Jubilee, Jubilee!

This is nothing less than...
the 200th post on this blog!

With some bad and a lot of good times, this blog has made it into its 26th month and reached its 200th post. I had many glorious ideas, all discarded eventually, what I would write tonight. In the end, I settled for an unashamed display of self-complacency. Thus I went through the pages of this blog and concocted sort of a chart list of the best stuff I put online. Needless to say that these mini-charts are exclusively based on my own peculiar likings, but that's what blogs are all about. This is what I came up with, three in each category ... and phew, choices were hard:

B E S T   V O C A L   P E R F O R M A N C E S

 *** Della Reese (with the Meditation Singers)

»Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air« (1958)

 ***Rheta Hughes

»The Music That Makes Me Dance« (1965)

***Mildred Lane (with the Patterson Singers)

»He Won't Fail You« (1968)

S O N G S   I   S I M P L Y   L I K E   M O S T

***Esther Phillips

»Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone« (1972)

***Fontella Bass

»I Want Everyone To Know« (1972)

***Etta James

»Let's Burn Down The Cornfield« (1974)

 G R O O V I E S T   S O N G S

***Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure

»Baby What You Want Me To Do« (1965)

***Shirley Ellis

»Sugar Let's Shing-a-ling« (1967)

***Mavis Staples

»Good To Me« (1969)

F A V O R I T E   S A C R E D   T U N E S

***Holmes Sisters

»Gonna Ride This Train« (1963)

***The Meditation Singers

»The Lord Is« (1967)

***Gladys McFadden & The Loving Sisters' Sons

»I Can't Feel At Home« (1974)

Thanks to all those who contributed to this blog by writing comments or getting in contact with me!

I wish you all the best. Keep tuned in to this blog.

... to conclude, the following song comes just for the fun of it, and what fun it is! The incomparable Sugar Pie DeSanto, usually appearing barefeet on stage and famously leaving her high heel sneakers in the locker ('cause they hurt her toesies so bad). This tune was first presented in Billboard on a 21st of March which is a nice coincidence ... from 1964 and just as fresh and peachy as when it was recorded.

Sugar Pie DeSanto: »Slip-In Mules (No High Heel Sneakers)« on Checker # 1073A (1964):

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