{"id":768,"date":"2011-07-22T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=768"},"modified":"2011-07-21T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:05:17","slug":"slow-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/07\/22\/slow-jams\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/03\/24\/a-conversation-with-james-leg\/\" target=\"blank\">James Leg<\/a> posted this video to Facebook as a &#8220;guilty pleasure&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_4DmOUtmGUAw\"><div id=\"lyte_4DmOUtmGUAw\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/4DmOUtmGUAw\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4DmOUtmGUAw\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/4DmOUtmGUAw\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked this song, too, and hearing the soulful groove of it again reminded me of the early &#8217;80s when I often listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/wzakcleveland.com\/\" target=\"blank\">93.1 WZAK<\/a>. They had a late-night, slow-jam show called &#8220;For Lovers Only&#8221;. This was the theme song:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ju5d-yBd0Lc\"><div id=\"lyte_ju5d-yBd0Lc\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ju5d-yBd0Lc\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ju5d-yBd0Lc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ju5d-yBd0Lc\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was a big admirer of Jeffrey Osborne at the time, and though I don&#8217;t specifically remember hearing this song on &#8220;For Lovers Only&#8221;, I&#8217;d be willing to bet it turned up in the playlist at least once.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_wCWYZHYIPyE\"><div id=\"lyte_wCWYZHYIPyE\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wCWYZHYIPyE\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wCWYZHYIPyE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wCWYZHYIPyE\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I do, however, very clearly remember hearing this racy number from Kwick on the program (remember, I was about 10 years old at the time):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_inpTwkTEMSc\"><div id=\"lyte_inpTwkTEMSc\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/inpTwkTEMSc\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/inpTwkTEMSc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/inpTwkTEMSc\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And you can&#8217;t do slow jams without including the late, great Teddy Pendergrass. (And it gives me an excuse to put his handsome face in the feature image.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_54-9Jvq1Li4\"><div id=\"lyte_54-9Jvq1Li4\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/54-9Jvq1Li4\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/54-9Jvq1Li4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/54-9Jvq1Li4\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus ends another edition of <i>Why April is the Way She Is<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, James Leg posted this video to Facebook as a &#8220;guilty pleasure&#8221;: &nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;ve always liked this song, too, and hearing the soulful groove of it again reminded me of the early &#8217;80s when I often listened to 93.1 WZAK. 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