How strange and wonderful life can be
I got stuck while brainstorming last week and turned on the Motown. A YouTube sequence went from the Supremes' Baby Love to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Your Precious Love to (one of the best music videos of the '60s) their Ain't No Mountain High Enough to his Got to Give It Up.
Hours later, the lyric "how strange and wonderful life can be" popped into my head, from Marvin's Ain't That Peculiar. But when I played the song at home, the lyric wasn't there. I listened three times through, then Googled the lyrics. It wasn't there. Didn't fit at all. Days passed before I realized I hadn't even listened to that song that afternoon.
Then realized I had the lyric wrong. The real line was "how sweet and wonderful life can be," and of course it was in Let's Get It On, which I hadn't heard that day online but instead the night before in the car.
That's a long way to say music was strange and wonderful last week.
Jakob Dylan's NPR Music Tiny Desk concert, featuring friend Dave:
The Stones' Plundered My Soul, a more modern side of Exile sessions:
Hanson's (yes, that Hanson) Thinking 'Bout Somethin' surprise fun:
Back to Marvin, Aretha Franklin's cover of You're All I Need to Get By:
To file under strange-but-not-wonderful, Mary J. Blige's Zep Whole Lotta Love. But that's all right. Mary now gets a fresh week, and so do we.
May 15th, 2010 at 8:35 AM
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