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Still working through my recent stack from the Carrboro PTA. I knew this Raydio record (A Woman Needs Love, from 1981) was going to yield some previously unknown eargasms, and it didn't disappoint. Still In the Groove reminds me of this other Raydio track from '78 that I only have on 45 – Get Down.
Turns out that was the b-side to Jack and Jill, which was their first big hit, landing at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts (#11 in the UK) and going gold. Jack and Jill is a classic slice of soul, no doubt, but I'll bet just as many peeps were digging Get Down on the flip, and that propelled the single's chart success.
As featured in the Mel Brooks flick Spaceballs, this joint came to me as the title track of a Pointer Sisters LP I picked up at the Carrboro PTA last weekend for $.20, and I would have thrown it back had I noticed it was from 1986. Becuz in my yet-to-be-educated mind, that was past the Pointer Sisters' prime. Now I'm psyched it ended up in my pile.
On a side note, if the foxy lady who raises hens in Graham and was shopping for a used drum kit ever reads this, e-mail me! Bona fide missed connection after our conversation got interrupted by a very inopportunely-timed incoming phone call that I should have let go to voicemail.
The whole side B of this record is pretty good (other standouts being Sexual Power and Eyes Don't Lie), as opposed to Side A, which flat out sucks. How did that happen?
Although not the original LP versions, the YouTube remixes featured (and linked to) here are all true to the originals' spirit. They come courtesy of a dude from the UK who loves the Pointer Sisters, and the high-quality videos he's put together to go with these great remixes prove it.
From Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk, disc #3 (sides E & F) of a three-record set, a random record that popped up at the Carrboro PTA on Saturday. Looking suspiciously like a vinyl artifact that was retailed long ago at a spot called the Lost City, similar to yesterday's JOTD, but unlike the Jellybean Records joint sold new in '99, this record was already used when it passed through our hands and may have been originally bargain-priced at two bones.
I don't care if it's now 15 years later from when the track dropped, or twelve+ years since we sold it to some vinyl junkie. Why anyone would have given up this record at any point, for any reason, it's beyond me, because all four cuts are dope. This one's my favorite. Disco house in the house, with a strong sample of the Young & Company classic I Like What You're Doing To Me.
Yesterday, I was unexpectedly in Carrboro during the middle of the afternoon. So I swung by the PTA on Jones Ferry for the first time in literally, several years. Back when Shaun & Leslie lived on Carr Street circa the late 90s, one of them would truck over to the spot every day like clockwork, leaving slim pickings for the rest of the unhappy crate diggers around here. Of course, they only could choose from what was left over after another infamous cat who WORKED there (who I ran into just last month when he started honking at me in the Rams Plaza parking lot) got through choosing what 12" treasures he wanted to add to his huge personal collection. So eventually, I was like, f- it, I'm never gonna find anything worthwhile under those circumstances, and quit going.
But clearly times have changed, because there was a giant wall of vinyl to dig through, and I amassed a fat stack of goodies at the extended holiday sale rate of twenny cents per. I hope they extend that sale a little longer, because that much vinyl in one place is likely to spontaneously combust at some point, maybe. A freaking dusty groove fire hazard.
The thing that initially caught my eye about (Mucho Mambo) Sway by Shaft was that it looked really familiar, like I'd seen it before. And sure enough, it turned out to be a record that we sold new at the Lost City for $10-$12 when it was first released on Jellybean Recordings in 1999. Right after we'd moved to 402 West Rosemary Street, the second and final Lost City location. I could tell by the remnants of our original price tag. So that was kinda cool, to be buying it back twelve years later for $.20 at the Carrboro PTA.
Then I listened to it, and got into the latin house groove. The 6:16 Extended Mix is the real deal, but good luck finding it YouTube amidst the hundreds of different videos out there that name-check this track. Probably a result of the Pussycat Dolls having covered it. The remix featured here (supposedly from 2009) sounds as close as I could find. But the promo video from the original '99 release is funny, especially when the mambo crew evicts the lame DJ from his booth and takes over the dancefloor. Actually, there was also a super-funny alternate video shot that had me mad laffing when I saw it, featuring a guy with a tail.
