the five stairsteps - danger! she's a stranger (1970)

starbuck - moonlight feels right (1976)

flo & eddie - keep it warm (1976)

jim sullivan - jerome (1970)

francis the great - look up in the sky (1977)

francis the great a french/cameroonian kid singer in paris, lighting up this afro funk track! the rare album was recorded in 1977, but only recently re-released in 2015 on hot casa records + is now featured on spotify if you have the right kinda "discover weekly" algorithms.

rachel sweet - it's so different here (1978)

joe cocker - space captain

al green and chicago - so tired of being alone (live in studio)

i have to cross-post this everywhere ❤ ❤ ❤

haruomi hosono - bara to yajyu (rose & beast) (1973)

when i woke up this morning, i had this song playing in my head. the up-and-down bass riff was haunting me. it felt like i had either dreamed it up, or it was a song that my brain was pulling up from a long long time ago, something formative that had been wedged in my subconscious and dredged up during the night.

then i remembered that i had been listening to haruomi hosono yesterday, and went through my listening history to see if the track could be found. i pressed play on this one and there it was -- the song! the dream vision!

miharu koshi - love step (1978)

this performance is so great! this was miharu koshi's debut single that started a long career. more info on her here:

http://kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/2013/01/miharu-koshi-love-step.html

EDIT: video is down :( here's another video of miharu, in her spunky new wave phase:

southern comfort - take one fear at a time

hard to find info about this group, other than they were active from 1970-1972... can't find anything physical, but their album is on spotify!

fleetwood mac - dreams (take 2) (1976)

this is a more stripped-down version of "dreams," as nicks and buckingham worked together to flesh out what would eventually become the wall of sound that this song eventually became. the final cut is perfect in what it evokes: "crystal visions" and dreams; life advice from your inner voices; baptismals into new chapters of your life. this take is rather nice on its own terms, though: the beautiful simplicity of stevie nicks' voice dancing across the thin layer of bass and guitar underneath. it's clear that she put a lot of thought into her phrasing and voice here. you can feel the impact of every line...

leo sayer - you make me feel like dancing (1977)

delta 5 - mind your own business (1979)

arthur russell - habit of you

from the compilation of his previously unreleased tracks, put together by chris taylor of grizzly bear in 2008. this is such a good tune!! so glad to have stumbled across it!

roger simard - p.s. special (1977)

jesse green - easy (1976)

claude denjean - wave (1976)

the impossibles - easy to be hard (1975)

nice!!

tortilla factory - shamtime (1978)

unreserved praise for this track!!