SONG OF THE DAY
“Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City” by Bobby “Blue” Bland (Dreamer, Dunhill Records, 1974). Written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh.
WHERE I HEARD IT
This is my final post about the soundtrack of ABC’s cancelled “Detroit 1-8-7”, Episode 118: “Blackout”, first aired: March 20, 2011.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City” is a 1974 R&B song first recorded by Bobby “Blue” Bland. While Bland scored a minor hit with the song, landing in the top ten of the R&B charts, it is perhaps best known through cover versions and samples.
– While it is ostensibly a love song, some critics have also heard it as a lament on urban poverty and hopelessness; the reggae singer Al Brown’s cover version even changes most of the lyrics to magnify this emphasis.
– The song is featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey.
-Covers have been recorded by Whitesnake, Jay-Z, Allman Brothers, Maggie Bell, Al Brown, Crystal Gayle, and Paul Weller, among many others.
O h yea — twice! He was twenty feet away.
That would by 1976.
Another interesting fact — In 1076 your momma and I went to see a GREAT concert: BBB and BB King at Kleinhans. Then, he came to Syracuse the year you were born and performed with…. Dizzy Gillespie!
YOU SAW DIZZY G?????