As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, August 8, 2014

#35 Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) -- Gladys Knight & The Pips (1973)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJmplWfWAPU

“One of the great break-up songs in soul music” was one comment I found for this one online, and it sums things up pretty well. This was the group’s last big hit before leaving Motown records, and it’s a high point both for the group and for songwriter Jim Weatherly, who’s also responsible for their post-Motown classics “Midnight Train To Georgia” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me”.
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