It's Mini Moose's week. Here are her seven picks for February.
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SONG OF THE monDAY
From Arrested Development's 1993 album, 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In the Life Of..., Tennessee hit No. 6 on Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy. Prince's Alphabet St. had been used in the song without permission, but Prince cut the group a break and only charged them $100,000 instead of demanding future royalties.
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SONG OF THE tuesDAY
Ann Peebles wrote I Can't Stand the Rain with her husband Don Bryant. It was released in 1973 and reached No. 6 on the R&B charts. John Lennon was quoted as saying, "it was best song ever." The band Eruption released a cover in 1978, Tina Turner recorded it for Private Dancer (1984), and in 1997, Missy Elliott used it in The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly).
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SONG OF THE wednesDAY
Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man was released in 1972 for the motion picture soundtrack for the movie Trouble Man. The album was the first to be written and produced by Gaye, and though it was his only film score, it has inspired artists like James Brown, Barry White, Willie Hutch, and Edwin Starr to produce soundtrack albums of their own.
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SONG OF THE thursDAY
Written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn for the 1930 movie Whoopee!, Nina Simone recorded My Baby Just Cares For Me for her album, Little Girl Blue (1958). After her version was used in a 1987 Chanel No. 5 commercial, it became one of her biggest hits and launched the almost-forgotten Simone back into the spotlight.
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SONG OF THE friDAY
O-o-h Child is a 1970 song by the family group The Five Stairsteps. It was featured on the band's album, Stairsteps. Originally the B-side to a cover of The Beatles' Dear Prudence, O-o-h Child became the band's last Top 40 R&B hit. Since its release, it's been covered more than twenty times. In our opinion, Nina Simone's is the best.
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SONG OF THE saturDAY
Queen Latifah wrote U.N.I.T.Y for her 1993 album, Black Reign. It was also featured on Latifah's TV show, Living Single. The song addresses the disrespect of women in society and won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. It remains Latifah's biggest-selling hit and her only Top 30 on Billboard Hot 100.
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SONG OF THE sunDAY
I Say a Little Prayer was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1967 for Dionne Warwick. It was intended to convey a woman’s concern for her man fighting in Vietnam. Aretha Franklin recorded the song for Aretha Now (1968). It became Franklin’s biggest hit in the UK until she recorded I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) with George Michael in 1987.
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