Star Time #45: Key to the Highway
This is the last everyday, basic, meat-and-potatoes, Triscuits-and-spray-cheese Star Time of the year, as next week we're having an '80s show and we're wrapping up the year with the Christmas show after that. So here's yer standard but sturdy soul revue for the week, featuring indiscriminate lumping, honky tonk popcorn, a manifesto, some quality wootie-te-woo, electric frogs, hippy snakes, DY-NO-MITE!, and something from Archie Bell & the Drells. They're from Houston, Texas. And they not only sing, but they dance just as good as they walk.
| Artist | Song | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | |||
| The Embers | You Can Lump It | 1963 | Act IV |
| Janice Christian with Johnny & the Charmers | Just a Bad Thing | 1964 | Swan |
| Darrow Fletcher | The Pain Gets a Little Deeper | 1965 | The Groovy Label |
| Jimmy Holiday | The Turning Point | 1966 | Minit |
| Marlena Shaw | Let's Wade in the Water | 1966 | Cadet |
| Spyder Turner | I've Got to Get Myself Together (Before I Lose My Mind) | 1967 | Good Time |
| Fortson & Scott | Sweet Lover | 1968 | Pzazz |
| The Isley Brothers | This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) | 1966 | Tamla |
| Set 2 | |||
| Bill Doggett | Honky Tonk Popcorn | 1969 | King |
| Archie Bell & the Drells | Tighten Up | 1968 | Atlantic |
| Carolyn Franklin | Boxer | 1969 | RCA Victor |
| Tyrone Davis | She's Lookin' Good | 1969 | Dakar |
| Gloria Lynne | If You Don't Get It Yourself | 1970 | Canyon |
| Rhetta Hughes | Gimme Some of Yours (I'll Give You Some of Mine) | 1969 | Tetragrammaton |
| Tina Britt | Key to the Highway | 1969 | Veep |
| Abaco Dream | Life and Death in G & A | 1969 | A&M |
| The Volumes | Ain't Gonna Give You Up | 1970 | Karen |
| Set 3 | |||
| James Lewis & the Case of Thyme | Manifesto | 1971 | Legend |
| The People's Choice | The Wootie-Te-Woo | 1972 | Phil L.A. of Soul |
| Kool & the Gang | Electric Frog (Pt. 1) | 1972 | De-Lite |
| Timmie Rogers | Snake Hips | 1973 | Partee |
| Richie Havens | The Loner | 1974 | Stormy Forest |
| Isaac Hayes | Ike's Rap II/Help Me Love | 1971 | Enterprise |
| Set 4/Outro | |||
| Anthony White | Never Let You Get Away From Me | 1975 | Philadelphia Int'l |
| Tony Camillo's Bazuka | Dynomite (Part 1) | 1975 | A&M |
| Debbie Taylor | Just Don't Pay | 1975 | Arista |
| Man's Theory | You Talks a Good Talk | 1977 | MCA |
| Gypsy Lane | I Could Use Some Loving | 1978 | Drive |
| L.T.D. feat. Jeffrey Osborne | (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again | 1977 | A&M |
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