OK, so it’s Friday afternoon in the great Pacific Northwest and I’m at work. If it weren’t for the fact I’m supposed to hear back from a couple of clients about new contracts, I’d split this joint in a heartbeat.

I. don’t wanna work. I wanna bang on the drum all day….

So, I’m cleaning up some of my drafts…here’s a radio mix from over a year ago. Who knows if it’s any good.

This week’s radio mix:

Santana – Hold On
Isaac Hayes – Don’t Let Go
REO Speedwagon – Keep The Fire Burning
Hall And Oates – Wait For Me (reminds me of my first radio gig)
Lyn Collins – Think About It
Raydio – Can’t Change That (this one too)
Tony Basil – Mickey
Crazy Elephant – Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
Alan Parsons Project – Dammed If I Do
The Beatles – Nowhere Man (for my boy, Austin)

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Quick and dirty, a half-hour of short (really short) and sweet little ditties.

Santana – Hold On
Isaac Hayes – Don’t Let Go
REO Speedwagon – Keep The Fire Burning
Hall And Oates – Wait For Me
Lyn Collins – Think About It
Raydio – You Can’t Change That
Toni Basil – Mickey
Crazy Elephant – Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
Alan Parsons Project – Damned If I Do
The Beatles – Nowhere Man

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There’s a lot being written around the music blogosphere about Isaac Hayes and rightly so.

Like a lot of white middle-American teenagers growing up in the 1970’s, my first encounter with his music was the Theme from Shaft. Fortunately, I heard more of his music beyond Shaft thanks to Street Stryder, the all-night DJ I’ve mentioned in past posts, who brought R&B records from NYC and played them on little old WENY radio.

In 1980, I was among the soon-to-be graduated disco kids who would sneak into the local club, Inside New York, and act like a bad John Travolta imitation. Don’t Let Go was one of my favorites (and still is).

Around that same time, I went on a field trip to NYC with the high school choir. I clearly remember dancing around a tacky hotel room with my friends Angela and Theresa, listening to Don’t Let Go (and a disco-mix of What A Fool Believes!) on the radio.

Today, I’m suffering a little from the “but-I-just-saw-him” syndrome. That is, I just saw him perform at the Waterfront Blue Festival last month. I wasn’t more than 10 feet from him as I shot a number of photos, including this one.

May he rest in peace.

Isaac Hayes
1942-2008

Isaac Hayes – Don’t Let Go