An occasional feature in which we mark the songs of our relative youth as played over public muzak systems.
Date: November 8, 2022, 12:12 p.m.
Place: Trader Joe's in Uptown Albuquerque
Song: "Tell Me Something Good"
Artist: Rufus (with Chaka Khan)
Irony Matrix: 3.8 out of 10
Comment: This castoff from the Stevie Wonder songwriting factory reached No. 3 in summer 1974, and it truly takes me back to my actual youth, reveling to Top 40 radio in the suburbs of Chicago. I don't know if I knew that the funk band and Chaka Khan (nee Yvette Marie Stevens) were from Chicago. It's got those Wonder staples -- a rubbery bass line and a jittery clavinet riff -- and infectious backing vocals. It's a pure jolt of joy that still slaps or bangs (as the kids say) five decades later. What fun.
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