KXCI (Tucson, AZ)
- I Want To Be Happy-June Christy (Cool vibraphone backing for lyrics about caring for your significant other's happiness at home. If I'd known of this tune when I was at WEW, it would have segued well with Ella Fitzgerald's "Lover Come Back To Me.")
- You're Somebody Else-Flora Cash (Forthright lyrics about losing someone to an addiction or personality change.)
- Hearts And Bones-Paul Simon ("Hearts And Bones" sometimes gets overlooked in Simon's vast canon of excellent lyrics. It shouldn't, as its studio and live versions are well worth hearing.)
- Land Of...-St. Germain (Play a saxophone, the piano, or any type of percussion? Jump in and sustain this remixed-old-school-jazz groove for nearly eight minutes.)
- One-Paolo Parvan (Brisk piano and saxophone jazz.)
- Sunshine-The O'Jays (The lyrics look generic on paper, but singing them with this much conviction elevates them.)
- Cigarettes And Coffee-Otis Redding (The lyrics show thoughtful appreciation for the pleasure of a beloved one's company. Redding, as usual, sings with an abundance of feeling.)
- Good Morning Heartache-Diana Ross (I've praised Laura Fygi's breathy version of this before; that's the rendition that stays with me most often. Ross, however, recorded a nice take on it that was a minor hit in 1973.)
- No More Shadows (Live)-Erroll Garner (Garner had a talent for making a piano melody sound elegant and accessible while embellishing it in his own unique way.)
- Wishing Well-Terence Trent D'Arby (Thirty years later, "Wishing Well" is still just as fun to whistle as it is to sing. Actually, I don't sing or whistle all that well, but it's reasonable to assume this smash hit from 1988 still makes a lot of listeners perk up.)
