Keyboardist & Vocals: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, back to those golden days when AM radio filled the airwaves with sweet voices harmonizing in perfect unison. Oh, those were the times when harmony groups would make your heart sing and your soul sway! I learned about Billy Stewart. He was singing “Sitting in the Park” back in the '60s, bringing warmth and joy to everyone tuning in. Fast forward to 1980. We were treated to an updated version by ...
Oct 15, 2024•3 min
Intro music: Samplefocus.com Usage: Standard license Story and Cover art by: Gail Nobles You didn’t think podcasting could have an AM radio sound, did you? Well, I suppose in this digital age, sound quality is king, but let’s not forget the charm of those crackly, static-filled airwaves we grew up with. Ah, the golden days of radio! There’s something about tuning in to your favorite station, praying that the signal comes in clear so you can enjoy the music without the distraction. Once a radio s...
Oct 14, 2024•4 min
Photo : Drew de F Fawkes Usage: CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/24Fr2uK Keyboardist : Gail Nobles Hello, I’m Gail Nobles and Jalen Ngonda is here to take you on a soulful journey with his hit “Anyone In Love.” This vibrant tune is a dazzling blend of doo-wop and modern R&B that’ll take you back to those smooth ballad days. Those days when you first heard the Chilites, Blue Magic, and Enchantment just to name a few. Jalen’s smooth vocals deliver a timeless love story. Anyone could relate to the s...
Oct 10, 2024•2 min
Photo: asterix611 - Flickr Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 Story by: Gail Nobles Hello, I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to the Whitney Soul Podcast. Whitney was our music. She was The Voice. I’ve learned something important through her every note, every lyric, and her every performance. I learned from Whitney that life is a journey. In the beginning of her career, for me, it come was just all about music and learning how to sing. But Whitney sang her songs as if she had lived them and with f...
Sep 20, 2024•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Ending music by: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Today's topic The Lost Generation. Got to bring back the music. The music of love. A time when music was great with soul and had the sound of smooth harmonies. And I'm thinking of a fabulous group known as the lost generation. With their silky vocals and that sweet R&B groove, they brought us tunes that made the world smile. They knew how to stir those emotions sending love notes through the airwaves straight to your he...
Sep 05, 2024•4 min
Hello groovy podcast listeners. It's your host Gail Nobles on the Cat Bear. I've got something that got folks scratching their heads - records and podcast. Now let me break it down for you. Picture this: You hear the music from your radio. That's the vibe my friends, but here's the kicker - when it comes to podcasts, we’re throwing those vinyl grooves right out the window. Why? Let me tell you. Podcasts all about the spoken word. Imagine a conversation between your favorite host, dishing out sto...
Aug 26, 2024•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Cover art by: Gail Nobles We celebrate the sensational sound of a truly captivating Queen of Urban Pop. The one and only Aaliyah. Princes of R&B with a voice that flows like velvet and moves that could mesmerize the hardest of hearts. That's what her song Death of a Playa is all about. Hmm! Hm! Aaliyah was the epitome of cool that brought that sultry blend of R&B and hip-hop straight to the fourth front of our minds and our stereo speakers. Born with a gift and an i...
Aug 23, 2024•3 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wikipedia Public Domain So many of Selena's fans are missing her. Her songs still play in the minds and hearts of many. Selena Quintanilla is a beloved icon whose music continues to resonate with fans around the world. Her Tejano, pop, and regional music not only showcase her incredible talent, but also her vibrant spirit and culture songs like “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” Como La Flor” and Amor Prohibido remain timeless-timeless classics that evoke nostalgia and emotion. Her...
Aug 22, 2024•3 min
EXPLANAE MOMENT Music Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 How Patti LaBelle Got her Stage Name is today's topic. I'm Gail Nobles Patti LaBelle's real name is Patricia. She said in an interview it was a car dealership in Philadelphia that decided to give her the name Patti LaBelle. It means The Beautiful, and he didn't see the beauty in Pattie. She said he was a lying man. Patti said that he had a record label, and his name was Harold B Robinso. He had a studio in the basement of ...
Aug 20, 2024•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wikipedia Public Domain Hello I'm Gail Nobles.Welcome to the show. I Have Learned To Respect the Power of Love is a song that was written by Angela Winbush and Renée Moore, of the singing duo Renée and Angela. It is a song recorded and performed by Stephanie Mills and was the second single released from her 1985 self-titled album. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart, and remained number one for two weeks in May 1986. I Have Learned ...
Aug 06, 2024•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo : Canadian Film Centre Usage : Wikipedia CC BY 2.0 Ai No Corrida" is a song by the English singer and multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, written by Jankel and Kenny Young. It was first recorded in 1980 and featured on Chaz Jankel's debut album Chas Jankel for A&M Records. Quincy Jones's 1981 recording of the song was a top 30 hit in the United States, and won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals in 1982. When they sa...
Jul 28, 2024•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Lynda Marrokal Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Shotgun Tom Kelly is a radio and television personality, and I like his style. I like how I heard him talk while playing the 60s. I like his voice. He is a radio and television personality. He is a two-time Emmy award winner, Billboard Air Personality of the Year winner, an inductee into the California Music Hall of Fame (2023),and recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Born in San Diego, Kelly worked at KDEO, ...
Jul 24, 2024•4 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wikipedia Usage: CC BY-SA 2.0 Berry Gordy is multiple things. He's a retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades. As a songwriter, Gordy composed or co-composed a number of hits including "Lonely Teardrops" and "That's Why" (Jackie Wilson), "Shop Around" (the Miracles), a...
Jul 22, 2024•3 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wikimedia Usage: Public Domain There was Vietnam and there was a civil rights movement and protest. Marvin Gaye recorded What's Going On and was released in 1971. Stevie Wonder recorded Loves in Need of Love Today, and It was released in 1976. Music and it's power. Motown was more than music and celebration. I say Motown is the sound of people telling millions of stories about love. I think Motown had an affect on all of America. Motown was popular in the US and the ...
Jul 22, 2024•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Art by: Gail Nobles In the music business people can become lost and go in the wrong direction. My mom used to tell me: God didn't put them in that spotlight. They put themselves in there or they forget God. I agree but we don’t know what's in a person's heart. Whitney knew she needed God. She was always singing the Gospel. She was brought up in church, and she never stopped going to church. Like any other human being, she had some troubles. Whatever was troubling Whitney, ...
Jul 20, 2024•2 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Art by: Gail Nobles From what we are told, Aaliyah is not alive. Though dead, she's certainly hard to kill. When she was alive, she told the world she was mysterious. Well, I didn't know her, but I believe her words because it seems to me she still speaks in dreams and works on the conscience. Fans are still talking about her, and she's been dead since 2001. It has nothing to do with an autopsy, a heartbeat, or a body. If you know anything about Christ, you know mystery. I ...
Jul 20, 2024•3 min
Keyboardist: Gail Nobles The New Radical sent us a positive message. The New Radicals was an American alternative rock band formed in 1997 in Los Angeles. They recorded a song entitled You Get What You Give. It was the first and most successful single from their only studio album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (1998). Released on November 3, 1998, it reached number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In 2006, Ice-T was asked on Late Nigh...
Jul 17, 2024•2 min
Keyboardist: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: John Mathew Smith Usage: Wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.0 MC Hammer believed in feeding people positive things through his music to help souls. He once said in an interview with Revolt: ‘that he grew up in a very negative and violent environment. He viewed music as a way to escape. He did not need to take his music and the same tension that was already happening around the house and in the street. So when he created songs, he wanted it to be a way to e...
Jul 09, 2024•3 min
Announcement The Bill Withers birthday party is coming. An all star celebration of the music and Legacy of the Bill Withers featuring Grandma's Band and the voice of Noel McCalla. They'll be singing Grandma's Hands and more live hits and fan favorites. In 2024, this year, The Bill Withers would have been turning 86 years of age for information about the Bill Withers birthday party tickets go to seetickets.com. The show will take place in London 229 Thursday, July 4, 2024. TSSM Also support DJ Fi...
Jun 21, 2024•1 min
CB NEWS Music Intro: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo credit: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com Usage: CC BY-SA 2.0 Angela Bofill was a singer songwriter of Cuban Puerto Rican origins. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s and is most known for singles such as “ This Time I'll Be Sweeter” Angel Of The Night” and I Try. I know her from singing the song Tonight I Give In. It was number 12 on the US R&B chart in 1983. When I heard Angela Bof...
Jun 17, 2024•2 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Chaka’s song “Ain’t Nobody” was released in 1983. quickly gathered popularity, and reached number one on the US Billboard R&B chart and number 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1984 at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards, "Ain't Nobody" won for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It has become one of Khan's signature songs. Rufus keyboardist David "Hawk" Wolinski wrote the song around a repeating synthesizer loop backed by a Linn LM-1 drum computer; howeve...
Jun 11, 2024•2 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast cover art by: Gail Nobles Today I want to talk to you about Kool and the Gang and their album “Spirit of the Boogie”, and the album cover. Spirit of the Boogie is a six studio album by Kool and the Gang released in 1975. The sound of the music single reminds me of Jungle Boogie. You can hear Donald Boyce who was rapping on Jungle Boogie. I'm checking out the artwork on the album cover of Spirit of the Boogie. Its done by Frank Daniel (3). He is an art director and g...
Jun 05, 2024•2 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Intro music and vocals by: Gail Nobles Photo: tm_10001 Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/4waN1U Usage: CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Until You Come Back is a single from Whitney Houston's 1998 studio album. It was written and produced by Babyface . I loved hearing Whitney sing that song. It's a beautiful ballad. I love the music put to it. The song is a great sound for R&B. I've seen comments on the song quite a bit, but I don't know how well the song has done on the charts. At the time it...
May 25, 2024•2 min
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.0 "Caught Up in the Rapture" is a 1986 ballad song by American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. It was released as the follow-up single after "Sweet Love" from her album Rapture. "Caught Up in the Rapture" was Baker's third top ten R&B single, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart, and number nine on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles chart. It was also a minor success on the Billbo...
May 21, 2024•2 min
Podcast vocals: By Gail Nobles Aaliyah wasn't the only one that died in a plane crash in 2001. I remember another singer being pronounced dead in a plane crash in 2001 named Melanie Thornton. She sang the song titled Love How You Love Me. On the night of November 24, 2001. Thornton was one of the 24 people who died in the plane crash of Crossair Flight 3597 near Zürich Switzerland at the age of 34. The main cause of the accident was the Captain descending the plane too early causing it to crash ...
May 11, 2024•3 min
Story: Jimmy Red Panda Story written by: Gail Nobles ©️2024 Lyrics by: Gail Nobles Art by: Gail Nobles Background music: Samplefocus.com Usage: Standard License There was a man whose name was Jimmy Panda. He was a tall and big man who people called the Cat Bear. Some called him the Red Panda. He sat down on a bar stool to shorten his height and smoked a cherry cigar to talk to women. The women felt that they needed a ladder to hug him when he stood. Jimmy lived in the days of Music’s Great Depre...
Apr 27, 2024•3 min
Intro by: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: Wxkat - Own work Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Tonight on American Idol, I saw an interesting musical artist named Iam Tongi. He has a beautiful voice and beautiful song titled Why Kiki. It was released in 2023 of September. He has a music video out for the song. You can see it on YouTube. You can also hear his music on Spotify. Iam Tongi won season 21 of American Idol. He is the first person from Hawaii. The first Pacific Islander and the first...
Apr 08, 2024•2 min
Music and Vocals by: Gail Nobles Cover art by: Gail Nobles Interlude written by: Gail Nobles Interlude: Aaliyah Stayed In Her Own Lane Aaliyah stayed in her own lane. She was hot like fire in full speed. Aaliyah was in the lead. She seems timeless without end. Whisper: Ya'll hear that? Music commentary news.
Apr 06, 2024•39 sec
Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast intro: Gail Nobles Photo: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Wikipedia Today's topic: Aaliyah:Turn The Page. The song Turn The Page by Aaliyah is track three on Music of the Heart (The Album) produced by Guy Roche. It was released in 1999. The song brings old memories to my mind. Aaliyah sung these words in the lyrics: What would I do if some strange morning I opened up my eyes to find you gone? I can'...
Apr 06, 2024•3 min
Song by: Sam Smith Song written by: Sam Smith Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: pitpony.photography - Own Usage: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 “Diamonds" is a song by English singer Sam Smith, released through Capitol Records on the 18th of September 2020 as the second single from their third studio album, Love Goes. The song was written by Sam Smith with its producers Shellback and Oscar Görres. A remix of the song by English DJ Joel Corry and an acoustic version were released on the 9th of October 2020. T...
Apr 02, 2024•2 min
