Birthday Month: Day 7

When I left work on Friday, April 15th -- for the last time until September!!! -- I posted this first song to Facebook and Twitter. So this leads to a string of Kool and the Gang here.

"Celebration"



They started out, however, in jazz, before moving into a more soul-funk sound...

"Jungle Boogie" (sampled in, among other hits, Madonna's "Erotica")



"Hollywood Swinging"



"Open Sesame" was featured in the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack...



When James "JT" Taylor became lead vocalist the band's sound became more disco-fied, and they had some of their biggest hits...

"Ladies Night'

My iTunes Shuffle Baker's Dozen 1-9-12

I was shuffling papers in work and my iPod was shuffling songs...

Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar

Angel (7” Mix) - Gavin Friday

Thin Line Between Love and Hate - The Pretenders

Hidden Live Track - Mark Weigle

Your Love Keeps Working On Me (MK Brooklyn Mix) - Jody Watley

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Morning Sunrise - Weldon Irvine*

Too Hot - Kool & The Gang

Did You See Me Coming? - Pet Shop Boys

Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright

I Should Care - Nat King Cole

Still Can’t - The Cranberries

Whatever We Imagine - James Ingram

*Technically this was a 1:18 clip of the song, as part of a mixtape compilation of summer-type songs by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie. It was available to download for free in 2010. I think I posted the link here at the time.

Summer's Over, Summer Playlist Forever

This is another of those delayed-by-travel posts. Since my last update I've added more songs to My Big Fat Summer Playlist. A few are from this actual summer, the rest are from summers past or otherwise fit the concept...

Beautiful People - Chris Brown (feat. Benny Benassi) (I feel a little bit guilty about liking a song sung by the woman-beater. It helps that I didn't actually pay for this one.)
I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
California Gurls - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg
Who Do You Love - Bernard Wright
High On Sunshine - The Commodores
Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO (ft. Lauren Bennett & Goon Rock) (Yes, I succumbed to the madness.)
Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts
Stare Into The Sun - Graffiti 6 (I saw this on one of the Logo music video shows, NewNowNext or its PopLab spinoff)
Summer Madness - Kool & the Gang
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) - Billy Ocean
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera

This brings me to 117 songs. As always, I'm looking for more. But probably not until next summer, unless I hear some old song that begs to be added.