Doggy Style

Erma Franklin sang a memorable “Piece of My Heart” at “The Soup Kitchen” in l992 and then there was Janis Joplin’s iconic rendition and Faith Hill did her version. Didn’t I make you feel Like you were the only man? But there's a history of sensibility. In the 12^th century passion was reserved for god, who was “the only man” and the equivalent of Joplin or Franklin was a chorus of eunuchs intoning a Gregorian Chant. “Piece of My Heart” to a current generation of 20 somethings might be as stiff and uncool as Frank Sinatra to 60s  suburban white kids who found their liberation from bourgeois values in soul which included the gospel of Mahalia Jackson and the Staples Singers. Which bring us to the timeless "Juicy"by Notorious B.I.G (1992) or better "Who am I (What’s My Name?)," (Snoop Doggy Dog). The video, when it comes to the subject of dogs, is a major threat to Bunuel and Dali’s Un Chien Andalou (1929). Time flies and it’s almost impossible to grasp that Sylvia Robinson the producer of "Rapper’s Delight" (1979) was the Sylvia of Mickey and Sylvia’s “Love is Strange” (1956), however profoundly universal the lyric might be—whether you’re talking of God or man.

Read "God Redux" by Francis Levy, HuffPost

and listen to Erma Franklin singing "Piece of My Heart" (1992)