Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown on WDLT March 31, 2018

It's Saturday night and time for Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown!  The Countdown highlights the top 10 most requested southern soul music hits of this week from WDLT 104.1 FM, the greatest station in the Mobile, Alabama, area. They have an awesome "All Blues Saturday" show and their on-air personalities - Nikki deMarks, Stormy, and Cathe B - are amazing! The Countdown comes on at 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 EST) each Saturday night.

To listen to the station if you're in the Mobile area, turn your radio to 104.1 FM and if you're online, go to www.1041wdlt.com. You can also listen via iHeart Radio on your phone/tablet and, if you have an Echo, do like I do and simply tell Alexa to play 104.1 WDLT!

This week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't No - Wendell B

  3.  Chocolate Drop - Coldrank

  4.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  5.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  6.  A-T-Ti-tude - Wilson Meadows

  7.  The Baddest - Magic One

  8.  One Night Stand - Pokey featuring Coldrank

  9.  Work It - Tara Keith
10.  Inbox - J-Fitz

Last week's top 10: 

  1.  If You Don't No - Wendell B

  2.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  3.  Chocolate Drop - Coldrank

  4.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  5.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  6.  A-T-Ti-tude - Wilson Meadows

  7.  Inbox - J-Fitz

  8.  The Baddest - Magic One

  9.  One Night Stand - Pokey featuring Coldrank
10.  Holding On/Can't Let Go - Calvin Richardson

Cathe's Classic Pick of the Week was "Happy Time" by Willie Clayton. 

I want to welcome "Work It" by Tara Keith back to the Countdown. It had dropped off for a second but is back this week.  I really like that song!

Ok, Wendell B's "If You Don't No" took over the #1 spot last week but it's back to #2 this week.  A heartfelt congratulations goes to Ronnie Bell for the awesome "I'll PayThe Shipping Cost" which is #1 again this week!!  There is something about that song.

Have a wonderful Easter!!  Christ the Lord has risen!!

And tomorrow is April 1st.  This year is flying!!

I love southern soul music! Thank you Cathe B for a wonderful countdown and WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!! I love southern soul music! Thank you WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!!

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Omar Cunningham - "Tennessee Whiskey"

Yes Omar Cunningham!!!  This song is proof that good music is good music, no matter the genre.  Omar sings this country-western Chris Stapleton song and does an absolutely beautiful job.

I used to spend my nights out in a barroom
Liquor was the only love I've known
But you rescued me from reaching for the bottle
And brought me back from being too far gone

Chorus

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
You're as sweet as strawberry wine
You're as warm as a glass of brandy
And honey I stay stoned on your love all the time

I've looked for love in all the same old places
Found the bottom of the bottle's always dry
But when you poured out your heart I didn't waste it
Cause there is nothing like your love to get me high

You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey
You're as sweet as strawberry wine
You're as warm as, oh a glass of brandy
And honey I stay stoned on your love all the time

Chorus (repeat)

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And honey I stay stoned on your love all the time!
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Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown on WDLT March 24, 2018

It's Saturday night and time for Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown!  The Countdown highlights the top 10 most requested southern soul music hits of this week from WDLT 104.1 FM, the greatest station in the Mobile, Alabama, area. They have an awesome "All Blues Saturday" show and their on-air personalities - Nikki deMarks, Stormy, and Cathe B - are amazing! The Countdown comes on at 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 EST) each Saturday night.

To listen to the station if you're in the Mobile area, turn your radio to 104.1 FM and if you're online, go to www.1041wdlt.com. You can also listen via iHeart Radio on your phone/tablet and, if you have an Echo, do like I do and simply tell Alexa to play 104.1 WDLT!

This week's top 10: 

  1.  If You Don't No - Wendell B

  2.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  3.  Chocolate Drop - Coldrank

  4.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  5.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  6.  A-T-Ti-tude - Wilson Meadows

  7.  Inbox - J-Fitz

  8.  The Baddest - Magic One

  9.  One Night Stand - Pokey featuring Coldrank
10.  Holding On/Can't Let Go - Calvin Richardson

Last week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't No - Wendell B

  3.  Inbox - J-Fitz

  4.  Chocolate Drop - Coldrank

  5.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  6.  Superwoman - David J/Geno

  7.  A-T-Ti-tude - Wilson Meadows

  8.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  9.  Work It - Tara Keith
10.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy

Cathe's Classic Pick of the Week was the sad but beautiful "Twisting The Knife" by Lou Pride. 

We had a few new songs added to the Countdown this week: "Holding On/Can't Let Go" by Calvin Richardson, "One Night Stand" by Pokey featuring Coldrank, and "The Baddest" by Magic One!

And please give it up to Wendell B for our new number 1 song this week, "If You Don't No!!" Congratulations!!   But at the same time, I also have to congratulate Ronnie Bell for a fantastic, amazing run at #1!

Have a wonderful Palm Sunday!!

I love southern soul music! Thank you Cathe B for a wonderful countdown and WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!! I love southern soul music! Thank you WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!!

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Avail Hollywood - "Zodiac Swing"

One of the reasons I love southern soul.

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Nellie "Tiger" Travis - "If I Back It Up"

Heard this 2005 throwback song this afternoon - I love it and I love Nellie "Tiger" Travis!!

If I back it up, what you gonna do??
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Chris Ardoin - "Til the Sunrise"

I like the southern soul feel of this song.  It's the story of a man who, like so many of us, is ready to hit the club after working hard all week.  In the chorus, Chris says "I'm gonna party till the sunrise, tonight I'm not going to close my eyes, I'm gonna party till the sunrise, baby girl that ain't no lie."

Here's a copy of part of Chris Ardoin's bio that was published a few years ago on www.allmusic.com:

A third generation product of the southwestern Louisiana region's most famed musical dynasty, nouveau zydeco accordionist Chris Ardoin followed in the traditions established by his father, French Zydeco Band frontman Lawrence "Black" Ardoin; his grandfather, Cajun "la la" legend Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin; and his distant cousin, Creole virtuoso Amadé Ardoin. Born in 1981, Chris made his public debut at the age of four, playing with his father at a Texas gumbo cook-off; just five years later, he backed his grandfather during an appearance at Carnegie Hall. The child prodigy also soon joined his father's new band Lagniappe as a full-time member, but like Lawrence before him, Ardoin eventually rejected the confines of traditional zydeco to pursue his own muse; with his older brother Sean, cousin Alphonse and family friend Peter Jacobs, he formed the band Double Clutchin', the name representative of the kind of repeated bass drum kicks which define the funky "new zydeco" sound.

Chris Ardoin - a talented man!!
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Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown on WDLT March 17, 2018

It's Saturday night and time for Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown!  The Countdown highlights the top 10 most requested southern soul music hits of this week from WDLT 104.1 FM, the greatest station in the Mobile, Alabama, area. They have an awesome "All Blues Saturday" show and their on-air personalities - Nikki deMarks, Stormy, and Cathe B - are amazing! The Countdown comes on at 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 EST) each Saturday night.

To listen to the station if you're in the Mobile area, turn your radio to 104.1 FM and if you're online, go to www.1041wdlt.com. You can also listen via iHeart Radio on your phone/tablet and, if you have an Echo, do like I do and simply tell Alexa to play 104.1 WDLT!

This week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't Know - Wendell B

  3.  Inbox - J-Fitz

  4.  Chocolate Drop - Coldrank

  5.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  6.  Superwoman - David J/Geno

  7.  A-T-Ti-tude - Wilson Meadows

  8.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  9.  Work It - Tara Keith
10.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy

Cathe's Classic Pick of the Week was "I Forgot To Remember" by the awesome, late, great Denise LaSalle!!

And congratulations again to Ronnie Bell for another week at the #1 spot with "I'll Pay The Shipping Cost!!" Do you know that it's been #1 since August 19, 2017?????

I love southern soul music! Thank you Cathe B for a wonderful countdown and WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!! I love southern soul music! Thank you WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!!

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Tara Keith - "Work It"

I love this great dance song.  It has gotten stuck in my head and I end up singing it at all kinds of random times. lol "Work It" is popular in the Mobile area and I understand why.  Girl, work that thang!

I found the following bio info on Tara Keith from this website (she's beautiful, talented, and smart!!):  https://www.gigsalad.com/tara_queen_of_the_south_mobile

Tara Keith is a female vocalist, who resides in Mobile, Alabama. She became interested in the entertainment industry at a very early age. Tara has made cameo appearances on local television commercials and sitcoms. She had the opportunity to play a major role in various stage productions and she has opened for other well known artists such as Lenny Williams, Confunkshun, and Stony Murphy to name a few. Tara's musical inspirations include Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Lauren Hill, Sade, Tony Braxton, Anita Baker, Lalah Hathaway and many more.

Tara holds a B.S. Degree in the Management of Human Resources and she is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Howard University. She is employed as a Talent Acquisition Manager with one of the top Fortune 500 companies in the United States.

Although Tara enjoys entertaining and empowering people on an executive level, she is very passionate about giving back to her community, she has served on several volunteer committees since the year of 2000.

Tara has released her first solo single on Boss Big Entertainment LLC. Tara's Musiq is infused with contemporary R&B, Classic Soul, and Neo- Soul. 
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LJ Echols - "How Low Can You Go"

In spite of the almost x-rated video, I really like this LJ Echols song. "How Low Can You Go" has a great melody and wonderful beat - a very nice party/club song.

Baby, how low low can you go, let me see you drop it down to the floor...

Grown folks music!
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William Bell - "Everybody Loves A Winner"

Everybody loves a winner but when you lose, you lose alone.  William Bell tells us that everyone loves you when you're on the top but when things go bad, you're left alone. I hear this oldie (released in 1967) every week on Montgomery's WKXN and I love it. 
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Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown Partial List!

It's Saturday night and time for Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown!  The Countdown highlights the top 10 most requested southern soul music hits of this week from WDLT 104.1 FM, the greatest station in the Mobile, Alabama, area. They have an awesome "All Blues Saturday" show and their on-air personalities - Nikki deMarks, Stormy, and Cathe B - are amazing! The Countdown comes on at 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 EST) each Saturday night.

To listen to the station if you're in the Mobile area, turn your radio to 104.1 FM and if you're online, go to www.1041wdlt.com. You can also listen via iHeart Radio on your phone/tablet and, if you have an Echo, simply tell Alexa to play 104.1 WDLT!

I apologize for the countdown this week.  The show started at 7:30 and I only caught songs #7 - #10.  Will catch back up next week!! Here's the partial countdown list:  

  7.  A-T-TI-Tude - Wilson Meadows

  8.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton

  9.  Work It - Tara Keith
10.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy

Last week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't Know - Wendell B

  3.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  4.  Inbox - J. Fitz

  5.  Chocolate Drop - Cold Drank

  6.  Superwoman - David J/Geno

  7.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy

  8.  Work It - Tara Keith

  9.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton
10.  A-T-TI-Tude - Wilson Meadows

Many thanks to WDLT for celebrating the birthday of my hometown's great, great artist, the legendary Frank Mendenhall.  He was born on March 14 in Camden, Alabama, and here are two of my many favorite songs of his: "Party With Me Tonight" and "Gone On Away From Here."

I love southern soul music! Thank you WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!!

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Willie Clayton - "Sidepiece On The Side"

I'm so glad to hear something new from the legendary Willie Clayton. In this world of infidelity and pieces on the side, Willie talks about something that probably has many people wondering what went wrong in their three-way relationship.  Here, we have a man who leaves his wife to be with his girlfriend and then the girlfriend leaves him. Karma, maybe??  And then there's the major question - why are you so upset with me when you knew I was just a sidepiece?

What do you do when you leave home for the sidepiece 
And your sidepiece leaves you

I thought that things would be better after I left my home
But when the sidepiece found something she liked better
She left me alone

She said you were cheating on me with somebody else

And your women, too

Now I'm going to give you a little taste of your medicine

That you gave to me

Why are you so upset with me

When you knew I was just a sidepiece

Chorus

Now I was your sidepiece and we both tried to hide

The times you left me alone she said I got me a piece on the side

That's what the woman did

Now you're a good man and any woman can see

But I got me a sidepiece and he's waiting on me

That's what she told me

Why are you so upset with me when you knew I was just a sidepiece

Chorus

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Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown on WDLT March 3, 2018

It's Saturday night and the first weekend in March!!  This year is moving!  It's also  time for Cathe's All Blues Saturday Countdown and here are the top 10 most requested southern soul music hits of this week from WDLT 104.1 FM, the greatest station in the Mobile, Alabama, area. They have an awesome "All Blues Saturday" show and their on-air personalities - Nikki deMarks, Stormy, and Cathe B - are amazing! The Countdown comes on at 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 EST) each Saturday night.

To listen to the station if you're in the Mobile area, turn your radio to 104.1 FM and if you're online, go to www.1041wdlt.com. You can also listen via iHeart Radio on your phone/tablet and, if you have an Echo, simply tell Alexa to play 104.1 WDLT!

This week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't Know - Wendell B

  3.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  4.  Inbox - J. Fitz

  5.  Chocolate Drop - Cold Drank

  6.  Superwoman - David J/Geno

  7.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy

  8.  Work It - Tara Keith

  9.  Sidepiece On The Side - Willie Clayton
10.  A-T-TI-Tude - Wilson Meadows

Last week's top 10: 

  1.  I'll Pay The Shipping Cost - Ronnie Bell

  2.  If You Don't Know - Wendell B

  3.  Pretty Girl - J-Wonn featuring Tucka

  4.  Inbox - J. Fitz

  5.  Chocolate Drop - Cold Drank

  6.  Call Me - Nelson

  7.  I'm In Love By Myself - Peggy Scott-Adams

  8.  Superwoman- David J/Geno

  9.  Deadbeat Lover - Chris Ivy
10.  Work It - Tara Keith

There are two new songs to the countdown and they are by our long-time veterans, Wilson Meadows and Willie Clayton! So good to hear new music from these two living legends.

Cathe's Classic Pick of the Week was "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out" by the late, great Bobby Womack!!  Thanks to WDLT for celebrating his March 4 birthday and spotlighting him all day today on their Saturday show!

And congratulations again to Ronnie Bell for another week at the #1 spot with "I'll Pay The Shipping Cost!!" He's on a roll!!!

I love southern soul music! Thank you Cathe B for a wonderful countdown and WDLT for a great All Blues Saturday!!

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