Party Jive You Can Live In

Black music’s gettin’ good again. Never was completely bad, but’s fallen a long way from the pinnacles of 65-8 when Motown and Stax were truly cooking and, f'rinstance, Stevie Wonder was serving up heartthrobbers like “I Was Made to Love Her” steada (still fine, but) earnest mellowtoned channels such as “He’s Misstra Know-It-All.”