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.)

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

#25 What's So Good About Goodbye -- The Miracles (1962)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT0__VVRYOA

This one was a favorite of Weasel, back in the heyday of WHFS. It’s not one of Smokey Robinson’s better-known songs, but is certainly one of his best. (Fellow Miracle Marv Tarplin does the Duane Eddy-style guitar.) The bridge is classic Smokey:

“How can goodbye be good
To a lover who really cares
And another thing I would like to clarify
Is how can farewell be fair.”

 
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