WARMER MIXTAPES #1642 | by David Poe

1. Heatwave | The Groove Line
A tight and joyful 1970s Funky Pop hit written by Rod Temperton, who would go on to write some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits, including Thriller.

 2. Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni | Cantate Domino (Performed by The Choir Of Somerville College, Oxford, conductor: David Crown)
I sang this song from age 9 to 15 with a boys choir. As my voice changed over the years, I learned all the vocal parts, which was highly instructive. Like a fair amount of Religious Music, the arrangement sounds best when you sing the shit out of it, which we did.

3. Chocolate Genius. | My Mom
Even if I knew of other ballads that considered the crushing effects of Alzheimer’s Disease in an aging parent from their child’s perspective, I would still love this song for the chordal shift before the chorus, which illustrates the lyric that follows: It’s been five years, and some change.

4. The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir | Kalimankou Denkou (The Evening Gathering) (from Marcel Cellier Présente: Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares - Volume 1)
Ancient and Modern, Eastern and Western, Ecstasy and Resignation.

5. The Flamingos | I Only Have Eyes For You (Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler Cover)
Bewitching Doo-Wop.



6. T Bone Burnett | Dope Island
Hard to pick one from Tooth Of Crime, a record of transcendent songs created for the Sam Shepard play of the same name.

7. Prince And The Revolution | Tamborine
I love when Prince has fun with it. There’s songs more exemplary of his genius, but I always loved this jam.

8. Grey Reverend | Little Jose
Though it is odd to choose an instrumental track by such a poignant singer-songwriter, I’ve loved this acoustic guitar thing since I first heard it in a late night Jeremy Sole mix on KCRW in Los Angeles.

9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced
The reversed drums and guitar and poetic pickup lines of this song were the first to draw me into the world of this ingenious singer-songwriter (who apparently played a little guitar as well.)

10. Contemporary Gospel Chorus The High School Of Music And Art | Never Alone (Fame Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
A celebration of Oxygen. A piano that sounds like it could go off the rails at any second, but never does. Harmonic Majesty.