An endlessly upward world (Eclectic Playlist Series 4.08)

Rules are not necessarily "meant to be broken," as the odd saying goes; but, sometimes, a rule might be meaningfully circumvented. And so this month, I give you two songs from one artist as we open and close with Steely Dan, in honor of the recently departed Walter Becker. A hat tip along the way to obscure soul songs resuscitated by the internet, to the unhinged and brilliant "Twin Peaks" revival, and to a handful of well-known artists who wandered into the list this month with some lesser-known material. I should note that the Skip Drake song is as of yet unplaceable chronologically--it surely sounds like the '60s but nowhere can I find confirmation. What year is this, indeed?

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