I heard this song when I was growing up and as with many songs of those childhood days, I’d hear them, like them, not know who did them and have them lurk in the background for years. Of course then I get all grown up and I know me John P Kee, Kirk Franklin, Vanessa […]
Read More DMCD Songs – I’m Goin’ Up YonderYesterday I did a funny. I know you weren’t paying attention, but I was and I laughed on your behalf. The funny was in the line ‘I’m that kind of friend’, which was a humorous quip about another song title that Walter Hawkins is famous for writing. It’s this song you see. you get the […]
Read More Walter Hawkins Tribute – He’s That Kind Of FriendImagine a love so true and pure that it captivates the heart, stimulates the mind but most importantly converts the soul to becoming that true and that pure. Imagine life previous to that with fractured expressions of love that too often involves disappointment and despair. Imagine life where love was all too fleeting and never […]
Read More Holy One – Tramaine HawkinsListening to this song now after all those years since it first lodged itself in my brain it sounds dated. It sounds like it belongs to another time and another place. Something about styles of music having changed in the interim period would under other circumstances see me give this song a wide berth. Yet […]
Read More I Am Determined – Tramaine HawkinsIt’s the early 1990’s, possibly even the very late 1980’s, but if it is that late, they can’t get in and we’ll have to leave it at the early 1990’s. At the time I was being very conscious of the music played by my sister and my mother. I remember seeing the album cover of […]
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