Month: January 2024

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).