Star Time #69: Your Sweetness Is My Weakness

If you ever wondered what might be my chronological sweet spot where soul music's concerned, this show basically covers it: from 1968 to 1976 (with '77 and '78 thrown in for good measure). A lot of rarities and deep tracks in this episode. Two songs featuring Ashford & Simpson in some capacity. An old Fatboy Slim sample. The Maskman still dealing with unfaithful subordinates. Partying with two "r's." Late-era Stylistics, an R&B band from Liverpool, hard heads and a sore behind. Also, the South Sound branch office is forcibly evacuated.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Ronnie Mitchell	Soul Touch	1968	Spectrum
The Maskman & the Agents	One Eye Open	1968	Dynamo
Rhetta Hughes	You're Doing It With Her–When It Should Be Me	1968	Tetragrammaton
Sir Guy & the Rocking Cavaliers	Funky Virginia	1969	DPG
Otis Clay	Baby Jane	1969	Dakar
The Moments	Not on the Outside	1968	Stang
The Four Tops	Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)	1970	Motown
Set 2
The Isley Brothers	I Know Who You Been Socking It To	1969	T-Neck
Rufus Thomas	The Preacher and the Bear	1970	Stax
Alice Clark	Don't Wonder Why	1972	Mainstream
Just Brothers	Sliced Tomatoes	1972	Music Merchant
Roy C	I Caught You in the Act (Neighborhood Scandal)	1972	Alaga
Chuck Jackson	Roller Coaster	1973	ABC
Black Nasty	Getting Funky Round Here	1973	Enterprise
Lyn Collins	We Want to Parrty, Parrty, Parrty	1973	People
Set 3
Ashford & Simpson	Everybody's Got to Give It Up	1974	Warner Bros.
Cash McCall	Hard Head (Makes a Sore Behind)	1974	Paula
Jay Dee	Your Sweetness Is My Weakness	1974	Warner Bros.
Ronnie Dyson	One Man Band (Plays All Alone)	1973	Columbia
Gil Scott-Heron	Lady Day and John Coltrane	1974	Flying Dutchman
Deniece Williams	Watching Over	1976	Columbia
The Dynamic Superiors	Shoe Shoe Shine	1975	Motown
Set 4/Outro
Pamoja	Oooh, Baby	1975	Lotus Land
Maxine Nightingale	(I Think I Wanna) Possess You	1976	United Artists
Millie Jackson	You Created a Monster	1977	Spring
Real Thing	Whatcha Say, Whatcha Do	1978	Pye (UK)
Joan Armatrading	Opportunity	1977	A&M
The Stylistics	Baby, Don't Change Your Mind	1976	H&L Records
The Staple Singers	Let's Do It Again	1975	Curtom