VHS or Beta ("You Got Me"; sorry, but I think this guy has issues)...
...Happy Birthday to Me'Shell NdegeOcello ("Cloud Nine," with Motown's Funk Brothers and some other great singers - not the whole song, but close enough)...
...Dinah Washington would have been 83 today (a nice slide show accompanies "You've Got What It Takes" with Brook Benton, courtesy of YouTuber JEBauder1948 - this lady had seven husbands and lived only as far as 39)...
...and Charlie Parker would have been 87 today ("Hot House" with Dizzy Gillespie, from 1951-52 during the bebop heyday; Parker especially was a reference point and influence for so many artists - I can't believe the emcee asked if "you boys" had anything else to say...Strom Thurmond would have been pleased).
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This was and still is great music. Her rendition of "What a Difference a Day Makes" was the song that played when I danced for the first time with the boy I would marry. We danced to it at our wedding. Beautiful song...so sad she left us so soon. So sad so many have. My grandkids don't want to hear me reminisce, they know what they missed.
Sound like they may not know, really - thanks for sharing the remembrance.
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