There Needs To Be A Word For This Kind Of Awesome
The kind of thing when you hear a song for the first time in many years and it sounds super-cool. Makes you wonder why it wasn't your favorite when it was a hit.
Today, I was listening to one of the Time-Life R&B/Disco CDs I bought after the Florida trip and a song from my past just happened to catch me perfectly and knock my proverbial socks off. So why WASN'T it on my favorites list back then? Good question. Dunno if I can answer it here and now.
Maybe I'll post the video here via the Vending Machine Of Awesome. But I'll have a guessing game for YOU first. I'll give you some clues and you can guess the Artist. (Either the name of the band, or the name of the lead singer, who is a celeb in her own right.)
* I've posted a video of the band before in the Vending Machine Of Awesome, but not one of the lead's solo songs.
* The lead's NAME is used as a lyric in the title track of one of her solo albums. This song also featured Stevie Wonder in a supporting role. (Two reasons why this won a Grammy?)
* Another of her solo hits became, for a while, the theme song for one of the most popular shows on American TV...after it had been covered by another R&B star.
* Members of the band played backup on one of Michael Jackson's breakout solo hit songs. The lead also made a cover version of one of Michael's songs.
Enough clues? I'll decide on a prize appropriate to the winner. Watch this space!
Today, I was listening to one of the Time-Life R&B/Disco CDs I bought after the Florida trip and a song from my past just happened to catch me perfectly and knock my proverbial socks off. So why WASN'T it on my favorites list back then? Good question. Dunno if I can answer it here and now.
Maybe I'll post the video here via the Vending Machine Of Awesome. But I'll have a guessing game for YOU first. I'll give you some clues and you can guess the Artist. (Either the name of the band, or the name of the lead singer, who is a celeb in her own right.)
* I've posted a video of the band before in the Vending Machine Of Awesome, but not one of the lead's solo songs.
* The lead's NAME is used as a lyric in the title track of one of her solo albums. This song also featured Stevie Wonder in a supporting role. (Two reasons why this won a Grammy?)
* Another of her solo hits became, for a while, the theme song for one of the most popular shows on American TV...after it had been covered by another R&B star.
* Members of the band played backup on one of Michael Jackson's breakout solo hit songs. The lead also made a cover version of one of Michael's songs.
Enough clues? I'll decide on a prize appropriate to the winner. Watch this space!