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I ended up going down a rabbit hole of Temptation songs and ended up at https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/temptations-songs-best-ranked/. I didn’t recognize You’re My Everything and when 0:44 hit, I KNEW I heard this triplet before:

And it was Tracks of My Tears from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles I was thinking of:

I’d like to think that both the Temptations and Smokey shared musical ideas during this time in the mid-60s and influenced one another. Or maybe this is a generic phrase. Anyway, Motown during that time – what a time to be alive.

There’s always been a few lines in that song that I could never quite figure out what the exact lyrics were. Using the video above was quite a revelation. I do not pretend to know why I thought what I heard made any sense.

What I heard	Actual Lyrics	Difference Rating
cozy little home on the country	cozy little home out in the country	😐
can be your love birds lost	can visualize it all	😂
or too real in your scenes	far too real it all seems	😂
and love is	her love is	😐
when her arms unfold me	when her arms enfold me	😐
I hear her tenderness so deep	I hear a tender rhapsody	😮🤣

For instance, from a kid’s animated show called PJ Masks:

Pick It Up! is a really fun documentary about the very tiny window that was 3rd wave ska. Awesome use of Buck-o-Nine’s My Town at 1:35.

A google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=pick+it+up+documentary) provides some links to view it for free using Plex (as of 1/2024).

I stumbled upon this video from George Collier’s Youtube channel and I’ve now listened to this a countless number of times. Since it’s so popular on Youtube, there are several commentaries and reactions to this, even one by Patrick Bartley himself.

But I don’t think I’ve seen anyone address why Joe Saylor starts singing at the very end of his drum solo. The video link above should take you to 12:50 in the video. He’s definitely singing part of the lick Patrick is about to play.

So is he singing because Patrick missed it? Was Joe early?

I see Patrick looking back to see where the bassist and trumpeter are so it feels like a cue was missed somewhere, but that’s what this makes this so fascinating. The band continues seamlessly and song continues and everything still sounds great. How do professional jazz musicians do this?

I knew that many of the filming locations for the very first Jurassic Park were set in Hawaii. And I’ve always wondered about the location where the helicopter first approaches Isla Nublar.

Most Google searches suggest the Na Pali Coast on Kauai but I couldn’t find the little rock island that you see on the left in the video above. And by “find” I mean using the 3D view on Google maps and examining the entire Kauai coastline.

And that’s because this shot is not from Kauai, but Maui. This spot is known as Keopuka Rock or Jurassic Rock.