just good! 

Ronnie Dyson -- "She's Gone"

Now, Ronny Dyson cannot hide his ties to Broadway. Ever since he sang lead on "Aquarius," in the musical "Hair" in 1968, his singing shows where he got his vocal training. 

He was born June 5, 1950 in Washington, DC and died way too young on November 10, 1990. 

 

 "She's Gone" is not one of his biggest hits, but definitely a fine piece. Together with "Familiar Strangers," which I included in my last podcast, today's post ranks among my alltime favorites. Perfect vocals matched with first rate musicians -- that's art. 

 Between 1970 and 1983, he released seven albums. 

"She's Gone" was the B-side of "I Don't Wanna Cry" (Columbia, 1970). 

And here's "Familiar Stangers" again -- just so you know what you've missed if you didn't listen to my last podcast on MixCloud.

Enjoy!