Friday morning highlights:
WSIE 88.7 FM
- Chicago Sunset-Charlie Musselwhite (The "Sesame Street" theme, recast as a blues harmonica instrumental.)
- Summer Rain-Hiromi (I'm inclined to like just about any piano piece with this energy level and ascending and descending patterns.. This is some smart, snappy piano and saxophone synergy.)
KCLC 89.1 FM
- The One Thing-INXS (The band's first hit, and it deserved to be a bigger one in 1983. "The One Thing" has one of their strongest hooks and uses the saxophone effectively.)
WFUN 96.3 FM
- Another Sad Love Song-Toni Braxton (This 1993 hit creates an appropriate mood for wallowing in one's heartbreak. I'd be curious to hear Anita Baker cover it.)
KLOU 103.3 FM
- Total Eclipse Of The Heart-Bonnie Tyler (The rasp in Tyler's voice makes her emoting sound all the more sincere here.)
