Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A

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  Seven Songs for the Week #158 - 15th Apr 2026

  Jason Carty

  Bert Sugarman‘s The Midnight special is slowly being released on YouTube, and we are deep in the throes of 1976 at present. The most recent release featured The Miracles kicking off with the more well-known track Love Machine. This sent me back to listen to it’s parent album where I found this song, a rather laid-back and progressive point of view for the 1970s, considering it was recorded six years after Stonewall. As it turned out, the Miracles also performed this song on the same episode and it’s well worth checking out, because of the extended chatter at the end where there’s a mass shrugging of shoulders about the notion of going to a gay bar and hanging out with a trans woman.