Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

[JRV]

OK, I guess I'm going to have to go through with it now. Seeing Barry Manilow on the list gives me courage...I don't think I have anything to top that!

- I went to the trouble to burn my favorite Seal songs to CD, and it has occupied a place of honor in my car's changer for at least 3 years. It's the one CD I can enjoy at any time regardless of mood.

- Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 (Oh, the shame!) (Not to mention a band with a Y2K bug.)

- Basia (It's a noooooooo day for yooooooooo) (A Polish woman singing Salsa-influenced music in English)

- Sara McLaughlin (Zvinke, I include her only because you did, but I've never thought she was one to be embarassed about)

Keith: Jonathan Schwartz, the longtime afternoon DJ of NYC's then-prog station, WNEW-FM, was a loyal Sinatra fan and often worked him into sets. There's even a connection to Barry M. in this: I don't know why I remember this 25 years later, but I remember him playing "I Write the Songs" by Manilow when it was a current hit, then breaking in and saying, "Now, don't get me wrong. Barry Manilow is a moderately talented musician. But this man--this man--writes the songs." Then he played a whole set of Frank Sinatra. (Of course he was dead wrong, Sinatra didn't write anything and Manilow did, but who's counting?)