play to it. There was no written melody. Growing up, the music they listened to was doo-wop. And from that background, they intrinsically understood harmony. So they would already have the chord changes and background vocals laid out. I just played what I felt off the top of my head against that." Humphrey sings vocals on "Just a Love Child" and the album's last track, "Baby's Gone".

Satin Doll, recorded in 1974, continued her combination of soul jazz and funk. The album was dedicated to Duke Ellington, who died shortly before the album was released, and its cover art features Humphrey's daughter, Ricci Lynn. Fancy Dancer marked Humphrey's third and final collaboration with the Mizell Brothers. It includes Latin percussion and harp instrumentation by Dorothy Ashby. For her nextIn one of his former incarnations, as “The Body,” Jesse Ventura served as colorful commentator for the World Wrestling Federation, where he’d memorably badger head honcho Vince McMahon and declare, “I’m telling it like it is.”

He later tried to do the same in politics, with less success. His crusade against Democrats and Republicans was arguably noble but indisputably destined for failure; despite their obvious ineptitude, the two parties remain impervious against collapse.

Ventura and other politicos who hopelessly rail against that system  like us Pittsburgh Pirates fans who have endured the longest-running loser in the history of major professional sports  maintain their allegiances in spite of the poor quality, incompetence, fraud and audacity of those in power.

The sport of boxing has a similar problem, decades in the