HOWDY NEIGHBOR. WHO'S SKY SAXON?

My neighbor Tony just moved out and I'm a little bummed. Tony moved here from England, shit, about seven or eight years (maybe ten?) having bought a bar a few blocks away. Him and his business partner turned it into some sort of Irish bar that had bands, none of which played Irish music or had any noticeable signs of being Irish, except maybe on their Mom's side of the family, but the place was painted all green, called The Harp, played all the soccer games and had a bunch of beer company mirrors.

But that wasn't the Tony I knew (and will hopefully still know for years to come). Tony was the one guy who lived in my apartment complex that knew the music I did. He was about my age and despite growing up in the UK had tastes remarkably like mine. Punk rock, reggae, rockabilly, all sorts of shit. One conversation that stuck with me for some reason was one that we had when John Holt died about three years ago. Tony mentioned Holt's LP 1,000 Volts of Holt as a favorite and I concurred. When it's been a while since you last connected over a particular artist with someone outside of your little like minded musical clique, shit like that stands out. Just as one of my last conversations with Tony did. When I was lamenting the fact that there wouldn't be anyone around the complex to talk music with, he assured me there would. Yeah, I said, that might be the case, but only to a certain degree. He said that I would know their depth by asking one question, if they knew who Sky Saxon was. And that right there is what I'll miss.

Sky Saxon, litmus test.

Here's some assorted John Holt cuts. Finding stuff on the Seeds (Sky Saxon's band) is nearly impossible outside of streaming media. At least hard enough that I'm throwing in the towel for the night.

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Listen:
John Holt - Ali Baba at ATumblr (?)
John Holt - Strange Things mp3 at Secretargot (?)
Holt with the Paragons
The Paragons - Silver Bird mp3 at Pixie Radio
The Paragons - Man Next Door mp3 at Bass Shaka Backing Horace Andy
The Paragons - Wear You to the Ball mp3 at Kazo's Marley Discography
Sky Saxon:
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard (streaming) at YouTube
The Seeds - Out of the Question (streaming) at YouTube

ONE DEEP RABBIT HOLE

I'm posting this again because I was in the mood to see it again. I wanted to return to that weird hypnotic vibe. It did not disappoint. This video is unreal in it's primitive organic weirdness. Here's text from the old post (definitely watch the video).:

The chance viewing of the video below put me in a hypnotic state, like some sort of voodoo. It changed my mood entirely. Then I realized that it's only part two of a nine part collection of this heretofore mysto-combo, Othar Turner's Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. There goes a good hunk of time. Further digging reveals that from a collection of 148 clips from the Alan Lomax Archive on YouTube, and that's just in the 1978: Mississippi Delta & Hill Country collection. There's several other collections too. So, I'm probably not coming back any time soon. But this one, whoa Jesus, after the first minute it started feeling like some sort of David Lynch thing. And it kept that feeling for the duration. 

The Alan Lomax Collection has is all. The vintage regional badass, the down in the bottom, and the weird. Just do a few random clicks and see if you come back.

Video:
Rising Star Fife & Drum Band at Othar Turner's farm (1978) Part 1, part 2 (above), part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9
Alan Lomax Collection at YouTube

ANY BEER LEFT?

I'd never heard of the Vice Barons before last night. After posting that song, the only one I had heard, I was lickin' my chops for more. Some sort of backstory would be nice too. Turns out they're from Belgium and they've been around quite a while. So, late for the party, per usual.
 

A cursory search turned up a few things, an EP and a couple more YouTube things. Check out their Bandcamp page for a shitload more. I love their song titles. "She Wolf of the Sonic Souls." Oh yeah, they do a garage/surf cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model" that sounds like Telstar's hot German cousin. Dig on.

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Listen:
The Vice Barons - Vice Barons Meet the King of Fuzz at All I Want Four mp3s in a zip.
The Vice Barons - Swamp Fever (streaming) at YouTube
The Vice Barons - Thunderpussy (streaming) at YouTube
The Vice Barons - The Model at their Bandcamp page
Visit:
The Vice Barons at Bandcamp

WGASA NIGHT SPECIAL

If you weren't around for the umpteenth wave of something that could still be called punk back in the late eighties through the end of the nineties, you're probably okay with Green Day or the Offspring, or some grunge bands filling that chronological hole in your record collection. You might not have known of hundreds of bands touring and putting out a plethora of product under the radar of the masses. It's crazy really. There's this religious fanaticism of the late seventies era punk fiends, that it was somehow the most legitimate era of anything punk related. As if anything that came later was disingenuous. Phooey. If you really look at things objectively, with the exception of a handful of bands, the majority of seventies punk bands, while well intended, often vital, good and all of that, were playing follow the leader. Ramones plus attitude equals Sex Pistols plus social issues equals the Clash plus one more trip back over the Atlantic equals a handful of spiky haired bands in every major city with a "scene". That, of course, led to Green Day, the Offspring and bands like them which really were kind of disingenuous. Maybe not at first, but a funny thing happened on the way to a major label. Call it the "eyes on the prize" route.  Yeah, we'll do this, we'll make this concession, wait, MTV? Sure, I want to buy a house.

Punk rock, or any variant of it, was never meant to be pretty, or easy, or a money maker. There was an international network of bands in the eighties through the nineties that still exists in some capacity today, that not only carried the torch but spit gasoline into it. The sleep on the floor van tours, playing shitholes and getting wasted, going crazy on stage and doing ridiculously stupid things offstage. There were a shitload of independent record labels, 45s coming out the ass of anyone with a four track recorder and the few hundred bucks to press a short run of vinyl. These guys, while mutating musically may have played more chords, or in many cases less, than the allotted three chords typically thought of as the formula for louder, faster, shorter blend of punk rock, they may have turned up louder, played without a bass player, or with two bass players, added a Farfisa or whatever, but these were the guys who, in most cases, really didn't seem to give a shit if they were signed or not.

All of this shit came seeping back after reading Eric Davidson's We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001. Davidson was in the New Bomb Turks, and was in the thick of it. The book is great, not just because of his accounts, but those of other bands, independent label people (many who had day jobs to pay the bills) and fanzine folks (ditto). A great reminder that "willful obscurity" can sometimes be a good thing. Sometimes it's the only pure thing.

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Listen:
The Briefs - Rotten Love mp3 at Killed By Death Go there to get it
The Didjits - Headless mp3 at Killed By Death Go there to get it
New Bomb Turks - The Roof mp3 at Crasseux (?)
The Morlocks. Sex Panther (streaming) at YouTube
The Vice Barons - Fuzzy n' Wild (streaming) at YouTube This one's the shit.

WHAT THE HELL IS A FAMILY STONE ANYWAY?

"I Want to Take You Higher" led to a Sly Stone detour that has no interest in sitting at a keyboard. So, real quick like:  These songs have all sorts of weird things going on in them once you start picking them apart. Fuzz bass. Funky beats. Organ, Horns. Guitar. A lot. In fact, you could make a night of it. I am.

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Listen:
Sly and the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher mp3 at Internet Archive
Sly and the Family Stone - Loose Booty mp3 at The Adios Lounge
Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair mp3 at Portals

THE "FUCK YOU, I SLAY" LOOK

My brother scored some 45s today, the best of which were Ricky Nelson, Duane Eddy and Al Casey. I don't remember my brother and I having ever discussed Al Casey so I was jazzed that he knew of him. Here's reason #211 Casey is the shit: he played guitar on "The Fool" by Sanford Clark. It's a wickedly understated riff. Link Wray Lite. After the record hit, while backing Clark, he did a week long tour with Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Burnette, and Sonny James. Stop. Completely badass. Need details.

Casey did it all. He started playing steel when he was eight and was playing clubs at fourteen. He backed Jody Reynolds on "Fire of Love" and was in Duane Eddy's band, a member of the Wrecking Crew (ergo on everything), and he had his own records. Dude absolutely ruled.

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Listen:
Sanford Clark (Al Casey, guitar) - The Fool (streaming) at YouTube
Al Casey - Teenage Blues mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Jody Reynolds (Al Casey: guitar) - Daisy Mae mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Jody Reynolds (Al Casey: Guitar) - The Fire of Love mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Al Casey - Baja mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Al Casey - Caravan (streaming) at YouTube
Al Casey & the K.C.-ettes - Surfin' Hootnanny at Rocky-52.net On this one he apes Dick Dale, the Ventures and Duane Eddy

MESSAGE TO SHREDDERS

The more I think about that shredder yesterday, the more he bugs me. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, just chalk it up to a different set of values. But the more I think about it, the harder it is to ignore the fact that this shredding nonsense is part of the problem. 

There are different levels of rock 'n' roll finesse, and it has been my experience that it is always better to err on the sloppier, more primitive side. Rip it motherfucking up. To that end, here's a couple unrelated songs, both lacking spitshine to varying degrees. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's "Sweet and Sour" and the Oblivians' "What Rock 'n' Roll Is All About" will shake the shred right outta you.

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Listen:
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Sweet 'n' Sour mp3 at ATumblr (?)
The Oblivians "What Rock 'n' Roll is All About mp3 at NJ Speed Crazy

DUDE EVEN THROWS PICKS WITH ATTITUDE

I've got no clue how I ended up running across the "Double Guitar Shred Medley". I can't imagine what part of my tastes would prompt an algorithm to put it in a suggested video pile. I clicked on it out of curiosity. What I encountered was a whole other world that I'd forgotten existed. That of the at-all-costs guitar shredder. The video is by Michael Angelo Batio and it sucks. That doesn't mean that Batio isn't a good guitarist. Technically he is excellent. Mindblowing even. But his attention, his chosen micro-field of expertise, while requiring hours and hours of practice and a rare technical gift in addition to hard work, yields nothing close to rock and roll. It's all about the guitarist, and only the guitarist, which is the point. Okay, I get that. But why? When you possess that skill and are theoretically able to handle any style of music, why would you devote that much time to this kind of thing? The same reason why guys put huge wheels on lifted trucks. Why Trump has a "bigger button".

Check the comments under the video at YouTube. It's apparent this dude has worshippers, but there's some pretty funny comments too. After watching the video I had to get the hell away from Shredville. That shit is foreign, way too un-rock 'n' roll. I had to get me some anti-venom in the way of the Dirtbombs. That I can relate to.

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Listen:
The Dirtbombs - Ever Lovin' Man mp3 at Switchblade Comb
The Dirtbombs - Chains of Love mp3 at Indie Rock Cafe

WHEN YOU FINALLY GET TO CHECK ONE OFF

I couldn't name you ten Charlie Musselewhite songs. I haven't really listened to much of his stuff. But when I recently found that LP up there an a local antique store, I super snagged it. Eight bucks, worth twice that for one of the few Musslewhite songs I had heard, "Cha Cha the Blues". The song rules. A three minute instrumental that starts with a harp solo by Musslewhite, then a tight organ solo by Barry Goldberg, followed by a just plain awesome compact guitar solo by Harvey Mandel, and then ends with Musslewhite again. If you haven't heard it, hear it. The song is so good I'm not going to apologize for re-posting it.

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Listen:
Charlie Musslewhite - Cha Cha the Blues mp3 at Groove Addict With Harvey Mandel and Barry Goldberg. Instrumental
Charlie Musslewhite - My Baby mp3 at Groove Addict Go there to get it.

BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE SLADE.

I've been listening to Slade for decades and I still don't know whether I really like them or not. Are they too stupid to like, or too stupid to not like? They sure were a visual spectacle. I mean, fucking Noddy Holder, what was he thinking with those stupid hats? And poor ol' Dave Hill, the lone space glam dude.

I do remember listening to them a bunch back in the day. What I can't figure out in hindsight is why. I don't remember ever going all in, but I've never disliked them. I think, more than anything, I liked the fact that they existed. The stupid look, the grating vocals of Holder, the goofy lyrics, intentional misspelling, the Slade fist; the whole package.

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Listen:

Slade - Cum On Feel the Noize mp3 at Internet Archive
Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now mp3 at Internet Archive

SCREW BEADS. WHERE'S THE BEER?

Well, here we are, Fat Tuesday. My bet is that half of New Orleans is drunk by now. Where I am on the West coast of the U.S. there's only a few hours before this whole Mardi Gras thing is over and, for the believers, laying low and staying clean takes over. But let's not forget good ol' Hawaii who still have a few hours to celebrate, at least the half dozen Hawaiians that even give a shit about Mardi Gras.

So here we go, a random assortment of New Orleans shake. Some of these are better known than others, but all have that certain N'Orleans beat. You might already be too in the bag to deal with them. Not my problem.

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Listen:

Warren Lee - Star Revue mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Shirley & Lee - Feel So Good mp3 at Rocky 52
Dave Bartholomew - Carnival Time mp3 at Home of the Groove
Professor Longhair - In the Night mp3 at DJ Perro
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin' mp3 at DJ Perro
The Meters - Funky Miracle mp3 at Drummer World
Roger and the Gypsies - Pass the Hatchet (Pts 1 and 2) mp3 at A Terrible Blogger Is Born
Champion Jack Dupree - Drunk Again mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Huey "Piano" Smith - Popeye mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Jessie Hill - Whip It On Me mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Al Tousan (Allen Toussaint) - Pelican Parade mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Frankie Ford - Roberta mp3 at Rocky 52
Eddie Lang - Something Within Me mp3 at Soul Garage
Eddie Bo - Roamin-itis mp3 at Groove Addict
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can, Pt 2 mp3 at Videogotz
Huey "Piano" Smith - Would You Believe It mp3 at Modern Kicks
Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That mp3 at Corey Barksdale
Wax Wonders: The Soul Of NOLA at Aquarium Drunkard Five New Orleans sides, Irma Thomas, Bobby Parker, Little Bob and two by Willie Tee. Worth the click.

GUARDIANS OF THE GROOVE

What better to listen to, leading into Fat Tuesday, than WWOZ broadcasting from the thick of it. Maybe not the thick of it, but in the general vicinity. If you were going to listen to a particular station on a particular day, Fat Tuesday would belong to WWOZ. Note: When you get there the streaming thing is at the top "Listen Now". Dig it!

WWOZ New Orleans Listen over there.

THE LIFER

I hadn't thought about ol' Charlie Harper for years. I knew that the UK Subs were one of those bands that kept slogging through year after year with Harper still holding down the vocals. That seemed honorable. Not sitting still long enough for any tour to be called a reunion tour, I can get behind that. Harper is a diehard, and he gets my respect if for nothing else than not giving up.

I ran into a cover of the Junior Murvin's "Police and Thieves" that Harper did from a 2002 Clash tribute album (the Clash covered it back in 1977). I hate tribute albums, but this cover is actually pretty good, a little like the Clash's version if they had let it gestate for 25 years before going into the studio. There's some dub touches, and despite the crunchy guitars it sounds slightly more reggae derived, like the Clash should have done it.

Harper 1966

The UK Subs were a second generation UK punk band, gaining steam after all of the earlier bands (Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Damned) were already up and running. So it is that I never really knew much about them. Turns out that Harper is older than the lot of them, so old that Rod Stewart taught him how to play harmonica. Dude is 73, oh, and the UK Subs are touring this year. That makes his diehard status even more impressive.

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Listen:

Charlie Harper -Police and Thieves mp3 at Internet Archive
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves mp3 at Snuthing Anything
The Clash - Police and Thieves (streaming) at YouTube
UK Subs - Tomorrow's Girls mp3 at The ModPopPunk Archives
Visit:
Cult heroes: UK Subs' Charlie Harper is less a punk than a heroic old soldier at The Guardian

K.DOE SAVES THE DAY

I saw a commercial earlier for a TV version of Jesus Christ Superstar to be aired on Easter. Two participant names I caught were Alice Cooper and John Legend. What in the fuck. Is this even a world I want to live in? I flushed the toilet, washed my hands and went straight to the computer. Ernie K. Doe will fix things.

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Listen:

Ernie K. Doe - Hurry Up and Know It mp3 at J Yuenger
Ernie K. Doe - Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta mp3 at J Yuenger
Ernie K. Doe - Heebie Jeebies mp3 at J Yuenger
Ernie K. Doe - A few more songs and his radio show here

HOLY SHIT! IT'S THIS TUESDAY!

Man, I had it all messed up. I did a search for the date of Mardi Gras this year, the only problem was "this" year was 2017. Brain fart. I've been thinking I had a couple weeks to post New Orleans stuff, so I was just cruising. When I saw something today saying that Fat Tuesday is this Tuesday, it became crunch time.

I revisited Coco Robicheaux's "St. John's Eve", a song I was turned onto by Peter Tibbles, a man of records and taste. Peter does a weekly music column, Elder Music, for Time Goes By, a blog for, no slag intended, older people. But he doesn't write from any particular age related vantage point, and he's into all sorts of shit. I've learned about dozens of musicians through his posts, some in genres that I previously didn't give a shit about. I don't know care what genre Coco Robicheaux's "St. John's Eve" falls into. I do know that you can feel it. I don't know anything about Robicheaux, I almost don't want to. "St. John's Eve" is a fucking growling voodoo dog mired in swamp muck and stinky candles. It's badass, and it is only one of many that Tibbles's posts have turned me onto. Here's four of his New Orleans posts, and the song I was just slobbering all over.

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Listen:
Coco Robicheaux - St. John's Eve mp3 at Time Goes By
The Posts:
New Orleans Music at Time Goes By
Part 1:
King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Roy Brown, Lee Dorsey, Joe Jones, Bobby Charles, Dave Bartholomew, Jessie Hill, Coco Bobicheaux
Part 2:
Louis Armstrong, Professor Longhair, Lloyd Price, Eddie Bo, the Neville Brothers, Benny Spellman, the Dixie Cups, Smiley Lewis
Part 3:
Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, Alvin Robinson, Fats Domino, Johnny Adams, Ernie K-Doe, Lonnie Johnson, Chris Kenner, The Meters, Dr, John
Part 4:
Jelly Roll Morton, Champion Jack Dupree, James Booker, Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Larry Williams, Shirley and Lee. Wynton Marsalis

PER THE ICHIBAN

Sheeiitt yeah. Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban is putting up random rockers, one a week under the heading Dance Floor Essentials. I love it when they do those types of single song serial posts. They work, not just musically, but as a reason to go there at least once a week. They just happen to have killer taste.

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Listen:
Little Luther - Eenie Meenie Minie Moe mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Go there to get it
Piano Red - Wildfire mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Ditto
The Sanshers - Gonna Git That Man mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Ditto
Stacy's 5th - My Lovin' Baby mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Ditto

IT'S THREE WEEKS 'TIL FAT TUESDAY SOMEWHERE.

Aaron Neville, ready to party.

It's hard to imagine a region or city more proud of their musical heritage than New Orleans. If you've ever been there you may have picked up on that. Though I haven't been there in years, when I was there the rhythm and undeniable funkiness of the music seemed to seep from every crack of a window, door or moss covered courtyard wall. It was everywhere, like a soundtrack. Once you experience that, you're hooked. It might be acquired taste if you've never been there, but it kind of depends on the breadth of your taste. I was already into the music when I went there, but I will say that after a few days it was like someone added catalyst to the mix, it all made sense. I think I say that same shit every year about this time. But then again, I remember a moment down there, being totally content and thinking that once my gig is up, I want to die there. I had it bad.

Segue? Okay, here's a couple early solo cuts by two Nevilles (Art and Aaron), and one by Allen Toussaint. All three figure big in the New Orleans canon (Google that shit if you don't recognize those names). The bonus here is a hour long mix over at Funky Sixteen Corners with all sorts of New Orleans icons: Roger and the Gypsies, Professor Longhair, Bobby Marchan, Eddie Bo, Lee Dorsey, Dixie Cups, Earl King, the Meters, Ernie K Doe, you get the picture. And a bunch of more obscure artists too. Larry, the host of Funky Sixteen Corners, knows his shit, so the mix is chocked full of deeper cuts.

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Listen:
Aaron Neville - Humdinger mp3 at DJ Perro
Art Neville - Arabian Love Call mp3 at Office Naps
Al Tousan (Allen Toussaint) - Cow Cow Blues mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
The mix:
Funky 16 Corners presents Mardi Gras Boogaloo 22 song mix at Funky 16 Corners. Go there to get it, download link is posted after the song listing.

WAH-WAH, ECHO AND THE BEAT.

Dennis Edwards passed away a few days ago. He was the lead singer of the Temptations from 1968 onward (if the Temptations can be said to have had a lead singer). Edwards joined the group right about when Norman Whitfield started producing them moving them into psychedelic soul territory. It was a marked difference from their earlier years. As brilliant as Whitfield's productions were, the singers complained that their voices were getting lost in the mix, which was true to a degree. It wasn't "My Girl" and "Ain't to Proud to Beg" days anymore. But they weren't necessarily being drowned out, they just weren't as prominent. The instrumentation was big and drawn out, more so than their earlier work, and to Whitfield's credit, it made for a much bigger package. To wit, the LP version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" was a whopping twelve minutes long, with an intro that lasted over three minutes before the vocals came in. By the time Edwards laid down the opening lines, he had done over ten takes and was pissed.

Dennis Edwards

"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is an interesting case study for how Whitfield worked. On more than one occasion, he would produce a song for one group and if it didn't hit the charts, he'd record the song in an entirely different version with another group. He produced the Temptations' version of "War" and when that didn't stick, he did it again with Edwin Starr and that version was a huge hit. Another Temptations song that failed to hit big was "Smiling Faces Sometimes", which Whitfield fine tuned into a hit for the Undisputed Truth. Lest you think that the Temptations got the short end of every stick, the original version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" was recorded by, you guessed it, the Undisputed Truth, which went nowhere. Whitfield brought it to the Temps and you know what happened there.

Here's a mixed bag. First up is a pre-Temptations 45 by Edwards, followed by a few of the Whitfield produced Temptations songs with Edwards sharing lead vocals, including three different versions of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone", the "short" version (seven minutes), the LP version, the 45 B-side instrumental version (take that Jamaica!). Finally, the original version by the Undisputed Truth.

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Listen:
Dennis Edwards - I Didn't Have Too But I Did (streaming) at YouTube
The Temptations - Can't Get Next to You mp3 at Box.net (?)
The Temptations - Cloud Nine mp3 at Box.net (?)
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion mp3 at Snuthing Anything
The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack mp3 at AM Then FM With spoken intro
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7 minute version) mp3 at Data Vibe (?)
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (12 minute version) (streaming) YouTube
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (instrumental version) (streaming) at YouTube
The Undisputed Truth - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (original) (streaming) at YouTube

FUCK YEAH, CLAVINET SLAYS PRESIDENT!

Every singer has their hot shit era. Some have it at the beginning of the career, others have it later. Few have it pretty much throughout their career, fewer still throughout a long career, and even less with their own distinct sounds in multiple eras. Stevie Wonder is that cat, and his early seventies clavinet soaked shit is godhead.

When I heard Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin'" tonight, after the clavinet-orphins subsided, I thought about how the song was somewhat appropriate what with the [Insert your favorite, most disparaging, most lethal barb here. Make sure there's a cuss word or two.] in the White House. Then I saw that it was written about Nixon, and that Nixon resigned two days after it's release. C'mon Stevie, work your magic bro!

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Listen:
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' mp3 at Snuthing Anything