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R&B Flashback WNUR Radio 89.3FM
1:30pm-3pm CST Sunday 5.31.09 Playlist
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Summer Madness [Kool & The Gang]
Ice Cream Song [The Dynamics]
Brain Storm [Sweet Geraldine]
Take My Love [12” Melba Moore]
Don’t I Ever Cross Your Mind [12” Barbara Mason Radio Edit]
I Wanna Be Loved By You [Family of Eve]
Don’t Take My Shadow [Kings Go Forth]
The Drifter [Ray Pollard]
Can’t Get Enough Of You [Tyrone Edwards]
Gimme Little Sign [Brenton Wood]
The Easiest Way To Fall [Freda Payne]
We’ve Been In Love Too Long [El Anthony]
It Hurts So Good [Katie Love And The Four Shades of Black]
Make Love To Me (Babe) [Sweet Geraldine]
Good Times [Heardrums - Maker]
You Don’t Have To Worry [Doris and Kelly]
Nobody Knows [The Goldenaires]
(I Keep Singing) La La Ooh [The Lovations]
What I Want [The Precisions]
Underground [Secret Squirrel]
So Called Friends [J.J.Barnes]
An Earthquakes Coming (If You Don’t Straighten Up) [Black Velvet]
You Bring Out The Best In Me [Natural Four]
Sugar Daddy [The Jackson 5]
Still True To You [Gwen Owens]
Don’t Be Surprised [Lynn Williams]


9.9.2003. The passing of my best friend is when 45s became an actual personal collection. I left home and hand carried these discs of wax to another home, Chicago IL. I don’t have one home but multiple habitats. This is how I roll. Ever since I can remember…I enjoy all kinds of music and 2003 isn’t when I first owned any of it. I never really own any of these items in terms of rights and I try not to sweat it. Records are an expensive addiction. But there’s nothing better than hearing the OG. You’d be surprised how many people can easily flip out on 45s. I, myself, have to keep from letting it own me often. Money turns you green eyed when you hear about a 7” record that can be worth 100 grand. Popsike it. Manship it. The politics is too crazy to even touch upon. If there’s any advice I can give: Secret Squirrel it and enjoy it while you can. Feel enjoy. My gift and weakness is sharing but this is what I do. I had a beige and white Fisher Price player, which I have given to Laura Park (Best Illustrator). One of many friends I’ve met in Chicago that have helped shaped and changed my collection of music. The initial 45 collection consisted of Frosty the Snowman, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Gremlins, and Mickey Mouse Storybooks back when I was a kid. I still have these, perhaps for the memories but they can also work out for sampling purposes. After all, The Mickey Mouse Club has breaks!

Alas, any progress in time changes everything for me. I found this 2 Cassette House Mix set by Julian “Jumpin” Perez the other day and recalled back when the hardship was to sell original cassette tapes. 1987. I was only 7. I was nowhere near Chicago at this time but I recognized a lot of these tracks and that meant something to me. Being a graphic designer originally, I am reminded that it’s hard to sell a decent hardcopy of a CD. The same applies with books. I remember when I used to sell books on the internet. I made a decent living doing that. Nowadays the general population doesn’t want to own books. They can read everything online. Materials have turned digital and downloadable from the web. And damn, this is my second blog! If it’s this easy to create history, you could say that it is also easy to delete it, no? On the other hand, some things are still worth a lot to some people. I still love to see hand painted signs, homemade books, and antique vinyl. The gap between poor and rich is still there, isn’t it? We still have global warming and challenges in life. War still exists. Now there’s even Water Wars, too. This isn’t paradise and there’s so much music to make, change and to listen to. People need hope and dreams. I need motivation and music has always been predominant. People need a new sick tracks to make love to when all the songs sound the same. MPC’s and grooveboxes are still fun for me to play with even with the advancements of Serato and Traktor. Nothing stops here. We still have new and old music to look forward to and remix. There are so many recordings throughout the history of music and it is about finding real things out of the piles of clones we have covered them with.

WORDS BY CTOLENTINO