Silk's Valentine's Day Double Shot

For this year's Valentine offering, my podcasting partner Silky1 brings you not one, but two shows representing both sides of this day. 
First up is the second installment of his Love Letter series he dropped on us last year at this time... the focus here is simply love & being in love. 
Silk follows that up with a show that focuses on the other side... heartbreak & pain. 

Enjoy ~ OP

THE LOVE LETTER PART II

Happy Valentine's Day !!!! This show is dedicated to my little brother, Thomas Ford, and his wife Shannon Ford. Happy valentine's day, fam.  We got some Destiny's Child, DeBarge, Sugarfoot, Tease,Al Green, Raphael Saadiq, and so much more. Enjoy !!!!











Raphael Saadiq - Still Ray
PJ Morton feat. Stevie Wonder - Only One
Destiny's Child - Nuclear
Jeannie Reynolds - I Know I'll Always Be In Love With You
Chris Jasper - Like I Do
DeBarge - You're So Gentle, So Kind
Faith Evans - All This Love
Jamie Hawkins - Spend My Life With You
Brian McKnight - Sweeter
Sugarfoot - I'm Your Sugar
Tease - Soft Music
Anthony David feat. Algebra - Official
Anita Baker - Love You To The Letter
Al Green - Always
Tony Terry - Forever Yours
The Brothers Johnson - Love Is

71m 57s

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SILK'S TEARDROP LOUNGE PRESENTS: THE HEARTBREAK LETTER

This one's for those not so lucky in love. Tracks from Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Lil Louis, Brandy, Kenny Lattimore, Electric Empire, Donnie Hathaway, etc..... Peace.

Mary J. Blige - Memories

Jermaine Jackson - Where Are You Now

Trina & Tamara - Blue

R. Kelly - Clipped Wings

Lil Louis - Drummer Boy

Eddie Kendricks - Each Day I Cry A Little

Randy & The Gypsys - The Love We Almost Had

Brandy - Wish Your Love Away

Kenny Lattimore feat. Kelly Price - Back 2 Cool

Geoffrey Williams - The Drop

Stevie Wonder - Rocket Love

Electric Empire - Then It's Over

Siji - The Day Ahead

Erykah Badu - Out My Mind, Just In Time

Donny Hathaway - Make It On Your Own

71m 06s

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Reunion Radio 02-04-2013

Hey everyone, Old Pro here. Today I'm dropping a new Reunion Radio podcast that's in the spirit of what I started out doing 4 years ago with my streaming station. I wanted to put sets together that mimicked what I felt over the air radio could sound like today, if not for  the corporate stranglehold that exists. Beyond my personal enjoyment of putting these together, I wanted to help expose older R&B fans to some new music & artists that I've found fits in with the 70s, 80s & 90s tracks we also play. Since I'm the one picking tracks, (along with contributions from my podcasting partner Silk) I'm going to no doubt use my own ear and preferences when it comes to how these shows sound.. my preference is for songs featuring steady grooves & strong melodies. However as a DJ with over 30 years experience, I also know not to just playing for myself.. I always try and broaden the sound and styles to give a good cross mix for broader appeal. That could mean playing things labeled pop, electronic, house, dance, etc... if it fits what I'm doing here I'm going to play it regardless of the genre it gets filed under.

As with any 'radio station', everyone isn't going to like everything we play.. and that's cool. All I ask in return for doing these shows is that you take the time to give each track a chance.. don't dismiss a song simply because it's an artist you've never heard of or don't like based on name recognition.. trust me when I tell you I've missed a lot of good stuff over the years by closing my mind like this. That's one reason why I asked Silk to join me in putting these things together.. he's put me on to a lot of shit over the years that I would have otherwise missed or been late on. Having someone that comes at this a bit differently, and not only helping by contributing tracks to my shows but also doing his own solo sets, is the best way to keep Reunion Radio from becoming stale and predictable.. something I hate about over the air radio today.

Now make no mistake, we have no delusions that we're some big time podcast with 10s of 1000s of downloads or anything like that.. in fact I'm honored and blown away that we have as many people listening to these as we do. Our average show hits somewhere in the 150-250 range with some climbing well over the 1,000 mark. I mean it when I say we really appreciate those of you who come back every month and download shows from this blog and our podomatic page.. but we know those numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to the big timers out there. Still that doesn't mean we shouldn't put our best foot forward and bring to our supporters the best possible shows we can make.

That brings me to our offering today.. Today's show marks a relaunch of sorts for my Reunion Radio signature show. I'll still be doing the occasional special like Hood Classics.. but for the most part I will be leaving these themed podcasts to Silk & keeping my focus on the Reunion Radio shows, which include the full gamut of what we do here. This show today came out a little on the dance heavy side.. We got 2 of the stronger European R&B/Disco acts going today, Cool Million & Joey Negro, Soulful-House icons Miguel Migs & Lisa Shaw, some classic Janet, Midnight Star & Prince.. and my personal favorite Electronic duo Chromeo's ode to German Electro-Funk legends Kraftwerk. Making things even juicer are brand new songs by R&B legends Teena Marie, The System & Charlie Wilson.. the latter of which was produced by Cameo's Charlie Singleton. We also switch it up with some Modern-Funk from Amsterdam's Henning (Dam Funk fans will love this one) and the B. Slade aka Tonex remake of a Prince classic... full track list in comment section.

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Thanks for taking the time to download & listen... New Silk shows will be coming in the next week or so.

Peace
~OP