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Another disco classic for the man I miss

Apr25

Love Sensation
Loleatta Holloway and Dan Hartman

Refrain:
Love sensation
Love sensation
Love sensation
You got me burning up with your love sensation

oh, Love sensation
Oh it’s got me in its spell
It’s such a good vibration
A feeling that I know so well

And when you hold me close,
it’s so so nice
that you’ve got me burning up with your love sensation

Refrain with ad-libs

Sweet sensation
I can’t find the words to explain
You’re such a hot temptation
You just walk right in and take me away, yes
You’ve got the kind of lips that touch me
When they’re feeling mine
And all I wanna say is thank you baby
Cause you’re right on time…

Can’t you see that I love nobody else
Can’t you see that I love nobody else
And time won’t take my love away

Let me tell you
Let me tell you

You get down to the real nitty-gritty
You’re the only one
the only one who can tell
Who can fill me with my every desire
you make me feel good, so good
I want to say yes to your love sensation
I want to say yes to your love sensation
I want to say, baby, yes

tell you now
Can’t you see that I love nobody else
Can’t you see that I love nobody else
And time won’t take my love away

A song for someone I miss

Apr20

“I Want Your Love” by Chic

Do you feel like you ever want
to try my love and see how well it fits ?
Baby can’t you see
when you look at me
I can’t kick this feelin’ when it hits
all alone in my bed at night
I grab my pillow and squeeze it tight
I think of you and I dream of you all the time.
What am I gonna do ?

Chorus:
I want your love
I want your love.
I want your love
I want your love.

Sometime
don’t you feel like you
never really had a love that’s real ?
well
here I am
and who’s to say
a better love you won’t find today ?
Just one chance and I will show you love
like no other
two steps above.
On your ladder I’ll be a peg.
I want your lovin’
please don’t make me beg.

I want your love
I need your love.
I’ll share my dreams
and make you see
how really bad your love I need.

I want your love.
I need your love
just like the birds need sky above.
I’ll share my dreams
and make you see
how really bad your love I need.
Chorus

Runway!

Apr8

It was a feeling unlike any other. All 4’11” of me just strutting, parading, serving it, working it. Because if there was anything I learned all those years on the dance floor in gay clubs, it was to let these mothers have it. All of a sudden, it didn’t matter if I was short or Peruvian or carrying an extra pound(or five.) When I was walking across that floor, sometimes in the company of drag queens or club queens, sometimes alone, sometimes holding my Cookie Monster doll, once with an open umbrella, occasionally with a Corona bottle in hand, whether I was wearing a vintage Adidas jacket and sneaks or a cute little dress, I was invincible, magnificent, glorious. Just play one of these classic tracks(like my recent iPod addition, Patrice Rushen’s “Haven’t You Heard”) and I’m back. Ms. Cookie, Cookie, Mouse, Lil India, Hayward, me.

So fierce!