"Night Time Is The Right Time" is an R&B standard made popular by Ray Charles' hit version in 1959, but had roots in earlier blues songs like Roosevelt Sykes' "Night Time Is The Right Time" from 1937. Previous mixes included versions by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Aretha Franklin and a long practice take by Ray Charles. This week includes both the Sykes and Charles versions as well as a take by Joe Williams with The Mel Lewis Orchestra.
"Toot Toot Tootsie! (Goodbye) had already long been a standard, popularized by Eddie Cantor, by the time Al Jolson sang it in the first film with dialogue, The Jazz Singer, in 1927. On this week's mix is a version by him along with versions by Sonny Rollins and Dean Martin.
One other song repeats this week: Al Green's "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)": the original and a cover by Marcia Griffiths.
New Order emerged as a band when Joy Division dissolved after their lead singer Ian Curtis' suicide. This week's mix is bookended with an early song of theirs, "Your Silent Face", and a single released by Joy Division, "Atmosphere", after they had broken up but before they became New Order.
The rest: a version of the R&B standard "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Roy Ayers Ubiquity, the spare "Escapism (Gettin' Free)" by Digable Planets, the oft-smapled "Rock Creek Park" by The Blackbyrds, the dramatic "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Bobby Womack, the sweeping "Last Goodbye" by Jeff Buckley, the determined "I'm Gonna Run Away From You" by Tami Lynn, the sly "A Century Of Fakers" by Belle & Sebastian, the name-dropping "Jazz Cats Pt. 1" by Madlib alter ego Quasimoto, the loping "Ghetto's Of The Mind" by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth and Hank Williams' forlorn "I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay".
