\nEleven months to the day since Sandra died. Time flies even when you’re not having fun. I thougt I’d keep it light today by just sharing some of the songs that would always cheer her up.\n<\/p>\n
\nSandra had always been a Paul Weller fan, but never more so than during his Style Council days.\n<\/p>\n
\nFrom the Style Council’s Long Hot Summer it’s only a short step to Roy Ayers’ Everybody Loves the Sunshine:\n<\/p>\n
\nRoy Ayers is one of those jazz\/funk crossover artists that made the seventies such an interesting musical decade. The Crusaders are another example; their greatest hit Streetlife being not quite like their other work… Here they are at Montreux in 2003, with Randy Crawford:\n<\/p>\n
\nI’ve talked about how much Sandra liked the Brothers Johnson’s version of Strawberry Letter 23<\/a> before, but here’s Shuggie Otis’ original version:\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\nAs for the Brothers Johnson, another favourite was Land of Ladies, which always reminded her of driving through France on a family holiday with the album on which this song appeared the only cassette available and hence being played over and over.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\nStevie Wonder was another huge favourite of Sandra’s. Y’all know what this is.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\nNot quite as sophisticated as Stevie Wonder, but certainly as funky was Johnny “Guitar” Watson, who had had a long career already before he reinvented himself in the seventies. Here he is on Soul Train:\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\nSpeaking of funk and reinvention, Chaka Khan got her start with this lot, Rufus, long before she became an eighties pop diva:\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\nLet’s leave with another summer song by another favourite, The Isley Brothers’ Summer Breeze:\n<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven months to the day since Sandra died. Time flies even when you’re not having fun. I thougt I’d keep it light today by just sharing some of the songs that would always cheer her up. Sandra had always been a Paul Weller fan, but never more so than during his Style Council days. From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,27,1468,242],"tags":[1675,2492,1676],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","category-sandra","category-video","tag-funk","tag-sandra","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs for the Brothers Johnson, another favourite was Land of Ladies, which always reminded her of driving through France on a family holiday with the album on which this song appeared the only cassette available and hence being played over and over.\n<\/p>\n
\nStevie Wonder was another huge favourite of Sandra’s. Y’all know what this is.\n<\/p>\n
\nNot quite as sophisticated as Stevie Wonder, but certainly as funky was Johnny “Guitar” Watson, who had had a long career already before he reinvented himself in the seventies. Here he is on Soul Train:\n<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of funk and reinvention, Chaka Khan got her start with this lot, Rufus, long before she became an eighties pop diva:\n<\/p>\n
\nLet’s leave with another summer song by another favourite, The Isley Brothers’ Summer Breeze:\n<\/p>\n
Eleven months to the day since Sandra died. Time flies even when you’re not having fun. I thougt I’d keep it light today by just sharing some of the songs that would always cheer her up. Sandra had always been a Paul Weller fan, but never more so than during his Style Council days. From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,27,1468,242],"tags":[1675,2492,1676],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","category-sandra","category-video","tag-funk","tag-sandra","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}