During the show I got curious and googled Groundhog Day and I Got You Babe and it suddenly made sense, I'm an idiot and that was a nice touch.
Hahaha thanks, Jon. You made me feel less lonely right there. <3
Btw, are you, and/or
@Free Bally! and/or
@Popotte familiar with the Burke family, i.e. the original "First Family of Soul," whose first major hit was as "The Five Stairsteps?"
Now for the longest time my uneducated posterior thought that they were pretty-much just a 'one-hit-wonder' ala that one song above. Then somehow, YT of all entities connected me up to another song of theirs late last year, and I've been pretty-much blown away by my sheer ignorance upon how incredible these people were upon a multitude of amazing songs.
Okay, let's see a couple more of their hits:
Now, here's the thing--
This music might not seem at first blush to be as 'hit-like' and 'star-like' as some contemporaries, most famously Joe Jackson's singing group of his kids, but to me, there's something rather astonishing about the 5SS's songs.
Honestly? It's hard to pin down, exactly.
One thing I do notice is that listening to one of their songs for the first half-dozen to dozen times, it's like it's a completely fresh song every time. I can honestly say I've RARELY if ever experienced that before in my listener-hood about great artists, great songs, and however came betwixt.
It's like the Five Stairsteps, with *each* dadgummed song, reinvented how to narrate and phrase songs, handle tempo changes, plus how to creatively express melodies, meter, and all that other musical janky-junk. I mean, someone super-bright had to have been at the heart of that, is it not?
I'm honestly baffled that I've never seen this talked about before amongst fans & pro musicians.
These guys are... it's like even when they pull obvious style-elements from the previous era of songs, just listen to how Clarence Jr. refrains upon the key song line:
And the more you listen, the more you find!
