You’re such a South Sider! Did you ever get to see her live?
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Yma, yes; Minnie, sadly no. And that has to do with their individual longevity: Minnie was taken from us way too soon.
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I just rediscovered a song that I used to LOVE when I was a youngster:
Oh, the 70s, what a decade you were.
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You think they picked the right winner? I was quite impressed with the performance of the supposed loser, and thought there were some significant misses in the performance by the supposed winner.
But I don’t watch the show, so perhaps I missed something by just seeing that clip.
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Yeah, you did; you definitely need some context.
Detox (the loser) wasn’t channeling Salsa, sexy, OR opera singer; on top of not bringing her A game all season, yet still remaining in the competition.
OK, I’ll take your word on that, since I really don’t know!
Yeah, you kinda need to follow the entire trajectory to get a feel for how the queens are judged.
I recommend checking it out sometime online; it’s highly entertaining, definitely the best ‘guilty pleasure’ in trash tv.
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Seeing Yma in print always reminds me of YMO…
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Someone mentioned bell-bottomed pants in another thread, so I was tempted to post Loudon Wainwright’s homage to the garment, but this is probably more appropriate for this thread:
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O_O
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A couple of months ago I heard an archival interview about this song (it might have been an archival interview with Rafferty); it was evidently inspired by sitting at a table during a frustrating negotiation between an agent and a producer.
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Stuck in the Middle, you mean?
Gawd, I hope you don’t mean the dead skunk song.
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Yes, of course, though I wouldn’t put it past LWIII to have a similar take on music producers.
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Someone said 80s is OK. Mel Appleby would have been 50 this last month; the official video of my favorite Mel&Kim song seems to be blocked in the US, but here it is anyway. (This unblocked link might work for a while.)
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Cab Calloway. 100% concentrated essence of cool.
This is cleaner than the title sounds. 
And one for the lateness of the hour… somewhere…
Saving this for my go-to-sleep sounds:
And some Charles Mingus, just to wash over y’all…
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Noice.
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Yeah, fell down the rabbit hole a bit there. 
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Here’s something slightly more modern. But the sax is just as saxy.
and another for the road:
Also very saxy. But weirder.
The sax guy in Thief is actually guilty of saxual assault in his youth.
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