IN THE GROOVE  (April 25, 2023)

Okay, we’re gonna turn the heat up just a bit here and really get In The Groove.

When this song first came out in September of 1972, I was a newlywed of exactly three months with nothing but loving on my mind. I thought this was possibly the sexiest, most titillating and steamy song I’d ever heard.

It’s the story of an affair between a married man and his equally married lover. In the song, the two meet in secret “every day at the same café” at 6:30 where they hold hands and talk. The two are in a quandary: “We’ve got a thing going on. We both know that it’s wrong but it’s much too strong to let it go now.”

Please excuse me, Pete, but I’m stealing a page from your playbook and doing a cover version of this song by my favorite duo of all time – Hall and Oates, the most successful pair in music history (yes, even more successful than Simon & Garfunkel).

Why a cover and not the original when the original is an excellent recording? Two words: Daryl Hall. Fifty-plus years after seeing him on MTV, I still “have a thing going on” for Daryl Hall so please allow me this one indulgence.

Turn down the lights, pour the wine and light the candles; here now are Hall and Oates doing a live performance of “Me and Mrs. Jones”.

Oh, my goodness! What can I say? I got a thing for “blue-eyed soul”.

Back to the business at hand. It’s time for the question of the day. Once again, you either know this or you don’t.

Who was the performer who originally sang “Me and Mrs. Jones” in 1972?

I’ll have the answer for you next week.

To refresh your memory, here’s the question of the day from last week:

In my little blurb before the video, I tossed out the name of another great song written by George Harrison. Did you notice it?

The song is “Cheer Down” and the title came from a little thing George’s wife Olivia used to say to him. Whenever he was starting to get all caught up in something and needing reining in, she’d say “Cheer down, big guy”. I like that; nicer than “Cool your jets!”.

I hope you enjoyed today’s sultry number here In The Groove. Join me next week when things will be very different.

See you on the flip side.

I’m The Sicilian Storyteller

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