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Beautiful Dan. Lou Rawls and TSOP takes this Philly kid right back to a time of wonder and awe. Thanks!

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Wow, to have been right there when all that TSOP stuff was hitting… I am jealous!

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Lougubrious indeed!

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Oooh - nice one! 😝

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Thanks for that trip down memory lane. 1976 was a big year for me. Starting with the bicentennial celebration in Boston. I got out of the Navy and got married in 1976!!These songs are burned into my memory. I do like Lou Rawls a lot. The songs he did with Sam Cooke are really cool. Gotta love that Philly sound. Thanks again for your contribution.

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No other voice like Lou Rawls... smooth as silk...

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Great song love the Philly sound 68-78 love to get that whole compilation.

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Yeah, you can’t go wrong with any of that stuff!

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Great piece, great track!

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It’s a favorite and a great trip back into a car with a giant knob that when you changed the channel you heard the “flip flip flip” in between.

Michael and I still play “Lady Love” every time at Club Lucky on the jukebox.

It’s always met with our best impression of LR and a serious pause into “Lady Luuuv”

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Awww yeah — that's gotta be my #2 Lou jam!

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I love Lou Rawls! Thank you.

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Once again, Dan, this was a very fun read. I think we're about the same age because I too remember when this song took over the radio. I think one of the reasons that it has stuck with me over the years was just how different it sounded from everything else that was on the charts.

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I was twelve and feeling very vulnerable in 1976, so this song was a little too sexy for me then. Thanks for this essay. I liked taking another look at this great song from today's more secure perspective!

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Thanks for this Dan. There was a lot that I didn't know, and that's changed.

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My connection is similar to yours, in that my mother was a person who loved her under-the-cabinet radio and had it tuned permanently to WBZ in Boston. Rawls’ nascent baritone and that distinctive piano undertone was an extension of our home. I appreciate your deep dive into the personalities behind the scenes. Groovealicious memories.

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"You'll Never Find" is a classic....back in the mid-90s, when Lou Rawls was a guest on Early Edition, the TV show set in Chicago, my wife was doing her best Lou imitation one day. Lo and behold, who had come into the area but Mr. Lou Rawls himself. He responded with class, sort of chuckling at her rendition, if my memory of her telling me the story is somewhat accurate.

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