THRILLS – An assortment of deeep cut party starters!
SPILLS – I make a huge mistake partway through the show!
CHILLS – Enjoy me being flustered for like 10 subsequent minutes. Grey Temples 36 has got it all! But that’s ok. No chance of fun without risk of failure!
Starting out this week we’ve got Eddie Spencer. A Montego Bay born, Toronto transplant, Spencer moved to Toronto with his ska band, the Shieks. Right here we have his Sam and Dave-chanelling 1968 b-side, You’re So Good to Me. Following that we have Canada’s Jackie Shane. A groundbreaking transgener artist, people with far more insight than me have written a lot about her, but she was doing this way back in the early 60s. Here we have her 1963 single, Comin Down. Next up are the Jackson Sisters, no relation to those other Jacksons, but this tune is more than a little Jackson 5-sounding. Here we’ve got Why Do Fools Fall In Love from 1976. Keeping with that theme, here’s We’re Two Fool in Love, released by Dyson’s Faces in 1975. This was a band opf revolving musicians headed up by Clifton Dyson, younger brother of Ronnie Dyson, most famous for singing the lead vocals on cast recording of the song Aquarius from the musical Hair.
Next up is Jamie Lidell and Enough’s Enough, this fantastic track is – oh, I ejected the cd. That sucks…
Well, how about a song from Grey Temples fave, jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey? Yeah! That’s the ticket! Home-Made Jam from her 1978 album Freestyle featured Stevie Wonder seriously honkin’ on bobo (which is the cool way to say “playing harmonica”).
Getting a little soft rock, with a touch of white-boy reggae, not something that would normally grab me, but Nite People by J. Michael Henderson is just too good. I really know next to nothing about this guy. I think I saw a picture of him once. He had a beard.
Next up is the incredible I Believe in Miracles by Italian singer Mark Capanni. Released in 1973, it didn’t make much of an impact until it was covered a year later by the Jackson Sisters, who we played earlier in the show!
Time to take one of Grey Temples many trips to Brazil!
Starting out we’ve got the one-two punch of Lemos E Debétio with their song Morro Do Barraco Sem Agua (1974) followed by a favorite of mine, Quero Pouco, Quero Muito (1983) by Filó Machado.
Moving ahead a few decades, we’ve got El Guincho and his song Bombay from 2023. This has been a long time fave of mine, except for a few years after I found out that it was featured in one of the Fifa videogames and I stopped listening to it for a hwile, because sometimes I can be an insufferable snob. This guy is also a pretty big-time producer now, having worked extensively with Rosalia, he’s also done production for Charli XCX, FKA Twigs, Björk, and more.
Hey hey! New Brunswick mega-talent Jon McKiel, how do you do?? Here we’ve got Still Life from his 2024 album Hex. If you haven’t heard it, do your duty!!
Oh man, Caroline Rose, Feel the Way I Want. Has this been my favorite for the past 5 years? Probably! This is a big time summer song for me. If you ever see me riding my scooter, dancing, shirt unbuttoned and flapping, with just a whisper of ass crack showing, this is the song I’m listening to.
Getting back into a disco/boogie groove, we’ve got the Universal Robot Band and Wanna Be Your Lover. Those backing vocals on the chorus are friggin’ tuff! Then we have the Jacksons (yes, those Jacksons) with Wondering Who from their 1980 album Triumph.
Which leads us into a party centrepiece, Laugh/Love/ Fuck by political hip hip group The Coup. There’s nothing I can say about this song that comes even close to the lyrics. Get amped. Then a track by my personal all time favorite MF DOOM, Rhymes Like Dimes. Listen, I can’t even start with DOOM, he’s the best. He’s the most interesting. He’s everything you want.
Finishing up with a little Canadian Rock, first off we’ve got Get Your Priest On by Hot One. This band features long time CanCon hero Emm Gryner. Towering Rock Action! And the, finally, Jon Epworth and the Improvements with Static Reciever. We’re definitely going to hear more about Jon Epworth on Grey Temples. An east coaster, he’s my favorite kind of mega-talent – the underrated kind!!
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