Episode #55: Things Are Gonna Get Easier

The 55th episode of Star Time is the last one produced in my now-former home of Columbia City, the South Seattle neighborhood my family and I lived in for nearly ten and a half years. The dark underbelly of a boomtown economy has forced us outside the city limits. None of this figures in this episode until the last 15 minutes, though. Before that, you get a perfectly pleasant lineup of '60s and '70s R&B songs (some actual hits!). Next week will be the first show from our new location, but unlike Amazon's second headquarters scramble we're not forcing American cities into a bloody PR war to decide where we're going. We're already there, you see. Long live Columbia City.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Etta James	Seven Day Fool	1961	Argo
The Andantes	(Like a) Nightmare	1964	V.I.P.
The Apollas	I'm Under the Influence of Love	1967	Warner Bros
Gloria Jones	Tainted Love	1965	Champion
Sly & the Family Stone	Ride the Rhythm	1968	Epic
Pic & Bill	You Walk So Fine	1969	Better (Spain)
Keanya Collins	I'll Get Over It	1968	Blue Rock
Betty Everett	1900 Yesterday	1969	UNI
Set 2
Marlena Shaw	California Soul	1969	Cadet
Marvin Holmes & the Uptights	Grab This Thing	1969	UNI
The Latinaires	Society	1970	Cotique
The Temptations	I Gotta Find a Way (to Get You Back)	1969	Motown
Society's Bag	Let It Crawl	1972	Warner Bros.
Terry Callier	Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)	1972	Cadet
Billy Byrd	Lost in the Crowd	1973	Scream
Laura Nyro & Labelle	It's Gonna Take a Miracle	1971	Columbia
Set 3
Carl Carlton	Everlasting Love	1974	ABC
Brother Soul	Cookies	1974	Leo Mini
Minnie Riperton	Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down	1974	Epic
War	Me and Baby Brother	1973	United Artists
Nina Simone	Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter	1974	RCA
The Natural Four	You Can't Keep Running Away	1974	Curtom
Dooley Silverspoon	Game Players	1976	Seville
Set 4/Outro
KC & the Sunshine Band	You Don't Know	1974	TK
Automatic Man	My Pearl	1976	Island
The Four Tops	When She Was My Girl	1981	Casablanca
Spinners	I'm Coming Home	1974	Atlantic
The Main Ingredient	Rolling Down a Mountainside	1975	RCA Victor
The Five Stairsteps	O-o-h Child	1970	Buddah