For Play Something Sweet, Coolidge has chosen a very winning mix of mostly popular tunes. We've got songs for which she is noted - "Higher and Higher," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," mated with two tracks each from Sam Cooke ("Sooth Me" and "Nothing Can Change This Love"), and Allen Toussaint ( "Shoo Rah Shoo Rah" and "Play Something Sweet"), as well as songs like "I Can't Stand the Rain" and "Take Me to the River" made famous by Al Green.
—Ulf Kjell Gür