Star Time #172: Barnabas Collins - Love Bandit
This week's episode is awash in novelties like gothic soap opera vampires (Fig. 1), prostitution rehabilitators, Boston monkeys, one group under two different names, and a higher-than-usual number of ampersands. It's also the final episode produced with Macbook Pro No. 2 (2018-2020), the departure of which we'll address next week with a gut-busting opening bit.
| Artist | Song | Year | Label | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | |||
| LaVern Baker | See See Rider | 1963 | Atlantic | 
| Carrie Grant & the Grandeurs | Take All of My Life | 1963 | New Art | 
| Jackie Opel | You're Too Bad | 1965 | Coxsone | 
| The Manhattans | Boston Monkey | 1965 | Carnival | 
| Rose Batiste | Hit & Run | 1966 | Revilot | 
| Lorie Burton | Yeh, Yeh, Yeh (That Boy of Mine) | 1965 | Roulette | 
| Donald Height | Talk of the Grapevine | 1966 | Shout | 
| Toni Washington | Breaking Lovers Hearts | 1966 | Kon-Ti | 
| Austin Taylor | Can't You See I'm Busy | 1964 | Sprout Artist | 
| Set 2 | |||
| Duke & Leonard | You've Lost Your Soul | 1967 | Stomp Town | 
| Billy & Betty | I Need Some Kind of Something | 1968 | Sag Port | 
| William Bell & Judy Clay | My Baby Specializes | 1968 | Stax | 
| James & Bobby Purify | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down | 1967 | Bell | 
| The Loving Sisters | Freedom Isn't Free | 1968 | Peacock | 
| Ralph Graham | She Just Sits There | 1968 | Up Front | 
| Keanya Collins | Barnabas Collins - Love Bandit | 1969 | Keanya | 
| Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson | We Got Our Bag | 1969 | SSS Int'l | 
| McKinley Mitchell | This Place Ain't Getting No Better | 1971 | Sandman | 
| Set 3 | |||
| Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler | Ten and Two (Take This Woman Off the Corner) | 1970 | Mercury | 
| The Volumes | Am I Losing You | 1970 | Karen | 
| Rena Scott | La-Te-Da (This Girl's in Love) | 1973 | Epic | 
| Geater Davis | I Don't Worry (About Jody) | 1972 | Luna | 
| The Quickest Way Out | Tick Tock Baby (It's a Quarter to Love) | 1974 | Karen | 
| 100% Pure Poison | Holes in My Shoes | 1974 | EMI (UK) | 
| The Violinaires | You've Been Good to Me | 1973 | Jewel | 
| Ronnie Dyson | Do What Your Heart Tells You to Do | 1970 | Columbia | 
| Set 4/Outro | |||
| Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes | Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby | 1975 | Philadelphia Int'l | 
| Beverly & Duane | Glad I Gotcha Baby | 1977 | Ariola | 
| Facts of Life | Uphill Places of Mind | 1977 | Kayvette | 
| Flashlight | Beginner's Luck | 1978 | Philly Groove | 
| Karen Pree | Painmaker | 1977 | MCA | 
| Philippé Wynne | Waiting on a Letter From Home | 1977 | Cotillion | 
| Side Effect | Time Has No Ending | 1976 | Fantasy | 

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