The Chair

MCA Nashville, under Universal. The courtship is the whole plot, and it lands.

MCA released it. Universal holds MCA Nashville. The joke is gentle: he is talking to a woman about a man who once talked to a woman in that chair, and the man was him, and she is the woman. A courtship that knows where it went.

Play it when the house has forgotten that a marriage had a first sentence.

The eight

Industry
7/10
A story told in one conversation. Nothing spills.
Household
8/10
He sees the ring. He does not pretend he missed it. Then the story becomes his own.
Piety
4/10
Manners, which are a kind of reverence for a person.
Courage
5/10
He risks the asking.
Republic
4/10
A bar that turns into a marriage. The town is in the last line.
Temperance
7/10
One drink. No spree.
Truth
7/10
The last line tells you the whole song was a memory.
Stewardship
8/10
A picture of how a particular love starts. Worth keeping.

Live historicallyTell the first sentence of this household, to the person who was there.

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Motown · Universal Music Group

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Motown, under Universal. The promise is arrival. They do not say it will be easy.

Tamla and Motown put it out. Universal holds Motown. The record is a duet that will not let the other singer be alone in the vow. That is rarer than the hook suggests.

Use it as a promise you intend to keep this week, not as a feeling.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Two singers locked in time. That is craft.
Household
7/10
A person, coming. The distance is not a metaphor only.
Piety
5/10
Devotion, said at full voice.
Courage
6/10
They name the obstacles and refuse them.
Republic
4/10
Two people. The promise is still witnessable.
Temperance
6/10
Big, and it stays on the promise.
Truth
7/10
No small print in the chorus.
Stewardship
7/10
A standard of showing up.

Live historicallyTell someone you are coming. Then come.