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Friday, November 10, 2006
COME BACK TO ME
Cheyenne
Cheyenne's Comin
Shadybrook : 1976
Out of Print
PINBALL NUMBER COUNT
 Video
Pointer Sisters remixed by DJ Food
Solid Steel presents Sesame Street
Ninja Tune : 2003
Out of print
[Buy it]
MORE BOUNCE TO THE OUNCE
Zapp & Roger
1980
Available on All the Greatest Hits
[Buy it]
SO RUFF, SO TUFF
Roger
The Many Facets of Roger
1981
Out of Print
[Buy it]
I haven't posted anything for a while. You can blame Justin Timberlake for that. No one does does early 80s Prince these days like JT. Or perhaps no one does mid-nineties Beck doing early-80s Prince like JT. JTs indeed bringing sexy back and he's bringing back from places like these:
Cheyenne Fowler was a bright flash-in-the-pan Native American soulstress. I can't tell you anything more than that, though a google search reveals she recorded some vocals for a Lalo Schifrin score.
The Pinball Number Count will make many people of a certain age very happy.
Just about everyone I know remembers this regular animated feature from Seseame Street. The old Sesame Street, back when 50% of your parents tax dollars were diverted to a vast commune of stoned public education animators. That's the Pointer Sisters on vocals, and in this limited edition cut from DJ Food/Strictly Kev, segments from all the various numbers videos are stictched together to create a dazzling full-length jam.
Roger Troutman of Zapp was a funkapotamus who loved the talk-box. He loved it more than Peter Frampton loved it. He even conducted media interviews with his talk-box sometimes. Zapp was made up of many Troutman brothers. One of them, Larry, shot Roger to death a few years ago and then killed himself. I'm not trying to be a smart ass but I think it would have been cool if at the funeral he was eulogized through a talk-box. Bits of these Bootsy Collins produced songs appear in a ton of HipHop songs. So Tuff, So Tuff will ring a Beastie Boys bell, and forms the backbone of 2Pac's California Love (peep the beyond black Thunderdome video.)Labels: James
posted by James
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