Star Time #55: Things Are Gonna Get Easier
The 55th episode of Star Time is the last one produced in my now-former home of Columbia City, the South Seattle neighborhood my family and I lived in for nearly ten and a half years. The dark underbelly of a boomtown economy has forced us outside the city limits. None of this figures in this episode until the last 15 minutes, though. Before that, you get a perfectly pleasant lineup of '60s and '70s R&B songs (some actual hits!). Next week will be the first show from our new location, but unlike Amazon's second headquarters scramble we're not forcing American cities into a bloody PR war to decide where we're going. We're already there, you see. Long live Columbia City.
| Artist | Song | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | |||
| Etta James | Seven Day Fool | 1961 | Argo |
| The Andantes | (Like a) Nightmare | 1964 | V.I.P. |
| The Apollas | I'm Under the Influence of Love | 1967 | Warner Bros |
| Gloria Jones | Tainted Love | 1965 | Champion |
| Sly & the Family Stone | Ride the Rhythm | 1968 | Epic |
| Pic & Bill | You Walk So Fine | 1969 | Better (Spain) |
| Keanya Collins | I'll Get Over It | 1968 | Blue Rock |
| Betty Everett | 1900 Yesterday | 1969 | UNI |
| Set 2 | |||
| Marlena Shaw | California Soul | 1969 | Cadet |
| Marvin Holmes & the Uptights | Grab This Thing | 1969 | UNI |
| The Latinaires | Society | 1970 | Cotique |
| The Temptations | I Gotta Find a Way (to Get You Back) | 1969 | Motown |
| Society's Bag | Let It Crawl | 1972 | Warner Bros. |
| Terry Callier | Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun) | 1972 | Cadet |
| Billy Byrd | Lost in the Crowd | 1973 | Scream |
| Laura Nyro & Labelle | It's Gonna Take a Miracle | 1971 | Columbia |
| Set 3 | |||
| Carl Carlton | Everlasting Love | 1974 | ABC |
| Brother Soul | Cookies | 1974 | Leo Mini |
| Minnie Riperton | Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down | 1974 | Epic |
| War | Me and Baby Brother | 1973 | United Artists |
| Nina Simone | Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter | 1974 | RCA |
| The Natural Four | You Can't Keep Running Away | 1974 | Curtom |
| Dooley Silverspoon | Game Players | 1976 | Seville |
| Set 4/Outro | |||
| KC & the Sunshine Band | You Don't Know | 1974 | TK |
| Automatic Man | My Pearl | 1976 | Island |
| The Four Tops | When She Was My Girl | 1981 | Casablanca |
| Spinners | I'm Coming Home | 1974 | Atlantic |
| The Main Ingredient | Rolling Down a Mountainside | 1975 | RCA Victor |
| The Five Stairsteps | O-o-h Child | 1970 | Buddah |
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