After a bit of a hiatus, Thomas and Mike are back with a new episode of the Jheri Curl Chronicles podcast. This one backtracks slightly from Episode 17, and the twosome discuss the #2 R&B hits of 1984. What are those songs, you ask? Tina Turner “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Did you know that Tina once shot Randy Jackson (of The Jacksons)? Jocelyn Brown “Somebody Else’s Guy” (with a correction: Angie Brown sang on Bizarre Inc’s “I’m Gonna Get You”, but the song utilized a replayed portion of Jocelyn’s […]
Posts tagged "The Pointer Sisters"
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Slow Hand”
It took me a long time before I figured out how sexy a song The Pointer Sisters’ “Slow Hand” is. Hell, when this song was popular, I was 5 and had no idea what June, Anita and Ruth were singing about. I just knew that I liked the song. The rest of the American public liked it too, as it was the Sisters’ second single to reach the runner-up position on the singles chart. The song that held it off? […]
The Disco 100: Uh Oh, The Record Skipped (#70-61)
Um-something weird happened. I’m doing something really nerdy with my iTunes library. Thanks to a tip I found in a comment section on Popdose (by the way, Jeff and Jason, I had a dream the other day in which we all moved in together-WEIRD), I have decided to update every song in my library that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 with it’s chart position. I did not realize that futzing around with my library was going to affect my playlist, […]