English-born songwriter Pam Sawyer encouraged "Tainted Love" singer Gloria Jones with her songwriting and they became a songwriting duo for Motown. One of their songs, originally recorded by Thelma Houston for her 1973 eponymous album, was "I Ain't That Easy To Lose". Bettye Swan recorded a version a couple years later with the grammar corrected. This mix includes versions by Jr. Walker & The All-Stars and Sister Love as well as those two.
Two other songs repeat on the mix: Morrissey's "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" from his 1992 album Your Arsenal along with David Bowie's cover from a year later and The Shangri-La's 1964 hit "Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)" along with a live cover by The Go-Go's seventeen years later.
"Millionaire" by Dudley Moore appears on the soundtrack for the 1967 British film Bedazzled. The Tom Middleton mix here appends the main theme of "The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe" by The Robert Mellin Orchestra and "Clangers" by The Clangers from the late 60s British animated sci fi show.
The rest: Saukrates' metronomic "Father Time", Mr. Bojangles didactic "Prophesy Reveal", Imported Moods' sweet "I'm A Scorpio", MF DOOM's Spider Man tv show-sampling "Kookies", Noname's piercing "Namesake", the futuristic "Nite Flights" by The Walker Brothers, a live version of The Rolling Stones' "Worried About You" a few years before it was released, the early Hall & Oates track "Gotta Be Stronger", Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra with the airy "Sentimental & Melancholy" and Lottie Kimbrough's determined "Rollin' Log Blues".
