"Shop Around" is a song originally recorded by #theMiracles on #MotownRecords' Tamla subsidiary label. It was written by Miracles lead singer #SmokeyRobinson and Motown Records founder #BerryGordy. It became a smash hit in 1960 when originally recorded by the Miracles, reaching number one on the #Billboard #RAndB chart, number one on the #Cashbox Top 100 Pop Chart, and number two on the Billboard #Hot100 chart. It was the Miracles' first million-selling hit record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGXa3FiXKM
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmS961An4c
Today's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday!
Today's mood is "imaginative". Post a song or songs that put you in mind of being imaginative! They can help you be creative or be imaginative or creative in some way. You can interpret it however you wish!
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to use the tag #MoodMusicMonday and include the mood "imaginative".
The Brain DJ is in the 1950s, in New Orleans, in an R&B joint.
Smiley Lewis, "Lillie Mae" (1952 B-side to "The Bells are Ringing")
"Leave the Door Open" is the debut single by the American #superduo Silk Sonic, consisting of #BrunoMars and Anderson . Paak, from their studio album #AnEveningWithSilkSonic (2021). The song was written by the artists alongside #BrodyBrown and #DernstDMileEmileII, who produced it with Mars. It was released on March 5, 2021, by #AftermathEntertainment and #AtlanticRecords for #digitalDownload and #streaming. A #PhiladelphiaSoul, #RAndB, and #pop song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIyNAsmGrl0
"He Loves U Not" is a song by American girl group Dream. It was released on August 22, 2000, as the group's debut single and is featured on their debut album, #ItWasAllADream (2001). The song was written in 1999 by #SteveKipner, #DavidFrank and #PamelaSheyne, with the former two doing the production. A #dancepop and #RAndB song, "He Loves U Not" is about a girl confronting another girl trying to steal her boyfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZZ_I_PwF8
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a #ballad written, produced, and performed by American #RAndB singer and songwriter #StevieWonder. It was a major international hit, and remains Wonder's best-selling single to date, reaching number one in 28 countries worldwide. The song was the lead single from the 1984 soundtrack album #TheWomanInRed, along with two other songs by Wonder, and scored number one on the #Billboard #Hot100 for three weeks from October 13 to 27, 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIa7NRT64us
"This Is How We Do It" is the debut single of American singer-songwriter #MontellJordan. It was released by #DefJamRecordings on February 6, 1995, as the lead single from his debut studio album of the same name (1995). The single was Def Jam's first #RAndB release, and is Jordan's #signatureSong. The song is a tribute to #SouthCentralLosAngeles party culture in the #hipHopSoul style popular at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTY31zVUqfs
"Too Hot" is a song recorded by the American band #KoolAndTheGang for their first #Platinum-selling 1979 album #LadiesNight. It was written by George Brown and Kool & the Gang and produced by #EumirDeodato and Kool & the Gang. The #GoldCertified single reached number five on the US US #Billboard #Hot100 and number three on Billboard's #RAndB survey in the spring of 1980. #RecordWorld said that the song "offers a midtempo pace with delightful keyboards & vocals."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0F1KDvfBI
Today's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday!
Today's mood is "distracted". Post a song or songs that put you in mind of being distracted or is distracting or maybe seems to get distracted at some point. There's no wrong answers!
Remember to use the tag #MoodMusicMonday and include the mood "distracted".
"You and I" is the debut single by #RAndB/#funk musician #RickJames, released in 1978 from his debut album, #ComeGetIt. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B charts and reached number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100. "You and I" also peaked at number three on the disco chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--VVhElZsPo
♬️ Just announced: Fri Jun 13, 9:30pm: WHY 2K
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"All This Love" is a single by #DeBarge, released on October 17, 1982 in the US and July 22, 1983 in the UK. The song was released as the third and final single from their second studio album of the same title on the #Gordy label. The single would help DeBarge rise to #RAndB stardom. A cover version of the song was recorded by #PattiLaBelle on her 1994 #gold album #Gems. A video for her version was also filmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeHgzymbOrw
♬️ WHY 2K at DNA Lounge starting now!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/05-16.html?utm_source=sp_ma
#dnalounge #why2k #90spop #2000spop #hiphop #randb #dancehits #mashups #indie #sanfrancisco
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Here the Brain DJ's choice this morning, dusted off:
Fats Domino, "The Fat Man" (1949)
♬️ WHY 2K at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri May 16, 9:30pm!
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#dnalounge #why2k #90spop #2000spop #hiphop #randb #dancehits #mashups #indie #sanfrancisco
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"Breathe Again" is a song by American #RAndB singer #ToniBraxton. It was written by #KennethBabyfaceEdmonds and produced by Edmonds, #LAReid, and #DarylSimmons for Braxton's first album Toni Braxton (1993). Its lyrics evokes a sense of #nostalgia from a relationship that has run its course. The #ballad was released as the album's second #single on October 6, 1993, by #LaFace and #AristaRecords. It received mostly positive reviews from #musicCritics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTVRp9L0T4I
"Listen
Now once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came and it soon departed
And you know he never
Showed his face again
That's why your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keep on lifting me (love keeps lifting me)
Higher (lifting me)
Higher and higher (higher) …"
Imagine that your kindness will have that kind of effect …
Jackie Wilson, "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (1967)
"Sweet Thing" is a song performed by American #funk and #RAndB band #Rufus with vocals by band member #ChakaKhan. As a #single, it peaked number five on the US #Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. #MaryJBlige recorded her version, which charted in the United States and New Zealand in 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJVlmyv4jg
