Beautiful, Mysterious Melody - "You Can Have Me Any Time" - DAZZ and Boz Scaggs

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On to the most profoundly elaborate, angelic, hypnotic pieces of mood music ever performed by Boz Scaggs, who is definitely a balladeer, a versatile singer, and one of The RadioDAZZ guy's favorite performers. Boz is a perfectionist - his first major market album was produced by David Paitch and then his subsequent works by Michael Omartian.

My friend Joyce started by getting me hooked on "Lowdown," and my appreciation for this this amazing talent has grown ever since. My appreciation for Joyce never has left -- she was there for so much of the music of my life, and had introduced me to some of the greatest music I had ever known. Maybe the girl knew more about me than I knew about myself. Eventually, Uncle DAZZ was "Down Two, Then Left," and my teenage muse and I drifted apart -- physically, more than spiritually. I have always since thought of myself as an actor in her life's movie. Thank you, Mabes.

I wrote this comment on YouTube after hearing this magical song, and having to hold back tears of either joy or sorrow. Joyce taught me what "Bittersweet" meant by her example - in and out of my life - like a reluctant but loving muse:

Boz Scaggs - That delicate cul-de-sac signature voice, performing a song of almost infinite depth and utter beauty. It is a powerful hypnotic, drifting in and out, like the curtains on an early September afternoon. RadioDAZZ (that's me) thinks that virtually every one of your solo vocals has entered my heaving chest, and nests permanently inside my heart forever. Thank you for the feelings, the tears, the memories...but mostly for the choirboy who lets the song's beauty speak through him. - Douglas E. Castle

Listen to this song, and feel it to your soul's core. Just click on the link or on the YouTube player (if it makes and appearance) and enjoy this treasure beyond measure:

"YOU CAN HAVE ME ANYTIME"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1TFWYsS5HE


Thank you for reading, listening and feeling me. - DAZZ

p.s. Bless those of you who not only listen, but who share these pieces of heaven with your connections throughout your social networks.

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How Could I Let You Get Away? -- The Spinners - Beautiful Beyond Words

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The most profoundly beautiful song about lost love that I've ever heard is "How Could I Let You Get Away?" by the Spinners. The mood, the lyrics, the soulful harmony, the quiet vibes in the background, the fabulously eloquent electric sitar solo in the middle...I cried my fool eyes out the first time that I heard it. It never received enough airplay.

Please listen to every word, every nuance, every breath -- let it take you where it took me -- baptized in my own tears.

I was at a girlfriend's house (she'd turned me on to the album), and I lied to her and said that I had to run outside and "check something in my car." I was ashamed that a song could touch me so deeply. I couldn't catch my breath. I should have told her the truth - but I was young.

When I came back inside, she asked me why my eyes were so red. I mumbled something about allergies...

I think that she's probably figured out the truth by now. Funny, too, because I think of her every time I hear this song.

Please listen. I hope that you'll hear what I heard and feel what I felt.

Just click to hear the Spinners perform "How Could I Let You Get Away?" Young love is so very precious, and life is so fleeting. Take this moment, and dedicate it to an old love -- maybe a first love... you never really get over it. We just tuck it away in a special corner of our souls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJjj8rlz_Vs&feature=related




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Jr. Walker - "What Does It Take?" - Best All-Soul Break Song.

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Cover of Junior WalkerJr. Walker and The All Stars performed "What Does It Take?" and created a soul classic of epic proportions. 

It is a mixture of wonderfully harmonized vocals (in thirds) and fabulously razzy, funky, soulful sax instrumentals.  Walker's sax sings and almost cries out for mercy in the upper register.

This song has an absolutely unique signature bass line (going from 5 to 1 / going from the fifth to the root instead of the straight ahead "root on one" that typifies so many songs) which is beautifully suspenseful... anticipatory off-balance with a syncopated feel to it. The vocals are crying-down-on-your-knees and heart wrenching.

The tune, with its bass intro and distinctively melodic saxophone riff has been a sacred break song (between sets, between jockeys, or before cutting over to commercials) on radio shows for more than 40 years -- and is still going strong today.

During the vocal, listen to the part where one of the two vocalists speaks out (looking toward the sax), "gonna blow for you, baby." So much passion in a jam of only three chords.

Recorded live in the studio without any tricks, overdubbing or over-production. Just some real soul men singing straight from the heart, begging for a woman to defrost and hand over the keys to her love..."

Please click on either the link or the player below and let the sound warm you. Dazz always says, "Let the music take you." Bathe in this magical song's feeling of warmth. Enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPQe8JYJns&feature=related







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Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - DAZZology -McFadden & Whitehead

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This song is pure, disco soul. Simple, with an unforgettable signature bassline and some early-stage synth drums. McFadden and Whitehead did something great with this recording. It is so wonderfully simple, yet so artfully, richly arranged, orchestrated and performed. You could hear it in every disco and juke joint (the few that were left, anyway) in my home state.

Back when my soul was whole, I would play this with some buddies, and we would jam on the three-chord pattern for fifteen to twenty minutes at a clip. We once jammed to this thing to the point of blisters and drenching sweat in Davey's basement (an obscure location in Long Island) to a capacity crowd of nine people, and I actually heard (through a third-party source the following day) that one of the girls thought I was handsome. God, that had me shining for a few days...little things used to mean so much.

This song was truly representative of its time, and a wonderful, confusing time in my life.

Let it get under your skin and encourage you. Click on the link, or on the mysterious, ephemeral YouTube video player. Did I hear "Amen?"

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The Village People - Great, Really.

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Everybody loves to make fun of The Village People. Maybe they were somewhat over-the-top with their outfits, theatrics and moronic simplicity, but yet they cranked out some terrific ground-breaking disco that made for great dancing. Genuine pumpin', thumpin', do the bumpin' music, filled with life and optimism.

RadioDAZZ comes out of the guitar case and confesses his love for some of the flashy, get-you-moving music that these dazzling (garish) disco icons made so popular. How many bar mitzvahs, weddings and other catered affairs were graced by "YMCA" or some other Village People staples in the early 80s? You can grimace and you can frown, but you can't put these pump-it-up pioneers down. A collection of several of their very best tunes (IMHO) follows for you pleasure. Re-visit them. Bring on your Huckapoos, hairspray, Halston, Polo, leisure suits, platform shoes and jewelry. Men - open those top two shirt buttons. Ladies - whirl, twirl and drive the boys crazy. Did somebody say "ultraviolet lights?" --- they make your Hendrix posters pop.

This collection is dedicated to the omnipotent Tony, Tina, Guido, Chica and Babette. Don't light a candle for them...burn some incense. Maybe even throw a toga party!

You know what to do:

SAN FRANCISCO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9zykkP-8-c



YMCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

GO WEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo&feature=relmfu

MACHO MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO43p2Wqc08&feature=relmfu

IN THE NAVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw&feature=relmfu

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On a personal note, from RadioDAZZ (and its shameless founder, Douglas E Castle):

I love music. It is the greatest passion in my life, and it always has been. It has helped to keep me alive during the darkest, loneliest nights of my soul. It has marked, to memory, every romance, every break-up, every victory, every success, every failure and every event of significance throughout the course of my existence. Music has been my truest, most trusted companion - at its best, it is the soul's unfettered outpouring of emotion -- and at it's worst, you can turn it off. Period.

I listen to it, I play it, I dream to it. My life is a meandering stream of segues from song to song. Music is a great gift for all of Humankind. It is a form of communication and connection that is unparalleled in its power, its poignancy, it provocativeness.


I don't care where the music comes from, or who writes, sings or plays it. If I like it, I simply like it. Race, gender, sexual preference, lifestyle choices, politics...these are not even remotely relevant to me. If I like it, if it moves me, I savor it for what it is, in and of itself, separate and apart from all other considerations. I permit music to speak to my heart, and do not try to "evaluate it" with my limited mind. The music takes me away; at least, for a short while.


My profound love of music leaves neither time nor tolerance for hatred, petty politics or social commentary. I do not sit in judgment of the composer, arranger, producer, or artist, except with respect to the final product - the music that moves me.

For the record (no pun intended), and as far as we (RadioDAZZ and I) are concerned, the music sings its own song, and it speaks for itself.
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