Saturday, Saturday, Ever-Lovin' Saturday

Having been in the world of retail for about a bagillion years and now being unemployed, days tend to run into one another with no separation, no punctuation not even a different inflection in the way one would pronounce the individual day of the week.  One big mass of time strung together with, if one is lucky, periods of sleep as the only way to tell one from the next. My point here is, weekeneds usually don't mean anything special to me anymore.

Not this weekend! I have really been looking forward to this weekend all week, something I rarely let myself do.  Tomorrow, I get to spend the day with my best bud Scott during the day and his family in the evening. YAY!  (Yes, he is taking me to my SECOND gun show.  shuttup) Today, I have an unexpected treat!  I get to spend the day with THE Lori Rome. Quite simply, Lori Rome is one of the most incredible people I have ever met and she should be running her own country!  We are going to eat (I am making a pot roast, something I have been craving for a while now, with oven baked mashed potatoes, fresh green beans with bacon, onions, garlic and bread crumbs and Yorkshire Pudding!  That is something I have not had in a million years that my Mom used to make us when she would make pot roast.  Steven reminded me of this yesterday and, well, now it is a'happenin'), drink and flesh out a concept idea for a movie that I am hoping to pitch this week!  Keep your fingers crossed kids!

So, whilst the roast is a'pottin'(?) and the potatoes are a'baking, I figured I would start today's music fest. Now, without further delay, here they are folks...Today's 10 Tunes.

(Click here to listen to clips of these songs)

1.  Pilot Of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore 3:15 (Island Records) Oh that sweet, tight, four part harmony that opens this gem is so happy and fits the mood of the day perfectly! "Don't waste my time chasing sleep"  Amen sistah!  Boy o boy, there was so much good music in 1979. Alot of the songs from yesterday were also from 1979!  In 1979 my Dad gave me a DC Comics Superhero Collector's Stamp Book.  Each new stamp was released over a period of time and I would collect them, put them in protective plastic sleeves and adhere them to the corresponding hero in the book!  I always associate that book with going to Nan's in Toms River.  We would get there, have lunch and I would patiently await the words, "Well, there are a couple of things I need from the store!"  That meant going to Caldor and THAT meant, NEW STAMPS!  Everytime I hear this song, I think of Nan and that stamp book, which my Dad has kept safe for me all these years! This song is just so magical to me!

2.  Go All The Way - Raspberries 3:10 (Capitol Records) Isn't childhood innocence a wonderful thing?  Imagine being a little kid, loving a song so much that you would sing along to it at the top of your lungs, play air-guitar to it only to find out, 20 some odd years later, that it is a song about, again, editting for the chillruns, "getting lucky"!  Basically, when the lead singer has actually spit the marbles out of his mouth so we can understand him, he is telling us that this girl he is with is begging him to Go All The Way!  Dirty, dirty stuff folks.  That said, they did have a great rocking sound and I love those guitars!!!  So, cover the kids ears and rock out to this one!

3.  That's The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson 4:25 (Virgin Records) More colored vinyl folks!!!  This time it is translucent red!!!  That alone is enough to make me chair dance (which I am. shuttup) This is one of my all-time favorite Janet songs. "like a moth to a flame burned by the fire/my love is blind can't you see my desire" Oh, maybe this is what the girl from the previous song was actually saying to him!  Good line!  Oh so many outrageously GREAT memories associated with this song! Annette, Harold, dancing all night long, playing this whenever I DJed, a slow funky groove that got people grinding!  Soooo hot! This whole album is Janet at her very best!  Just thinking this one over....this song is dirty as was the previous song.  Only difference is, this one was not pretending to be anything but dirty!  hee hee It's playing again and I am dancing again.  See you in a few minutes.

4.  Downtown - Dolly Parton 3:19 (RCA Records) From Janet to Dolly...it's a natural progression! Here's another record I haven't played in forever.  I forgot what a fun remake this is.  Well, it's Dolly so, "how can you loose?" It has such a great beat to it and her voice is so fun and flirty!  I think I even a 12" remix single of this!  I remember it being played alot in the clubs!  I love the trademark Dolly at the end, "Git-on, git-on, git-on downtown!"  Only real difference here for me is, in my head, she is referring to Downtown Nashville and Petula was talking about Brooklyn. (seriously, everytime I heard Petula's version I thought about A&S in downtown Brooklyn)

5.  Holiday - Madonna 3:50 (Sire Records)  Ahhhh Madonna from when we all thought she was a black chic singer! (I know that was not politically correct.  Send all of your emails and comments to ithoughmaddonawasblacktoo.com) This is, was and always will be one of my favorite party songs! You can't help but move to it. A tight simple production and she sounds great....raw, rough and slightly off-key!  Who cared?  We were dancing our asses off!  I remember this song from before the whole Madonna look exploded and it was just a great song. GREAT piano improv at the end!

6.  Vacation - Go-Gos's 2:59 (I.R.S. Records) WOW This is really turning out to be a party Saturday, isn't it?  You HAVE to bop and dance when you hear the Go-Go's, you just have to!  Such amazingly fun girl-power, guitar driven fun!!! Chair dancing and pretending to be surfing!  Oh crap!  glug glug glug

7.  Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! 3:51 (Columbia Records) Trust me kids, this was not planned.  But it is kinda funny.  Get it?  Go-Go following the Go-Go's?  No?  Ok.  (shuttup) Long before George Michael was caught loitering in bathroom stalls, he really knew how to put out...great pop songs that is!  The combination of his amazing voice and slick, bouncy production really sold this song and man did it explode when it came out! (Wait, I guess I shouldn't have mentioned the bathroom stalls thing cause now everything I am saying sounds dirty.  Sorry.) Another great, silly party song!!  Doing my 80s dance out of the room to go check on the pot roast.

8.  The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats 2:44 (Backstreet Records) What a great, goofy song!  Do you remember the episode of Friends where Monica and Ross do "The Routine"?  That's what I think of everytime I hear this song!  Mechanical, robotic moves. "Everybody look at your hands"????  Huh?  Ok.  This is not a shallow man here folks, if your friends don't dance, well then they are no friends of his! Again, this brings back such cool memories of being way too young to be going out in NY!  (I am so sure my brohter cringes everytime he reads that!  Sorry Steve, just part of the magic!)

9.  Is This Love? - Alison Moyet 3:59 (Columbia Records) I told you not to forget her name, didn't I?  This is one of my favorites of Alison's. I love her voice. It is soothing, comforting and exciting all at the same time.  I think I said this last time but it bares repeating, she writes almost all of her music and always seems to stay interesting, relevent and, well, exciting!  I love the keyboards and violins in this song!

10.  Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder 3:53 (Tamia Records) Horns blowing, party continuing!  Nothing to say. this is a perfect song.  "You can feel it all o-o-over/you can feel it all o-o-over people!" Quite possibly my favorite Stevie Wonder song and a great way to end this party!

Well, dinner is done and my day with THE Lori Rome has come to an end.  Got some work done, ate way too much and had a fantastic time with the Rome-i-licious one! I hope you all had a great Saturday (weekend by the time this gets posted) and that listening to the clips of these songs will bring back some fun memories of staying out dancing all night with someone special.  I would love to find a club that plays this kind of music, we could all meet there and dance the night away. Go tell someone that you love them and then grb em and dance with em!  Not sure if there will be a Sunday post yet or not, all depends on the weather (snow = no Sunday with Scott = blog post.  you dig?)!