Episode 4 : Who Did It Best

Episode 4 of Groovin’ Together dives into one of the most entertaining corners of music culture: the art of the remake. Some songs are timeless, some are overdue for a refresh, and some… well, some should probably be left exactly where they are. In this episode, Shauntavia and her spouse explore all three categories with humor, creativity, and the kind of chemistry that makes listeners feel like they’re right there in the living room with them.

The conversation kicks off with a playful cold open that sets the tone immediately. One of them tries out a dramatic, over‑the‑top remake of a classic track, and the other jumps in with a quick critique that sparks laughter and sets the stage for the episode’s theme. From there, the duo welcomes listeners back, grounding the episode in the show’s signature blend of music, memories, and partnership. They recap the previous episode to keep the season flowing, then introduce the idea behind today’s discussion: imagining how iconic songs would sound if they were remade today.

The first major segment focuses on classics they’d love to flip. They choose a handful of well‑known songs and break down what makes each one special, then reimagine them with fresh energy. Maybe a pop anthem becomes a slow‑burn neo‑soul groove. Maybe a jazz standard gets a modern R&B twist. They talk tempo, instrumentation, vocal style, and even who they’d feature on the remake. Their ideas are bold, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful, giving listeners a new way to think about familiar music.

Next, they shift into a lively debate about songs that should never be remade. Each host picks one “untouchable” track and explains why any attempt to redo it would be a musical crime. The conversation is full of jokes, exaggerated scenarios, and playful disagreements—like imagining a beloved ballad turned into an EDM festival track or a soulful classic remixed with a trap beat. It’s one of the most entertaining parts of the episode, and listeners will find themselves laughing along.

The heart of Episode 4 comes in the segment where they choose a song that means something to their relationship and imagine what a 2026 remake would sound like. They talk about why the song matters, how it shaped a moment in their journey, and how life today would influence a new version. This part brings warmth and depth to the episode, reminding listeners that music isn’t just entertainment—it’s a soundtrack to real life.

We have pulled the songs for you and created a playlist of all the songs mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAtDhNqC3U7M

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hey guys, welcome back, welcome back to moving together, where we are dropping the needle on the new chapter in life. More love, marriage, travel, more antiquity, and most is important. I'm sure. We are here to give you some nerdy knowledge and just have a good old time. Before we get into the episode, I do want to remind you guys that we are available on all streaming platforms that support your favorite podcasts from Spotify, Apple Music, and more. We also have a website for you guys to go to Facebook, Instagram. So we are all out there. So anywhere that you want to catch us, please feel free to catch us. On those platforms, we do have a space for you guys for comments, how you like it, how you didn't like it, or any questions that you might have. So I did want to read out this particular question that came in. And it said, I thought this was also going to be about traveling after kids grew up. You guys talk about vinyls, and I really like that, but really want to get into the travel piece of it. So trust me, we will.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Don't fret. We'll get to it just a little bit. I'm sure it'll be a future episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

But for today, for those that heard the promo and for those that didn't hear the promo, our episode today is gonna be about who did it best, the original or the remake. Some we've been talking about over the last couple of episodes on different ways that we antique from the antique malls, going to restore, which was a crowd favorite. You guys really downloaded that one pretty good. Appreciate that. But there's also something called online auctioning, which we talked a little bit about with the eBay and the SC and even Amazon a little bit. So Dave, every once in a while, will do this online auctioning, and he'll get what are called lots where you bid on a grouping of different records, and it can be a cluster of anything from country, rock, RB, jazz, whatever the case may be, and then it gets shipped out if you win the auction. That's how auctions usually work.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

But sometimes sometimes, you know, you can go out there and people will send you something, you'll think you're getting one thing, and when you actually get the box of records, you might reach the side of the album cover and you might find something that wasn't supposed to be in there.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

That's right, that's right. So, this is what led us to this this category, this episode for today. So, in one of those lots, what was received or what was advertised was Walter Hawkins, which I love. That's that's my gospel side of me, and we'll get into that in some later episodes. And so, lo and behold, my surprise when we pulled out the record to see what condition that the record was in, it was not Walter Hawking's.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

No, it was not, it was actually Marvin Gay, which I like Marvin Gay too, but that wasn't what I was expecting at the time.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

But we listened to it anyway, it was kind of banged up. We looked up online the best way to clean up the record, so we did that and it played very well. It was Marvin Gay's Anthology Anthology, thank you so much, and it was really good. So the A side sounded great, and on the B side, as we were listening, the last song on the B side was Marvin Gay and Tammy Terrell. Rest in peace, my friend, rest in peace. But it was singing if this world was mine. Now, I was today years old when I when I learned that they did the song because I didn't know. It shows you I don't know everything. So I didn't know. And I was listening to the words, and I said, Oh, them words sound familiar. Oh yeah. And then uh I said, oh wait, wait, wait, wait. Luther Mandross did this with Cheryl Lynn. Oh yeah. Well, typical Luther, he took that song, but it did sound good. Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell. Don't get me wrong, don't come for me. It sounded great. But you know, Luther, Luther, he takes songs, he takes songs, and if and that got us going down die trail of another song that is Luther's, that didn't start off as Luther's, which is uh A House is not a home. As you guys may or may not know, this was originally a Dion Ward song that would that came out in 1964, and Luther redid that in 1981. And those songs, ironically, or not ironically, ended up getting duped again because as you know, a house is not a home was then later used in Kanye's Kanye West songs uh Slow Jamps uh with Jamie Jamie Foxx. Jamie Jamie Foxx. I I swear I have a memory, I swear I do. Jamie Foxx singing singing the lead on that one, and then also if this world were mine, was later used with that Kendrick Lamar and Scissors 2004, 2024 hit Luther. So those songs still live on today. And then it got me thinking, like, what other songs are there out there that were the originals versus the remakes that did did the remakes do it better, or do we give it to the original? You know, one of my favorite songs, Tainted Love, originally done by Gloria Jones, later done by Soft Shell, later on. The Softshell is the one that sticks out in my head, but Gloria Jones definitely brought her her um A game. And then Respect, for those that may or may not know, originally was done by Otis Redding in 1965 to later come out with Aretha Franklin in 1967, and to his own admittance, this little girl done took that song away from me. This ain't my song anymore. And then lastly, we have Dreams, which is a beautiful, beautiful song that's done by uh Fleetwood Max, but later became more of my favorite by Diane Reeves in 2014. She took in and made it a little jazzy hit. So that got us to talking. I wonder what our top 10 are gonna be. Who do you think your top 10 are gonna be? I know I got my list.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Shall we do a challenge? We can definitely do a challenge, but I'll let you know. Mine's not in any particular order, and I probably got around 10 uh songs, but if I have one less or one more, uh, that'll be okay. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

I I got about 10. So we're going to do a top 10 list on who did it best. The Shantavia and David version. Now, if you guys, after y'all listen to this, y'all think that we missed the song or what about this, that, and the other. Just let us know in the comments. We love reading the comments for it. But these are our top 10, and as you can imagine, it's a whole bunch out there, so it was very hard for us to come up with it, but I got it. So, again, in no particular order, but just the 10, just the 10. I'm gonna throw out my first song, which is God Bless the Child. Like that. Thank you very much. Originally done by Billy Holiday, and of course, this was done in 1941, and rumored as it came out as a heated argument that she had between her mother over money. She definitely added in the soul, and you could feel the pain in that song, and it's been redone many a times. But my favorite remake of this is the Jill Scott version of this that she did with George Benson and Al Giro in 2006, and the album is called Giving It Up, but she redid that uh God Bless the Child, and it was absolutely beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Yeah, I love that version of God Bless the Child. I just love the song by itself. So, you know, almost anyone, as long as you got a good voice, if you sing it, I'll probably like it. But Jill Scott definitely did a great job on that. So you're saying, yeah, Jill Scott was your preferred version. Jill Scott gets the win. Okay. She gets the win. Okay. All right. Well, I guess I'll kick off with my first one, no particular order. I'm gonna go with the 1980 classic RB, Am I Dreaming? Oh, that's okay. Atlantic Star, you know, back in the 80s, you know, they were there giving us that, you know, romance, smooth RB, quiet storm type music. You know, after all the, you know, if you're young, you know, you used to hear those, the rain on the radio. You know, I ain't gonna do it to y'all. But anyway, the car to come on and you hear the you hear the smooth sounds, and that's what you were hearing. Am I dreaming? That's a great, that's a great song. But then in 1995, Escape came out there with uh old school. And old school, they were they only had one song. I I can't I can't really tell you that they had more than one song. And the one song they had to share with Escape was Am I Dreaming? And they came out with a really smooth version. And so I always give a little bit of credit to the to the original version because you know, without the original, you wouldn't have the ability to make the remake. And so I always give the old version a little bit of a head start between which one I like better, but with the with the strength of the way that Escape sang those vocals, and old school gave it all you got from that 80s nostalgia.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

And don't forget about Keith Sweat adding in his little adding.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

Yeah, he had to do his little bit in there. So I'm gonna have to give it to I'm about to give it to Escape Old School and Keith Sweat for the who did it best.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

I like that one. I like that one. And I I love Atlantic Star, so that that definitely had to be a hard choice for you. All right, all right, here we go, here we go, here we go. My next one that I am throwing in is I'm in love. I'm in love. Now, I first heard the song on Mary J. Blodge album Mary that came out in 1999. And those that know me, and if you don't know me, know me. Mary J, that's it. That's that's I will buy blindly. I don't even need to listen to any prequels or anything. She she's had my heart since 1993, 94. Oh, I'm telling my age, and heard that song on there. But we were on one of our iconic road trips, and my husband started playing the gap band, I'm in love, and I said, wait, wait, wait. That's a gap band? That was a remake? Yeah, oh wow! So of course I had to go and listen to it a little bit. It came out in 1979, so 20 years down to the date in 1999, coming back out with Mary. It was tough because you know I like Uncle Charlie, but I had to still give it to my girl Mary. It definitely put a different meaning on the music, just putting a female's voice on that. So giving the nod, slight edge to Mary on that on that song. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

I did like the gap band version, I like Mary's version too. I know it's not my song, it was one of the songs I was thinking about putting on there. I actually gave it to the gap band. Oh I like that. I like Mary J. Bly, but it's not on my list, but it's one of those songs that I was thinking about to put on my list. But Mary's definitely strong. I ain't gonna say, you know, I don't want Mary's super fans to come after me, but yeah, but I like the gap band version. All right, the next song on my list I have is Something He Can Feel, and so Aretha Franklin originally released this song back in 1976 off the Sparkle soundtrack, and I believe that's a good movie, man. Mariah Carey try to redo it. The Sparkle, yeah, the movie, I think so, and it didn't quite work out for her. It didn't land, but yeah, but the 1976 version is good and everything like that. So the remake I'm going with in this case is the 1992 version by the uh group called In Vogue. So In Vogue, yeah, they came out with this version, you know, with their harmonies, with you know, with the video, everything just came together for them. And you know, Aretha's version is really good. Her background singers are really good, and I always like to give a little bit of a head start to the people who did it first, but I gotta give it to In Vogue and Version, and they had uh they call it giving him something he can feel, but but something he could feel.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Was it for the vocals or for the video? I mean it's a great video, it's a great video, but the vocals are good as well. I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, I would agree. Aretha did a thing. Aretha has a lot of hits. We'll keep going, we'll keep going. So sticking with the gap band, because I could not not stick with the gap band because they have so many great songs. Yearning for your love is my next selection. And for those that know, later on in 1988, my favorite, one of my favorite groups, Guy, redid that. And Aaron Hall sounded almost like Uncle Charlie, almost not quite. And surprise, surprise, I'm gonna give it to the gap band. That that that song definitely stays with the gap band for sure. But guy did their thing on it for sure.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Yeah, I mean, uh I would agree with you. You know, if I was gonna do it on my list, it's not on my list, but if I was gonna do it, I'd definitely give it to the gap band. But guy, yeah, they definitely did a good job of remaking that classic. All right. The next song I got up on my list here is 1986. Lisa, Lisa, and the coat jam came out with the classic song. All cried out. Now Lisa Lisa sang this song and it was so good, and just it was like a it was like a drama to hear them sing it. It was the melody, the pausing, I mean, they had it all on this song with full force, absolutely, 1,000%. Yeah, but when Allure, and they were actually being produced by Mike uh by Mariah Carey at the time, when Allure took that song, and I believe 112, yes, that was it. And that again, a lure's one of those type of groups like old school, they didn't have but one or two songs. They you know, bless them, they only had like one or two songs, but this one was a jam, and the production is like everything that Lisa Lisa Colt Jam had, and then Allure just took that and just blew it up, and it just sounds so rich and just uh it just it's just like I say, I give I give Lisa Lisa Colt Jam some credit, yeah. Cause they were there. Absolutely, but Allure and 112, they took it to another level, and that's what you gotta do to get the win. I gotta give it to Allure and 112.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

The production had all the drama that you it just sounds fuller, and it just if you get yourself in a quiet room and surround yourself by the speakers, by surround sounds, and just turn it up as much as you can without offending your neighbors or offending your neighbors, who cares? But just turn it up and just listen to it. Oh my gosh, that's on whoop! Yes, that almost went on my list. That definitely almost went on my list. So I'm gonna go. And Stevie Wonders song in the key of life, for anybody that's starting a RB old school collection, that is the album that you have to have. I so many hits is on there, and love and loves and need is definitely one of them. But a little group called Black Street, and here go Teddy Riley in here again. He's a genius, they redid that, and I almost forgot Stevie Wanda did that song, just the harmonies and just it's just wonderful. So definitely giving it over to Black Street, they definitely win that one. But Stevie, you know, you got my heart, man. You got my heart.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Yeah, I mean, for me, the Black you said Black Street, yeah. Black Street did a great version of that song. I ain't gonna lie. That one would have been tough for me if it was on my list. It was. I uh I mean, it's it's really I'm gonna call it a draw. I'm gonna call I'm gonna call it a draw because Stevie Wonder really did a great job on that track, and I gotta give him a little bit more credit for being the first one to do it. But if I didn't give it an extra credit, yeah, I probably would have given it to uh Blackstreet.

unknown 18:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

All right. My next song on my list is gonna be a song that was released in my uh back in uh when I was just a little one in 1977. A song called How Deep Is Your Love? Oh, yeah, yeah. So the Bee Gees, when they released this song, with just the harmonies of the Bee Gees, it's just so rich. And it's it's just you know, some of the chords that they hit is really amazing. Another guy hit that falsetto, but some other falsetto works, you know what I'm saying? So the Bee Gees, they were really putting it down. But in 2018, PJ Morton and Yebba released a live version of the song, and Yebba, you know, sometimes you know there's some notes that you can hit in the song, and she just kind of took what the Bee Gees did and she took it to a place that I wouldn't have imagined.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

And what can we just pause real quick and talk about Yebba real quick? Like about 10 seconds for those that ain't on Yebba, y'all need to get on there. Y E B B A. Her real name is Abby, and she flipped it around to Yebba. That chick right there, talented, talented.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Yeah, yeah. I mean, her voice, her voice is amazing, you know. And so when I heard that version, what I say when you gotta do a remake, you gotta do something that was different enough from the original to make me say, yeah, yeah, you got that. And PJ kind of sang it straight, but Yebba really took it to the next level and the emotional, very emotional. You could tell she was really into it. So I gotta give it to PJ Morton Yeba on that one.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Yeah, she put some stank on it, man. She put some stank on it for real, for real. Okay, that's good. I would have chosen that one too. That's it. My next selection, I'm getting into the a cappella side of my personality, is yesterday. So the original yesterday was written by Paul McCartney and released on the with the Beatles in 1965. It holds the record as one of the most covered songs in music history. So it's been done over and over and over again. But the one people that I can say that stepped up and did it a little bit better than the Beatles, I will have to give that to Boys to Men. And they did that. It was released in 1994 on their sophomore album 2. You know, the blue background with the Roman numeral two on it. You can listen to it from the front to the end, but right there at the end of the album is yesterday. And that four part harmony. Yes, four parts, if you're hearing me. Not three, four. Was absolutely fantastic. They definitely took took that song.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Yeah, I mean, uh I I I like the Boys and men version, and I like the Beatles version too. I mean, I think they did a good job, and yeah, I think they they can get the nod there if I was gonna rank them. They're not on my list, but I can I can see where you got there. All right, the next song I have up is Tomorrow. Okay, and so the Brothers Johnson back in 1976 did pretty much an instrumental version of Tomorrow, and so Quincy Jones was the producer on the track, and in 1993, Quincy Jones also produced the version you probably heard, which is Tevin Campbell's version. And that one, you know, Tevin Campbell just had a smooth, you know, tenor voice and came through on that. It's a classic, and you know, we we still hear that song come through today. So I gotta give it to Tevin Campbell on this one, but I think the Brothers Johnson's was really good. I I really enjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Oh, yeah, I love Brothers Johnson. It was like rediscovering them. I think that came in one of your bundles that you got on one of the things that you bit it on, and I really enjoyed listening to that record. Don't they already do strawberry letter as well? I do strawberry letter as well. And that one, that one's pretty dope. Yeah, that that one's pretty dope too. Brothers Johnson's, if you haven't looked them up before, they you probably have heard them and don't realize that you've heard them. Pretty dope, pretty dope. I like that. Awesome. Alright, so my next selection is Bohemian Rhapsody. Okay. So that one was originally done by Queen in 1975, and Freddie Mercury just did an amazing job on this song. It's also been covered several times, but one of my other people that I'm comparing them to is uh Pentatonic, and they've recreated it their their uh a cappella group, celebrated group in their own right, and so they did uh Bohemian Rhapsody, but I think that I still have to give it to the original. I mean, Freddie Mercury's voice on that was just absolutely amazing, and to hear their harmonization that was on there, it was definitely a step away from what they're normally known in doing, and it just was beautiful harmony.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Awesome. Yeah, I think that still had to give it to the Queen on that one. Yeah, if I was on my list, it's not on my list, but I would definitely go with Queen on that one. Yep. All right, my next song up here is gonna be Curtis Mayfield and The Makings of You. So I I had an album that come through one of those lots you talked about, and Gladys Knight had it recorded on the uh Claudine soundtrack, the movie Claudine in 1974. And you know, uh Gladys Knight is a great phenomenal singer, and I think the song was pretty good, but the way Curtis Mayfield really sang it, to me, it's it's one of my favorite songs just overall, not even just for this episode, but just like he just sang it in a way that it really makes you feel his sincerity, what it means, you know, what this what this you know love means, the makings of you. And if you never heard this song before by Curtis Mayfield, it's just like I don't know, it's a falsetto that he gives, and the orchestration in the background, it's definitely one of my favorite songs that he's he's done.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

But definitely would give that to Curtis Mayfield for sure. All right, all right. So my next selection is The Sound of Silence. Yes, I love that song, Simon and Garfunkel, one of my mom's peoples that she that she really liked, and Bridge of Troubled Borders, amazing, but the sound of silence, I'm gonna give it to the people that remade it, which is gonna be pentantonic again, showing off my a cappella nerdy side of me, just how the bass comes in, how just everything, and then Mitch's falsetta on top, just chef's kiss, just beautiful. If you haven't had a chance to listen to that, definitely listen to that.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Oh, yeah, yeah, those are those are definitely some good songs there. I like that. My next song would be Lady and My Life. Now, Lady in My Life, as you I'm sure most of everyone has heard it, even though it wasn't a track that Michael, I don't think Michael Jackson released his track, you know, off the album, but on the thriller album, it's kind of a deeper cut. If you can have a deep cut on thriller, because all the thriller was pretty much listened to. Yeah, it was. But Lady in My Life is just that really smooth, you know, quiet storm feel. And Michael really gave it, gave you those vocals. He really made you feel like you know, he was singing that to the woman that he loved. And so one of my favorite songs by Michael Jackson of all time. But I then I also heard a version by Mesa. And Mesa has a lot of uh, if you ever heard Incognito back in the day, you've heard Mesa. And Mesa, she brought just like more of like a rich, jazzy feel, like a smoky jazz club type feel to the song. And it just really gave uh more richness and depth to it. The the benefit of Michael is like Michael, you know it's Michael when he's singing it, and you know he means what he sings. Well, with with Mesa, it just adds another level of lushness, especially with the background. I like both of them. I don't really have to choose if I don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

I knew I knew that this one was gonna be on your list because we we have songs that when we're moving speakers and things around in the house, we have songs that we test to make sure that the speakers are in the right place and the levels and everything. And this is one of the songs that we use to test that, just the production on it is I I have no words. I am a huge Mesa fan, and we actually got an opportunity to meet her at Middle C and take a picture with her and everything, just and we've seen her what three times? Yes, we've seen her three times, and never, never a disappointment. That is one of those singers that you can tell that takes care of her voice and is no strain and just the powerhouse. Let me move on, let me move on. Didn't mean to take off your thing. I know this is getting a little long, so we're gonna get we're gonna get there. We got a few more left. So getting back with my list, I have Sweet Thing. Actually, it's called Sweet Thing, but you know, you got to put your thing. So originally done by Shaka Khan. This came out in 1975, and this has also been covered by a lot of people, including my girl Mary J. But I didn't want to put her on there because she's gonna appear again on this on this list. So, but honestly, my favorite version of this song was done by Bony James on his album in 1997, and it just absolutely amazing. Bony James he plays the saxophone, but he uses the saxophone as his voice, and within the first three notes, I can tell you that this is a Bony James Bony James is playing the saxophone on this. It just you know we'll we'll talk about Bony James later on, but definitely my pick for that. Alright, all right, I like that.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

My next song up is Love Strain in 1996. Drew Hill did a version of it, and I tell you, when Drew Hill did Love Strain, it really just it added a different level of musicality to it. It had a richer bassine, and it just, I don't know. It just to me, it was even it just in it just took it to another level. And then most recently, the younger folks know Silksonic had their way with the song. Silk Sonic put that song out, rendition their version of it back in 2022. But I gotta give it to Drew Hill on this one, baby. Drew Hill, baby. Yeah, Drew Hill and uh Cisco, and it's all these different color hair. I gotta give it to them.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

Don't come for don't come for Cisco, don't come for Cisco. I mean, we just saw them in a concert, they were celebrating their was it their 25th anniversary or their 20th anniversary. It was pretty up there, and they still sound amazing, just amazing, and we were lucky to have jazz come out on on the on the stage as well. So, you know, that that's a whole nother episode within itself. All right, so I'm getting down to my last two picks. My last two picks. The next pick that I have is After the Dance. After the dance. So I knew this one, surprisingly, was Marvin Gaye. I knew that. I did know that. And it came out in 1976, and it was just wonderful. But you know, we spoke about these people last week. Foreplay. Foreplay came out with their version of it, and it has Bob James in it, as well as others, El DeBarge singing the vocals, and he put his little falsetto funk on it, and just awesome. So, no question, I'm giving it to uh foreplay. No, no shade to Marvin Gay. Marvin Gay did his thing, but foreplay came in and they they took that song.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Okay, okay. I like that. I mean, uh, I do like the foreplay version of that song as well. All right, the next song that I'm gonna have is gonna be Angel, originally recorded in 1983 by Anita Baker. And you know, this song right here just kind of incorporates that bluesy, jazzy, you know, voice that Anita Baker has, and she's really fit for this song. So it was really amazing to me when Layla Hathaway gave us her rendition, her live rendition of this song. And you know, Layla likes to do the RB stuff, but her voice really lends itself to jazz. And in this album, you can really hear her, in this record, you can really hear her play between jazz and RB, but with a little bit more seasoning on the jazz. And I really love the way she allows this song to blossom right in front of our listening ears. So I gotta give it to Layla on this one.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

I would agree, but I love her voice, and you're right, she's just jazzy. The first time that I heard Layla, I think Dave was listening to an album from Joe Sample, and she was on there, and I was like, Who is this? Who is this? And it said Layla Hathaway, and I said, Hathaway, like Donnie Hathaway? Like, oh, he had kids, and it just led me down, as y'all know, just a whole diacrap, and find out that that is uh one of one of his daughters, and she has earned her own right to fame, absolutely just an amazing voice. If you haven't heard her or listened to her, take a listen. Take a listen for sure. Alright, what's my last one gonna be? I'm going down. Gotta, gotta, gotta do that. I told you she was gonna show back up on my thing. So most of you guys probably have heard the Mary J version of I'm Going Down, which was on her 1994 My Life. Woo! One of my favorite albums for her. But the original song was with Rose Royce, and it came from in 1976 for the soundtrack of Car Wash. And so while I love Roll Royce, they do an amazing job, they do a fantastic job. You know, I gotta give it to my girl Mary. I mean, couple, I think more so because it's coupled with the video, and you can see her walking down the steps, and that black and white and everything else, the whole vision thing, gotta give it to Mary. But that's that's the end of my list, sir. That's the end of my list.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

That's a great that's a great way to close it out. And for mine, I'm gonna go to a song that Luther, Luther came out with in 1982 with with forever, for always, for love. That's right. And Luther, generally when Luther has a song, can't nobody take it. Can't nobody take it from her. Can't nobody take it. And and uh Luther did a great job on this track. But I got to say, Leila Hathaway's back again with her live version, yes, that she used her jazz. I know she likes to do RB, but she used her jazz intonations with this song to kind of give a different it's just it's the song, but it's it she changes like the the harmony slightly and and just the way she addresses the notes and the syncopation that she has within the note that it just has something. I'm not gonna say she took it from Luther, I'm not gonna say she took it, but I mean it's it's pretty dagger close to her taking that song.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

And so you guys have to know because when Luther laid it down, don't nobody usually take that. And I would have to give her the edge just slightly, just like don't come from Luther, don't come from RIP, man, but definitely would give that to her for sure. So, hey, you had a pretty good list, sir.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

You did too. I enjoyed hearing all the songs and the remakes and some little history behind it, so it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Yeah, and and trust and believe this was 10 out of probably my mind was clear on this day and the songs that popped in my head. There are so many that are out there that we could probably do a whole hour podcast on here, and y'all probably don't want to hear us for an hour. What we are getting ready to do is go ahead and close this out uh for you guys and just thank you. Thank you. As of Saturday, we reached 100 downloads, which may not sound like a lot. We're just starting off, but we want to thank everybody for showing us the love and support as we start up this podcast, and we hope to get to 100 more and hope to get to 50 plus followers. So continue spreading the word about our little podcast here, and we'll we'll see you. So thank you. Record update. Oh, record update. I don't have a number other than the number from last week, but we have received probably about 10 or 15 more that I need to categorize. So we will do that at the top of the next episode, episode five. So please continue listening, and we will drop this as always Monday after 10 p.m. And thank you for listening. Today, continue to enjoy your beverage and keep listening till we can talk to you later.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

Have a good one.