Top 45 45s

• Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang / One of the most orgasmic songs in pop music. A scintillating, hair-raising , subconscious delight that arouses, stimulates and nurtures. You can feel the steam rising off the asphalt on oppressively humid, hot summer day.
• If You Want Me to Stay - Sly and the Family Stone /
• Uncertain Feeling - The The /
• Mr. Destiny - Machine /
• This Is the Day - The The /  Picture yourself sitting by the Seine in a French cafe on a crisp spring day, waxing about home your life will be different henceforth...
• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Joan Osbourne / I love Jimmy Ruffin's version. But ,Joan Osbourne's version, featured in 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown' is a show stopper.
• Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo / What wrestler Ray Stevens would have sounded like if he sang.
• Christmas, Baby Please Come Home - Darlene Love  / Quite simply, the greatest single ever made. It’s all here.
• Ain’t Nobody Straight in LA - Miracles /
• Keep Searchin’ - Del Shannon / You are driving in a convertible, top down, on Highway 1 near the ocean on a simmering summer day with the breeze blowing in your hair, searching ,searching, searching...
• Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band /Cliché, yes, but this song changed my life. The rocker became a dancer.
• 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 - Gary Toms Empire / One of the happiest, most joyful songs ever with a killer organ break. Blow your whistle!
• That’s the Way I Like It - KC and the Sunshine Band / The best use of "uh-huh" in a song ever.
  Change - Paradise /
• I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - Ronettes /
• Over Under Sideways Down - Yardbirds /
• Say It Again - Danse Society /
• Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas /
• The Big Hurt - Toni Fisher / A big band singer overlaid over the first use of a synthesizer in a popular song.  One of the weirdest numbers ever!  Still trying to figure this one out.
• Me and Baby Brother - War / Simple groove, simple lyrics, an unstoppable trip to Laredo.
• All I Need - Temptations /
• Do I Love You - Frank Wilson / Motown's biggest mistake was not releasing this absolute masterpiece.
• Below Us, All the City Lights - Tower of Power / I cry every time I hear underrated gem from the best soul band ever.  The lush swirling strings, the haunting trumpet, the exquisitely-timed breaks--so many memories embedded in this song.
• Soulful Strut/Am I the Same Girl - Young-Holt Trio/Swing Out Sister /
• Nobody’s Baby - Reparata and the Delrons / Girl group supreme!  The ache in Reparata's voice when she says the word "touching" is peerless.
• Strange Feeling - Billy Stewart /
• Days of Wine and Roses - Henry Mancini / One of the most haunting songs ever. Sometimes context of a film makes a song even more powerful…such is the case here.
• Bad Luck - Social Distortion /
• Ask the Lonely - The Four Tops /
• Atlantis - Donovan / One of the catchiest choruses in all of pop music...once in your head, you can sing 'Way down below the ocean..." for days.
• I Want You - Earl Lewis and the Channels /
• Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe /
• Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds /
• Love’s Gone Bad - Chris Clark /
• One - Cast of ‘A Chorus Line’ /
• The Letter - The Larktones /
• I Love America (full) - Patrick Juvet /
• Be My Baby - Ronettes /
• Quick Joey Small - Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus / A bubblegum song about a jail break?  And one of the best snarling vocal leads in pop music annals by bubblegum royalty, Joey Levine.
• Who the Hell Are You - Madison Avenue /
• Wives and Lovers - Jack Jones / Arguably, one of the most sexist top 40 songs of all-time. But, there is major kitsch appeal to this Hal David and Burt Bacharach composition. Plus, Jones delivers the song with just the right amount of lounge lizard panache to make the tune more romantic than the lyrics demand.
• Are You Sorry - Thee Midnighters /
• Blue Monday - New Order /  The best new wave dance song ever...you can dance all night!
• Vehicle - Ides of March /  Big, brassy and bold with one of the best opening lines in the history of pop music!

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