3/1/09 Playlist: It's All Right

Opening theme: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - So What's New

Segment 1: All Right
I declared that this show today was going to be "all right", starting out with a set of some "all right" songs. I also tried to have some songs with a positive outlook.

Impressions – It's Alright
JJ Jackson – But It's Alright
Byrds – Jesus Is Just Alright
Temptations – The Girl's Alright With Me
Elvis Presley – That's All Right Mama

On the Byrds song, the Doobie Brothers came along with their version of this a few years later and changed up the arrangement; now it seems to be the definitive one when other artists cover it...but the Byrds did have the original.

Hi to all of my online network friends listening today from MySpace, Facebook, Gaither and a couple of other communities. I love you all and thanks for tuning in. (I did check the stream listener numbers and noted I had double this morning of what I usually have. I'm not saying what those numbers are, though. ;)

Segment 2: Record Box

Bobby Darin – Artificial Flowers
Grass Roots – Let's Live For Today
Neil Sedaka – Next Door To An Angel
Rick Nelson – Young World
Everly Brothers - Gone Gone Gone (the original version of the song Alison Krauss and Robert Plant had so many awards thrown their way for on their "Raising Sand" abum)
Uniques - Not Too Long Ago

By the way, a new techno development for you: if you have an iPod touch or iPhone, you can now pick up and listen the to station through the Public Radio Tuner. Go to the link on radiofreenashville.org to download the software you need to listen to us and other public radio stations from around the country.

Friendly reminder to those viewing this version of the blog: You can also find a page for Never Too Old on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/nevertoooldwv -- go out and listen to some songs out there. There is also a Never Too Old group on Facebook you can join. There is a bulletin board where I have a couple of topics out there and I let you know what's coming up on the show. So if you are on MySpace or Facebook, you can keep on top of what's happening.

Segment 3: Soul Stew

Sam Cooke – Good Times
Marv Johnson – I Love The Way You Love
O' Jays – Lipstick Traces
Brenton Wood – Oogum Boogum Song
Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You
Major Lance - Monkey Time
(The last two were very last minute adds. The set was running short with all these two-minute songs.)

Segment 4 – Non-oldie/new/current
I played something from the new CD by Mark Lowry called Life Gets Loud. Mark is known primarily in gospel circles for his humor, but he's the other singer at the top of my list as a male vocalist's singer's singer in my opinion. He is a masterful communicator and few can phrase a lyric to convey emotion quite like he does. This is a great example.

Mark Lowry – When the Sun Comes Out Again
(By the way, when I arrived at the station this morning, it was cloudy and it had snowed. Just a dusting in Nashville, but considered a "snowstorm" to some here. By the time I had played this song, though, the sun had come out again.)

Gaither Vocal Band – I'm Not Gonna Worry
Mark, as many know, just rejoined the Gaither Vocal Band (this after a seven year absence; his previous tenure as a baritone was 13 years), as did previous lead and tenor Michael English and David Phelps. What goes around comes around.

Encouragement:
Few things in life bog us down as much as worry. I know I used to have a big problem with it. Concern is one thing...but worry creates so much stress, physical and emotional problems. I guess some people use worry as sort of preparing for the fear of what might happen. But look at this way—why choose to experience ahead of time what may never actually happen? Think about how many times that worry has backfired on you…the outcome you feared that didn't take place. And when something did happen...you walked through it and survived on the other end. So try to focus on today, and not worry about tomorrow. It's all right to.

Closer: King Curtis – Soul Serenade

The show was all right, pretty much. Just one noticeable glitch and a couple of brief senior moments.