"Now is the time for you to be somebody...be anything you want to be...this is your chance to become someone...here comes your opportunity!"
Off their Lookin' For Love LP, this track cracked the US Dance Top-40 when it charted at #39 on release. (I prefer the 6:51 Club Mix to the 5:28 Radio Mix featured here, which is the only mix available on YouTube). The band broke up when leader "Fat" Larry James died from a heart attack on December 5, 1987, way too young at the age of 38.
FLB are the bomb, pure and simple. The first time DJ Old-Time Granny and I tag-teamed together, we were both suspended in time while soaking up the vibes from their amazing cover of Fascination, co-written by Luther Vandross and David Bowie, off their debut Feel It LP (incorrectly noted on Wikipedia as released in '77 on Stax, it actually dropped on WMOT Records in '76). And who could forget Act Like You Know, especially since it was resurrected for a whole new generation of funk addicts after being included in GTA: Vice City.
So imagine my surprise when I stumbled onto this wack YouTube clip, featuring two ignorant British shock jocks named Mark and Lard dissing Fat Larry's Band! Goofing like their name alone qualifies them as the silliest band ever, and riffing on the absurd, racist notion that their mega-smash, heartfelt and beautiful ballad Zoom, which hit #2 on the UK charts in '82, was somehow a wack tune. Totally back-ass-wards and uncalled for, but not surprising from a couple of melanin-challenged boneheads who have managed to prove once again that some people just can't fake the funk.
- Dyn-O-Mite
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