Artist	Song
Freakazoid	Midnight Star
Jam On It	Newcleus
Hangin' On A String	Loose Nds
Thighs High	Tom Browne
Feels So Real	Patrice Rushen
I'll Be Good	Renee & Angela
Murphy's Law	Cheri
Don't You Be Ashamed To Call My Name	Bohannon
Get Tough	Kleeer
Lovelite	O'Bryan
Double Dutch Bus	Frankie Smith
Say I'm Your Number One	Princess
Say Say Say (You Get The Best From Me)	Alicia Myers
Hey D.J.	World's Famous Supreme Team
Come Into My LIfe	Joyce Sims
Freeway of Love	Aretha Franklin

Comment:

I never stray far from the beats of R&B as this mix demonstrates. It captures my funky favorites from the early and mid-80s - a period when I was lucky to visit my brother Mike who lived in New York City. We shared an artistic bent and a love for music on the soulful side. He lived in the East Village and had great connections. The trips were always filled with breathless fun - a huge contrast from my life in Nebraska. While there in the summer of 1985, I became
entranced with a new song just breaking - Hangin' On A String by Loose Nds. It became the impetus for this mix of beats that will always move me.

Overlaid on the graphic of the vinyl LP (still prime delivery method for music in that day) are images from that trip: me overly tanned and overdressed in a red tuxedo jacket before a night out at Limelight and Area nightclubs, street dancers by art darling Keith Haring plus the mega-celebrity of the day, Andy Warhol, who I actually got to meet. Well, I was impressed - but he just gave me a smirk.

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