I’d mentioned on the post for last month’s show that it was likely February’s show would be focused on love. Even though I largely feel Valentine’s Day is over commercialized, as a romantic it’s hard not to be focused on love during the month. I knew that I didn’t want to focus just broadly on “love,” but the dilemma for me was what form or type of love would I focus on? As time got closer to the show, I simply couldn’t decide, but I noticed that I was listening to some very specific types of love songs, and tried to sort out what the feeling was that was in theme. As the month went on, my mind kept going back to the previous year, and how at this stage in 2020, we all had no idea what was coming for us with the pandemic. I started thinking about the anniversaries that were soon to come, the last movie I saw in a theater, last time I was dancing with friends, last concert I saw, last time I went on a proper date. In the midst of that remembrance, I realized that all of the songs that I’d been thinking about as potentially using were about different forms of longing, more so, an intense yearning. And so, “yearning” became the theme and I started to solely think of songs that had that feeling, which leaned a bit heavier than normal on Soul. No predictions at this point for March. We’ll see where the muses take me soon enough. Until then, enjoy the show!
Moods In Free Time 014: Yearning
Playlist – Moods In Free Time 014: Yearning
The Visitors – The Juggler – In My Youth (Muse)
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Nolan Porter – If I Could Only Be Sure – Nolan (ABC)
MFQ (Modern Folk Quartet – Every Minute Of Every Day – 7” (WB)
The Precisions – What I Want – 7” (Drew)
The New Holidays – Maybe So, Maybe No – 7” (Soulhawk)
The Embraceables – Here I Go – 7” (Sidra)
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Johnny Hartman – I See Your Face Before Me – Songs From The Heart (Bethlehem)
Doris & Kelley – You Don’t Have To Worry – 7” (Brunswick)
Ponderosa Twins Plus One – Bound – 2+2+1 = Ponderosa Twins Plus One (Horoscope)
Steve Kuhn – The Meaning Of Love – Steve Kuhn (Buddah)
Al Green – Your Love Is Like The Morning Sun – Call Me (Hi)
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The Fabulistic’s – Absence – 7” (Scorpion)
Aretha Franklin – Daydreaming – Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic)
Sass – I Only Wanted To Love You – 7” (20th Century)
David Porter – Can’t See You When I Want To – WattStax 2: The Living Word (Stax)
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{closing theme} Tony Williams – Wildlife – Believe It (Columbia)