Smiles
April 15th, 2015, 13:24
... could be trouble.
But not when it's Percy Sledge singing that great song. Too bad, so sad, no longer ... he died yesterday.
I remember like it was yesterday when me and my little hand-held yellow transistor radio (god!!! I loved that thing more than words can say): it kept me sane during my first job ... walkin' up and down the highway in Brampton Ontario with a huge ~ bigger than me! ~ sandwich sign advertising a new subdivision just down the road a-way. That song (and Percy's sweet growly voice, along with a very righteous guitar in the background) was played by CHUM, Toronto's music station ~ everyone listened to CHUM, a no one if you didn't ~ pretty well once every 15 minutes (it was a GIGANTIC hit). That opening 2-second organ riff makes it instantaneously the-one-and-only.
God!!! I loved that song.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/ ... .html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/music/percy-sledge-who-sang-when-a-man-loves-a-woman-dies-at-74.html?_r=0)
[youtube:1p47fs66]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lp7FtJXp7k[/youtube:1p47fs66]
Perhaps, not by much, the only one better to listen to when carrying a sandwich sign would have been dear old Patsy Cline and her slew of incredible #1 hits ... god!!! I loved her.
[youtube:1p47fs66]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOWX6b8HHw[/youtube:1p47fs66]
But not when it's Percy Sledge singing that great song. Too bad, so sad, no longer ... he died yesterday.
I remember like it was yesterday when me and my little hand-held yellow transistor radio (god!!! I loved that thing more than words can say): it kept me sane during my first job ... walkin' up and down the highway in Brampton Ontario with a huge ~ bigger than me! ~ sandwich sign advertising a new subdivision just down the road a-way. That song (and Percy's sweet growly voice, along with a very righteous guitar in the background) was played by CHUM, Toronto's music station ~ everyone listened to CHUM, a no one if you didn't ~ pretty well once every 15 minutes (it was a GIGANTIC hit). That opening 2-second organ riff makes it instantaneously the-one-and-only.
God!!! I loved that song.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/ ... .html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/music/percy-sledge-who-sang-when-a-man-loves-a-woman-dies-at-74.html?_r=0)
[youtube:1p47fs66]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lp7FtJXp7k[/youtube:1p47fs66]
Perhaps, not by much, the only one better to listen to when carrying a sandwich sign would have been dear old Patsy Cline and her slew of incredible #1 hits ... god!!! I loved her.
[youtube:1p47fs66]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOWX6b8HHw[/youtube:1p47fs66]