[Video: “official” video, I suppose, from the Three Degrees’ own YouTube channel. I also found a video on the ’Tube of their singing the song “live,” maybe, in what appears to be a theater-in-the-round setting. The backup singers have very little to do in this video, except — in time with the lead singer — swivel on their stools.]

Every morning, I receive an automated email message (set it up using this tool) which consists entirely of a link to a random Wikipedia article. I’m never surprised, nor upset, when the target article turns out to describe some minutely tiny corner of the known world. (“Paraguayan field hockey players, 1983 season” or “a small village in northwestern China” — that sort of thing.) But I’m often delighted when the links in such an article lead me down one unexpectedly fascinating rabbit hole or another.

I don’t remember what specific article I got sent to this past Saturday morning. But after following one link, then another, and so on, suddenly I found myself thrown back in time almost 50 years…

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