Triple Confunkshun! “Loves Train” Then and Thereafter Version

I did not click upon a LinkedIN message to my email entitled “Con#Linkedinpuoi”; didn’t look like something I wanted to learn about.  Yet, simultaneously, reading the letters “Con”  reminded me of one of my favorite music bands of all times, Confunkshun! Can you see why?  It was the “Con” thing.  Immediately, I went to YouTube to hear them again – it has been a while – and my/their classic slow jam, “Loves Train”.

Original Soul Train:

I want to show you three versions of this favorite song that only time has changed from Soul Train to the best one I have on vinyl.  If you’ve never sung along to this great song, here are the words:

Warm night, can’t sleep
Too hurt, too weak
Gotta call her up
Dial that, number, no one, answers
Till it’s two o’clock

And if by chance, you let me come over
Out on the street, I want to see ya baby
And if by chance you let me just hold ya
I’m down on my knee, I wanna please ya baby, I
[I’ll be your righteous lover!]

She said ‘sugar, honey, darlin’
I really wanna see ya too
It’s just that someone’s, over, and baby
I really wanna be with chu’

But if by chance you let me just hold ya
I’m calling I’m free, I wanna see ya baby
When in need you said you would be here
And you hold the key
To my very being baby and I
[I love you, baby]

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just have to keep on goin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train…

On a warm night, lady, wants her, baby
So she calls him up
Dial that, number, no one, answers
Till it’s two o’clock

If by chance, you just come over
‘Cause darlin’ please, I’ve got to see ya baby
And when in need you said you would be here
And now I’m in need and please believe me baby
I love you darlin’ (listen babe)

If you are that special lover
Love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train.
[You don’t need no, you don’t need no ticket to ride]

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just got to keep on goin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Listen babe, listen baby]

If deep sorrow you’ve been soakin’
But you’ve just have to keep on strokin’,
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Loves a hurting thang ya’ll that makes you want to (cry, come on)]

If you are that special lover
And love keeps you tied to another
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[Find yourself alone]

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
But you’ve just have to keep on flowin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train
[In time everything’s gonna be alright]

If deep sorrow you’ve been soakin’
But you’ve just got to keep on strokin’
That’s the way it goes on love’s train…..

Major Props to Michael Cooper & Felton C Pilate 

And this nice version, (if Tom Joyner were not following Michael on-stage, like his usual ass! )

 

Which version do you prefer?  Let the world know in “comments”.  Michael is better not bald; his voice seems still on-point and the band the same.  As for me, the original will always be one of the songs that lives inside the soundtrack of my life as the Vinyl version below, with ALL of the above lyrics (not just an edited version).

“In Time Everything’s gonna be alright, C’mon…”

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Out of the blue, or maybe her red hair (now with a white streak!), my jukebox-like mind selected this classic 1992 Bonnie Raitt jam on this cold, winter’s night, to keep me warm. I had to write the title down on a sticky because I knew I wanted to blog it here, as my first Grammy winning recording artist revisit post of 2018.  I like this song! It smacks of keeping things going and controversy.  Maybe I’ve played it during my early Top 40 radio DJ days on an overnight stint or two, but it didn’t phase me as much as it does now.  Music is peculiar like that. Like when suddenly, you recognize the words to a favorite song you’ve heard and mumbled through thousands of times!

A cute redhead in tight blue jeans passed me as I was leaving Publix supermarket this afternoon. Her back was to me, pursuing a shopping cart, when I said softly, “Bonnie Raitt”. She caught it; turned and smiled at me.  Maybe I should have taken it further than just a return smile.  Seems like I’m trying to “get lucky” at Publix these days.  Hmmm.  Maybe I can give them workers there somethin’ to talk about, like a love connection! I digress…

In the video below, you can enjoy this confident and talented woman who crosses musical genres like a New York City pedestrian crosses the street.  I didn’t know that she had a guitar named after her, and is the first female guitarist to have received that honor (Fender)! Major props.

Bonnie Raitt impresses me as a veteran who knows a thing or two, and who music industry types cannot put “something over” on.  She’s got that “look” in her eye.  A rock and Roll Hall of Famer, she also reminds me of my musical acquaintance, Janey Street, who also plays guitar.

I would love to interview her and apply my two score in radio as a DJ to a future review.

 

Check her cool website out! https://www.bonnieraitt.com/

Please add your impressions on Bonnie in “comments”. Happy New Year 2018!