‘Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite’ – I thought that
song choice was going to make me a legend, I really did! I thought it
would go down as the greatest curveball in the history of The Sunday
Soul Affair, but I don’t think it necessarily made
the impact I was hoping for – particularly when I hit play and had
Curly CJ gawking back at me cheerfully boasting to have never heard the
song before.
As much as a hero as Curly CJ is, and as much
fun as I have hanging out with him, I do love it when he’s away and I
get to fill in for his show as well – totalling a four-hour marathon
session starting at 8am all the way ‘til midday. The
curveballs are a regular feature to CJ’s show, and the ultimate rule
that defines a curveball as CJ would define it is ‘a song he wouldn’t
normally play’. I usually like to extend that definition into ‘a song I
wouldn’t normally play… that’s going to make
you smile’. The song also has to have relevance to the genres, so
obvious contenders for curveballs like ABBA, Take That, etc aren’t valid
entries.
I’ve filled in for Ceej quite a few times on his
show and my previous curveball submissions have included the Rocky
theme song, as performed by The Menahan Street Band, ‘Licence to Kill’
by Gladys Knight (I was ‘Skyfall’ bandwagon-ing),
and a mash-up of Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ with the instrumental to Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ (which is actually pretty awesome!).
‘Goodnite Sweetheart’ was recorded by The
Spaniels in the 1950s and obviously popularised by the 80s classic,
‘Three Men and a Baby’ (which apparently CJ has never seen). I am
kidding a bit as it actually got a pretty good reaction from
people who were tuned in. I’ve yet to ask CJ if The Sunday Soul Affair
budget will go so far as to reimburse me for the 69p I spent on the
song so may have to bide my time on that one
J
In the meantime, for your listening please, feel
free to regale yourselves with this wonder from The Spaniels, and, as I
don’t post up The Sunday Soul Affair playlists in my forum pages,
here’s the playlist from Sunday 17th February
below.
Hour #1
'People Get Ready' - Curtis Mayfield
'Love Is More Than A Wedding Day' - Cody ChesnuTT
'Washed Up' - Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers
'You For Me and Me For You' - The Right Track
'Don't Waste This World Away' - Maceo & All The King's Men
Covers:
'Baby This Love I Have' - AAries
'Soon I'll Be Loving You Again' - Joe
'I Can't Help It' - Soul Cycle f/t Mavis 'Swan' Poole
'This Woman's Work' [live] - Maxwell
'Still In Love With You' - Sade
Hour #2
'Show Us How You Fly' - DJ Spinna f/t Christion Ulrich
'No Disguise' - Modaji f/t Jag
'Rocking You Eternally' - Jazzanova f/t Leon Ware & Dwele
'Love and Revolution' - Nicola Conte f/t Melanie Charles
'At First Glance' - [re:jazz] f/t Mediha
'Walk On' - Chris Dave f/t Aaron Camper
'Back Stabbers' - Ronnie Foster
'Blessed is the Woman' - Shirley Brown
'Springtime Smile' - Portrait
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