Star Time #130: Flying Easy

Some of the best Star Time episodes (the ones the Smithsonian keeps bugging me about anyway) feature songs from a compressed time frame. Whereas most episodes tend to cover material from a span of ten years or more, shows like this one, with songs from a tight 5-year window, sound like they were made by old-world craftsmen with fine Corinthian leather. So let's go on this flight through the '70s, when pilots were sexy and tarmacs were paved with gold, or more likely polyurethane.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Howard Tate	Little Volcano	1970	Lloyd Price's Turntable
Greene Sisters	When Will We Be Paid (For the Work We Did)	1971	Mankind
Annette Thomas	Nothing Is Everlasting	1972	Stax
Boz Scaggs	Monkey Time	1971	Columbia
Eddie Harris & Les McCann	Universal Prisoner	1971	Atlantic
Barbara Mason	Bed and Board	1972	Buddah
Set 2
The Persuaders	You Musta Put Something in Your Love	1972	Win Or Lose
Eddie Floyd	My Mind Was Messed Around at the Time	1971	Stax
Pat & Pam	I'm the One Who Loves You	1971	Our Own
David Ruffin	Day in the Life, of a Working Man	1972	Motown
Dionne Warwick	Check Out Time	1970	Scepter
Donny Hathaway	Flying Easy	1973	ATCO
Jimmy Cliff	Opportunity Only Knocks Once	1971	Beverly's Records
Quiet Elegance	I Need Love	1973	Hi
Set 3
The Chi-Lites	One Man Band (Plays All Alone)	1973	Brunswick
Millie Jackson	Hypocrisy	1973	Spring
Bobby Womack	Got to Get You Back	1972	United Artists
Ohio Players	Ecstasy	1973	Westbound
Black Ivory	I Keep Asking You Questions	1972	Today
Nolan Porter	I Like What You Give	1972	ABC
Stevie Wonder	Sweet Little Girl	1972	Tamla
Set 4
The Intrigues	I Gotta Find Out for Myself	1970	Yew
Frederick Knight	Pick'um Up, Put'um Down	1973	Stax
Riot	Just Beyond	1974	Motown
Annette Snell	Just as Hooked as I've Ever Been	1974	Dial
Bill Withers	Can We Pretend	1974	Sussex
The Meters	Birds	1972	Reprise
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes	To Be True	1975	Philadelphia Int'l