Welcome to Frank Edwin's 2/27/2022 Salad🥗Bar 101 weekly inclusive feast where we invite you to Chow Down on a fresh variety of tasty musical artist cuisine. Romaine Calm - Turnip the Beet - Find Inner Peas.
The 101 has just a small sampling of the artists worldwide that have music we enjoy sharing. We literally can't keep up with the number of new songs released weekly and new to us artists we are discovering on a daily basis from a plethora of sources.
There are currently over 150 songs waiting to debut on the chart. To facilitate the opportunity of having more songs join the buffet we are delighted to give 6 songs each week the special designation of #1 Salad🥗Song.
#1 Salad🥗Song: Sean O'Reilly - Blue | Joni Mitchell Harp and Vocal Cover
Play Piano, Harp, a little guitar. Sing a song. Write a tune. ...these are all sentence fragments.
We discovered our New Haven based singing, harping, piano-ing Sean O'Reilly in the Gay Music Center group here on Facebook.
It is a joy to place a cherry tomato on top of his cover of the title track from Joni Mitchell’s classic “Blue” album giving it the special designation as a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 11th week on the chart. Sean shares, “Blue…was released...50 years ago... It remains (and always will) one of my favorite albums.”
Website:
seanoreillyband.com/YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/c/SeanOReillymusic/videos#1 Salad🥗Song: Peter Jöback - Better Man
"I wasn’t present in the moment
Always reaching for the highs
I wasn’t ready for the valleys
How they bring you down
I’d used up all of my excuses
I was selfish I was blind
I guess I didn’t have the reason
To be the better man"
Peter Jöback is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actor. He shares, “[Better Man] is inspired by a quote from Gandhi; you have to be the change you want to see in the world. It’s about responsibility, to choose to be the better man is to start doing what’s right instead of doing what is selfish. We have a chance to change the world. We’re at the crossroads and the responsibility is on all of us. This is what this song is about; that we all, men and women, can chose to be The Better Man.”
We congratulate him on his first #1 Salad🥗Song in honour of “Better Man” being given the designation of a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 16th week on the chart.
Official Website:
peterjoback.com#1 Salad🥗Song: Big Rooster Jeff - Lapras
Time waits for no Rooster!
Keyboardist Reuben/Ruby Jones has been one of our regular Salad🥗Song Chefs and for 10 weeks now we have been enjoying the culinary musical delights they bring with their brother Max Jones on guitar and vocals, and Patrick Spillane on drums and percussion as Big Rooster Jeff, the three-piece Prog-Pop trio from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
BRJs aim is to blend together the complexity and polyrhythms of prog and avant-garde rock with accessible pop melodies, production, and arrangement. We are happy to present them with their first Salad🥗Bowl as “Lapras” becomes a #1 Salad🥗Song.
Bandcamp:
bigrooster-jeff.bandcamp.com#1 Salad🥗Song: Anastasia Jane - All Because Of You
As a teenager coming of age and out to myself and others in the early 1980s and loving music I could only dream that there would be a day like today when there were so many different individuals expressing themselves through music in an open and honest way. We are grateful to have a diversity of talent with music, spoken word, and other forms of expression to share around the world through the Salad🥗Bar 101.
One of the things we enjoy is watching and hearing different artists growing musically and personally. Anastasia Jane, who describes herself as, "a proud transgender woman (she/ her) and supporter of the 2SLGBTQ+ community" is one of those artists and we have been enjoying “All Because Of You” for 12 weeks now. She shares, “the song celebrates one of my heroes, David Bowie, a pioneer of gender fluidity in popular culture.”
It is a joy to present Anastasia Jane with her 3rd Salad🥗Bowl as she reaches the pinnacle of the chart once more.
Website:
anastasiajane.com YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvyT43VEMqA292_xdP_TCw/videos#1 Salad🥗Song: Eric Bolton - Genesis (Let There Be Love)
In his 9th week on the chart we are delighted to give Canadian rock singer and songwriter Eric Bolton, frontman for the rock band, Shy Harry, his first Salad🥗Bowl in honour of his debut original solo song ‘Genesis (Let There Be Love)’ becoming a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 9th week on the chart.
Eric shared in an interview with Ai Love Music, "‘Genesis’ was/is my coming out song. A song of reaching a breaking point, knowing that there’s more to your life than what you’ve felt free to give. It’s a celebration of self, of love, and of new beginnings. It’s about beginning to build a world that is colourful. It is not just for me though, it could be about the colours of love and orientation, of skin or culture, of health and journeys, and so much more.
7 years ago, I came out to my family, at the same time I left the church. On May 24, 2020, I received a message from some of my family asking why I’m still not getting active in church when I’ll get my act together really, and reminding me that my life should be lived for God and the church and that people like me weren’t to have love or families but should take our orientation as a call to be celibate and just serve God more. I had been depressed for years with an inability to keep up with everything and putting myself down my whole life, very unsure what to do.
Then on May 25th, I replied to that message and for the first time ever stood up for myself. The wave of freshness inspired me to write this song that same day and I’ve been on a beautiful journey of rediscovering life ever since."
Follow Eric
Website:
ericbolton.ca/Instagram:
www.instagram.com/eric_bolton/Facebook:
www.facebook.com/eboltn/Twitter:
twitter.com/eboltn/Apple Music:
music.apple.com/us/artist/eric-bolton/1519705013YouTube:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuSW6sB74JSej24Jd_A4Ow#1 Salad🥗Song: Izzy Heltai - My Old Friends
“I’ve been thinking ’bout my constant need to change/Every month it seems I’m wearing different outfits/And my fashion sense reflects my mental state.”
Izzy Heltai can be a bit impulsive. “I hate in-between spaces and I hate limbo and I hate non-concrete things,” he admits on a phone call with Audiofemme. Of course, over the past year, we’ve all found ourselves in pandemic limbo, unable to make any kind of plan at all. And Heltai was right there too, as lockdown set in – after living and playing music in Western Massachusetts for years, his lease was up, and he wasn’t sure to do. Leaning on that impulsivity as a cure for his anxiety, he moved back to Boston to live with his mom, but quickly realized that the natural landscape and the freedom of Western Mass was vital to his creativity and mental health. He returned as soon as he was able, and at the start of this year, began the process of recording a series of one-off singles including “My Old Friends,” a song, which he says is essentially about “searching for a sense of home and physical space that feels good to you, where you feel comfortable.”
Heltai’s favorite line in the song is perhaps even more specific: “I’ve been thinking ’bout my constant need to change/Every month it seems I’m wearing different outfits/And my fashion sense reflects my mental state.” Most of us do this to some extent, but for Heltai, there’s more to it; it’s born out of “this constant unrest, but also my need to be the most authentic me in the moment and be present with that,” Heltai says. Though the practice is presented in the song almost flippantly, there’s no question that Heltai’s trans identity plays into it. “I think about that all the time; for so long, I was told by the world that I could not be authentic in such a big way. Once I realized I had the tools to do that I became obsessed with finding what felt the most present and good in the moment whenever I could.” Text by Lindsey Rhoades
It is a pleasure to present Izzy with his 2nd Salad🥗Bowl in honour of “My Old Friends” becoming a #1 Salad🥗Song in its 12th week on the chart.
Read the full article here:
www.audiofemme.com/premiere-izzy-heltai-my-old-friends-lyric-video/ Official Website:
www.izzyheltai.com 23 new or returning artistes contribute their chefs-d'œuvre to the smorgasbord: The Future Perfect Project: Not What You Pictured, Guy Scheiman - Game On, mxmtoon - mona lisa, P.R2B - Rayons Gamma, Marv & Rindy Ross - That's No Way To Be, PEYTON: Hard Times, sassyhiya - Crayon Potato, Lorelei Roux · Ignite Me, LA REINE GARCON - Accepte-toi, Syd, Smino - Right Track, Marchi · Gennaio, and G.P. Ekpendu - When I'm Older.
The 101: Quarterflash - Valerie
I never suspected your intentions
When you showed unusual affection
But when you kissed my cheek
My world collapsed my knees went weak
That moment just made no sense
I lost my nerve and innocence
I turned and ran away
I'll never understand that day
Oh Valerie!
Oh! I never thought it would go this far
The 101 at the Salad🥗Bar is our new niche in time dedicated to the memory of Joshua Bluegreen-Cripps who loved everyone, celebrated everyone, and was always thinking of ways to bring people together with music.
The goal of the Salad🥗Bar is also to bring a diversity of people together with music and each week the BuffetMobile will take us to The 101 where a song that has special meaning or memories for Salad🥗Bar curator Frank Edwin will be found.
Frank Edwin’s first exposure to same sex attraction in music was not in a song about two men. In 1981 a song called “Harden My Heart” by Quarterflash was all over Top 40 radio, but in Spokane, Washington, USA the local album rock station was playing their songs “Williams Avenue” and “Valerie.” Frank Edwin was a junior in high school at the time and did double takes every time he heard “Valerie.” He kept asking himself, “Would a band really record a song about an experience between two women and would radio stations actually play it?” Yes! and another resounding YeS!! The band even released it as a single.
Husband and wife Mav & Rindy Ross fronted Quarterflash and you will see them again on this week’s chart.
2 (6) Marco Mengoni - Cambia Un Uomo
3 (10) Yasmin Williams l Sunshowers
4 (11) Jake Blount - You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark
5 (12) ÖZLEM feat. Laura Borealis - Electric Ladyland
6 (8) Cassidy Haley - WHITE NOISE
7 (14) Oscar Zia - Nyårsvals
8 (13) Shimi Goodman - Feeling Good
9 (15) Joseph Reuben - Life In Colour
10 (17) Ryan Cassata - C'mon Sarah, It's Great To Be 8
11 (16) Yani Mo - Life U Choose
12 (18) BRANDEN & JAMES - Amazing Grace/Up to the Mountain
13 (24) Althea Talbot-Howard: Rievaulx: A Study in Memory - In Arch Form for Double Reed Quartet / Needleman, Rothman, Zdybel-Nam
14 (21) Ryan Lill - Ocean
15 (19) Jack O’Rourke - Sea Swimming
16 (20) Kaine Francesco|Turn to Grey
17 (22) Anastasia Jane - Clara
18 (23) A Great Big World - Glowing
19 (25) The Moon Shells: Come Over To The Table
20 (26) Venn Smyth - Come January Snow
21 (27) Paul Diello - What It Is To Love
22 (29) Cody Belew - Crimes
23 (28) Daisy the Great - Glitter
24 (31) Lilli Lewis - My American Heart
25 (30) Gabe Furtado - Flowers
26 (34) Shanti Lashae - When You Love Me
27 (32) Pierré André - La couleur de ma peau
28 (33) Honey Cellar - Celebration Song
29 (41) Dom Guyot - Time
30 (35) Kenna · Outliers
31 (36) Grace Petrie - Storm to Weather
32 (37) Joy Oladokun - Keeping The Light On
33 (38) Rufus Wainwright - Secret Sister (ACLU Gala Musical Performance)
34 (39) MasonRoseGray - Blink Of An Eye
35 (40) Gravity Noir - In Time
36 (44) Sting - If It’s Love
37 (42) Burçak x Ooostblok - Alkış
38 (48) Tret Fure - Peanut Butter Toast
39 (46) Namesake - Hole In The Wall
40 (47) JÓRMA - introvert
41 (50) Maël Isaac & Elise Pignard - Lay your head down (Keren Ann cover)
42 (58) Vasile Baghiuc - RYTMIKAALI
43 (52) Della Mae - Heart of My Home
44 (49) Bears in Trees - Heaven Sent is a Coffee Cup
45 (51) Kings Elliot - The Outsider
46 (53) smallpools - migraine
47 (59) Goro Gocher - Casa Limpia
48 (57) Frankmusik · Satellite
49 (54) Trixie Mattel - This Town feat. @shakey Graves
50 (60) Sad Daddy - Arkansas Bound
51 (56) Morgan Moats · Joyful
52 (62) Ashanwarrior - Manhatten Sidewalk
53 (63) Janis Ian - Better Times Will Come
54 (61) TeawhYB & Jack Greenwood - Down Bad
55 (65) Ben Hazlewood - Undertow
56 (68) Allan Vermeer - Poupée de cire, poupée de son (France Gall cover)
57 (70) Freddy Freeman feat. Stēvi M, Jay Freeman & Adam B. Shapiro · Keep Your Heart Open
58 (66) MEUTE - Intentional Dweeb // Live at Elbphilharmonie Sessions
59 (70) Lily Rose - Every Last One
60 (72) Gray Pop - La Herida
61 (71) Oliver Fenelon Chee - If You Want
62 (78) Hayden Joseph - Fallin’
63 (73) Beni Fahr - When I Was A Kid
64 (80) Sinclair - Won't Be Alone
65 (81) Fancy Hagood & Devon Gilfillian - Let Me Be
66 (76) The Overtones - A Night To Remember
67 🥗 The Future Perfect Project: Not What You Pictured
68 (85) Minute Taker feat. Bright Light Bright Light · After The Rain
69 (79) Love is Love - LGBTIQ* twins sing along
70 🥗 Guy Scheiman - Game On
71 🥗 mxmtoon - mona lisa
72 (84) Anita Gabrielle · The World Shivers (When Love Is Gone)
73 (83) Mothé - Breathe The Air On The Moon
🌈 74 Alexandra Hamer - The Love of Tired Swans (Dimash cover)
75 (88) Jeffery Straker - Rock, Paper, Scissors
76 🥗 P.R2B - Rayons Gamma
77 🥗 Marv & Rindy Ross - That's No Way To Be
78 (89) Johnny Schaefer - While You Are Right in Front of Me
79 (91) Pictoria Vark - Wyoming
80 🥗 PEYTON: Hard Times
81 🥗 sassyhiya - Crayon Potato
🌈 82 Tat Breezie - Born N Da Trap
83 🥗 Lorelei Roux · Ignite Me
84 🥗 LA REINE GARCON - Accepte-toi
85 🥗 Syd, Smino - Right Track
🌈 86 Apolo - Mi Príncipe
🌈 87 Dillbilly - Fray
88 (67) Ryan Amador & Alixa Garcia · False Alarm
89 🥗 Marchi · Gennaio
🌈 90 Keanan – Obstacle
91 🥗 G.P. Ekpendu - When I'm Older
🌈 92 Rubik's Cubed | A Poem By Gray Crosbie
🌈 93 R3id · What else might this awakening world contain?
94 (43) Hootgun - Out From Da Boredom
95 (55) Afro Sensei - Elephant
96 (64) Juani Cardillo ft. Max Tejera - Experimento
97 (74) Janet Devlin - Otherside
98 (75) Henry Fricker - Eye On The Light
🌈 99 Adam LeBlanc - Smile
100 (77) QUT Vox Pop - "Vogue" (Madonna A Cappella Cover)
🥗 = New Salad Song
🌈 = Previous #1 Salad🥗Song
Current Salad🥗Bar 101 YouTube Playlist:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbC5ZHK6WIiXxDg85Gbg7DeInnuCmOkQThe Salad Bar Facebook page is where we highlight individual chart artists and songs and feature a Plethora of other goodies throughout the week including artist flashbacks in the BuffetMobile, live song and concert video links, behind the scenes videos, interviews, themed playlist links, and a whole lot more:
www.facebook.com/SaladBarTop100/?view_public_for=108421744405514Here’s where all the Salad🥗Bar 101 charts live along with other themed playlists:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCoWZG2er38KS4_ktBpF3org/playlists?view_as=subscriberCompanion Salad🥗Bar 101 Spotify & Tidal Playlists:
tidal.com/browse/playlist/3dce66f5-9fea-4288-a45a-31f9c56badf1
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