I believe this is the first Award Show Sunday that predates my birth. As I’ve been on a Carpenters kick lately, I figured posting one of their several Grammy wins would be appropriate. What a category to win in, too? For Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus in 1971, they were pitted against four legendary groups-The Jackson 5, Chicago, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Beatles. Granted, their win sort of underscores Grammy’s historical bent towards the […]
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Blerd Appreciation: “A Song for You”
The first time I heard “A Song for You” sung by anyone was some time in the late Nineties, or it might have been 2000. I’d met some guy at a bar, and the ensuing seduction was a little more dramatic and drawn out than the average hook up. We got to talking about music, and I remember several things about the night. 1) He had a 200-CD changer (something I STILL want, even in the age of iPods), and […]
Ron Isley & Lauryn Hill Make Beautiful Music Together on “Close to You”
Some songs are impossible to mess up. I feel like Burt Bacharach’s “(They Long to Be) Close to You” is one such song-a timeless standard. I first heard the song back when I was a little kid, as performed by Diana Ross, and my collection has grown to include the most popular version by The Carpenters, as well as versions by Jody Watley (as part of a Carpenters medley) and Gerald LeVert (quite possibly my favorite version of the tune, […]