Never Can Say Goodbye

Awesome footage!! This song is in my head, 'cause Amber and I were watching an episode of Tales of the City recently, in which "Mouse" dances to the song in the Mr. Endup contest for a hundred buck prize.

Artist: Gloria Gaynor
Year: 1974
Rating: Luke Hot

And whenever this song arrives dans ma tête, it morphs into the excellent original Jackson 5 version. Yep, that's an adolescent Michael belting out those dramatic pleas of yearning.


Artist: Jackson 5
Year: 1971
Rating: Luke Hot

You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

Mmm, but Lou Rawls had one of the finest voices in popular music. This is one of the most indelible songs from my growing up years, such a perfect, soulful pop song. We all know by now that I'm not a big fan of the possessive sentiment in such cocksure lyrics as

You'll never find, it'll take the end of all time,
Someone to understand you like I do

...but who hasn't felt the grip of possession in the face of losing love? I've always thought of this song as the consummate male counterpoint to the powerful female perspective of the ultimate rise-like-a-Phoenix disco anthem I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. He thinks she'll never survive without him, and she thinks differently.

Thanks for the music, Lou.

Artist: Lou Rawls
Year: 1976
Rating: Hot!