Hello and welcome to Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will. This week we continue our journey through singles that begin with the letter L. And if you happen to be listening to this via terrestrial transmission, you might like to know that you can find show notes and archived episodes of this program at vinylomatic(dot)com. Let us get things rolling with the bad girls of girl groups, The Shangri-Las.

All right. That set was pretty much all about the killer b-sides. We started things off with the Shangri-Las and their 1966 Red Robin Records single "Long Live Our Love". My apolgies for the poor sound quality of that a-side but hopefully it was made up for with the flispide, "Sophisticated Boom Boom". We also heard from Floridians Mercy and their bit of sunshine pop "Love (Can Make You Happy)" as well as the incindiary b-side "Fire Ball". That is on Sundi Records from 1969.
Up next we have the princess of percussion, Sheila E. and her 1985 single.

Indeed, we just heard a fantastic split on Coxsone Records from 1970. The a side was John Holt bringing us "A Love I Can Feel" and opposite that, "Longer Liver Man" by Hugh Black. Preceding that was Sheila E. and his royal purpleness bringing "A Love Bizarre", a 12 plus minute track on her album and slightly abridged spread across both side of this single. And of course it's released on Paisley Park. New age-y nerds may recall a Michael Hedges rendition of this very tune, which wasn't to shabby considering the genre.
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And now, back to the music. Are you comfortable? Headphones comfortable seated on your ears? Let's get all 70s FM gold.

Welcome back. If you cast your minds back to the beginning of that set, you will we recall that we heard from Gary Wright and his mellow groove hit "Love Is Alive" backed with "Much Higher". That is on Warner Bros. Records from 1975. We also heard an exceptional r&b track from Barbara Acklin. From 1968 on Brunswick Records we heard "Love Makes a Woman" along with "Come and See Me Baby". Fine stuff indeed.
We move into our final set of the episode with the ghost of Otis Redding.

Heck yeah. We just heard a super hot shot of blues from Little Sonny and his 1962 Excello Records single "Love Shock" and the b-side of "I'll Love You Baby (Until the Day I Die)". Speaking of mortality, we heard a posthumously released single by Otis Redding from 1969 on Atco Records. The a-side was "Love Man" and the flipside is a live version of his signature song,"Can't Turn You Loose".
That about wraps things up for us this time around. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, shoot an email to: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. As I mentioned at the top of the program, you can find show notes and archived episodes of this very show at vinylomatic(dot)com, as well as wherever you find quality podcasts.
Next time, I do believe we will actually make it into singles that begin with the letter M. Join me, won't you?