Rose Royce Find Success The Norman Whitfield Way
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 8 October 1977
"IT'S KJLH, the station of Kindness, Joy, Love and Happiness," the deejay smoulders on the car radio, and goshdarn if you couldn't almost believe all that drivel with the sun smiling on the heather-coloured hills that ring the freeway round, the palm trees standing stately on either side, and the awareness of the bluest swathe of sea just a change of oil away.
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