So the Bad Man came back.
And like a real life pantomime baddy, he swept onto the stage spewing bile and division in a series of specially targeted hate bombs... or "executive actions", as he likes to call them. That whole speech just reminded me of Macbeth...
It is a tale
Told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
It all just makes me very tired and very sad... especially when I log onto the book of faces to see a former colleague praising that inauguration speech and somebody else commenting "Why can't we have a leader like [him*]?"
*I can't even bring myself to type his name anymore.
The following morning, I was driving in to work and this track came up on the memory stick. It seemed apt.
I didn't know anything about Razzy Bailey before I heard this tune on a Country Soul compilation, so I was surprised to discover what a long and successful career he had, including three double sided number 1's in succession on the US Country Music chart, "a feat never accomplished by any other artist".
This is one of Razzy's earliest tunes, from his 1974 debut album of the same name... and it was a big hit on the Northern Soul scene too, for obvious reasons.
Fantastic record, but speaking from personal experience there is no real need to explore the rest of Razzy's back catalogue because none of it comes anywhere near this. "9,999,999 Tears" isn't bad but then there is a steep plunge to the likes of "Your Momma And Daddy Sure Did Something Right"
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