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bandcamp friday today. a soul record for the morning. mike james kirkland, "hang on in there" (1972), on bryan records, a label he and his brother robert started in california. before that, his group the censations had two singles in the r&b top 50. john legend and the roots covered the title song in 2010. stream → https://www.as-if-radio.com/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post cover: hang on in there, luv n' haight reissue (orig. 1972) #SoulMusic #BandcampFriday #AsIfRadio

ebo taylor - "heaven" (1977). ghana, for tonight's jukebox. ran in coffee.first at 7:15 this morning. in 1962 taylor took his highlife band to london and fell in with fela kuti. back home: house guitarist and arranger at essiebons. highlife guitar, horns with afrobeat weight. usher and ludacris sampled it in 2010. he died in february, at 90. https://www.as-if-radio.com/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post cover: ebo taylor, essiebons 1977 #JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld #AsIfRadio

missed at 7:50: leo's sunshipp - "give me the sunshine", 1978. kenny stover wrote the first draft of marvin gaye's "let's get it on", then made this with johnny simone and alvin few. simone died of cancer in his thirties before it was done. lyons pressed what existed: four vocals, four instrumentals. one record, whole career, still a rare groove classic. https://www.as-if-radio.com/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post cover: we need each other, lyons 1978 #JukeboxFridayNight #RareGroove #AsIfRadio