Mellow Mellow FM: Rainy Days & Radio Waves

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Enjoy this rainy Mixcloud Exclusive! 😊 Next time I will reboot my series Groovy, Sexy & Soulful.

The track by Ben Moore is a yacht soul cover of the Seals & Crofts original. In 1969, ten years before Get Closer, Ben Moore joined the duo James & Bobby Purify, after Bobby Purify (real name Robert Lee Dickey) retired for health reasons. In the 1970s Ben Moore recorded a couple of solo albums. One of them was Slow Dancin', on which Get Closer appeared. In 1998, he became blind from severe glaucoma and left the music industry temporarily. In 2006 he joined the gospel band The Blind Boys Of Alabama.

From the end of the 1960s, Delores Hall performed in several musical revues in Los Angeles and on Broadway. In 1973 her debut LP was released by RCA Records titled Hall-Mark, produced by Billy Jackson. Her first movie part was in Scrooged in the 1980s. She also played a security guard named Delores in Lethal Weapon 3. On television she was a regular on the first two seasons of Diagnosis: Murder. 

The track by Mud is on the brand new 4CD box set Mud: The Albums 1975-1979, out on Cherry Red Records.

Tracklist:

Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together (1976)
Orleans – Dance With Me (1975)
The Beginning Of The End – Funky Nassau (1971)
Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain (1972)
Martha & The Vandellas ‎– Come And Get These Memories (1963)
Ben Moore – Get Closer (1979)
Steve Harley – I Wish It Would Rain (1978)
England Dan & John Ford Coley – I’ll Stay (1976)
Bread – Sweet Surrender (1972)
Yvonne Elliman – Hello Stranger (1977)
Milly Scott – Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind (1971)
Crystal Gayle ‎– Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (1977)
Stephen Bishop (Feat. Chaka Khan) – Save It For A Rainy Day (1976)
Mud – All I've Got To Give (1976)
Del Amitri – You Can’t Go Back (2021)
Canyon – Country Lovin’ (1970s)
Bill Puka – Sunshine Days (1970)
Cooley & Munson – Slightly Sue (1972)
Roberta Flack – Early Ev’ry Midnite (1975)
Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love (1977)
Martee Lebous – Chance To Dance (1976)
The Dells – Our Love (1977)
Delores Hall – Never Needed You Anyway (1979)