“California Soul”^Youtube (1969) by Marlena Shaw

There are those records which invite you to perform grand gestures and theatrical movements on the dancefloor. This is one of them. A very spacious sound from the sunny side of the United States. Happy music.

My sensibilities in literature, film and the visual arts may sometimes be more to the gloomier side, in music I love bright, happy and danceable (exceptions notwithstanding).

Shaw is best-remembered for the use of her vocals in the 1996 “Remember Me” by Blue Boy ^Youtube.

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