Billy Paul – 360 Degrees of Billy Paul
Well, I didn’t own this record until the exact moment I was getting ready to write up the next record, The Best of Philadelphia International Records. While listening to that, and listening specifically to...
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Parliament – Chocolate City
I’ve already written how late to the game I was on Funkadelic – it was too much for my teenage brain when it was current, and it took me many years to think of...
Roy Orbison – The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
Well, alphabetically, we moved from one very personally connected album to another with at least a little bit of a personal connection. I don’t think it’s this way anymore, not in an age when...
1.4.5. – Pink Invasion
This one took a while to write, because in my entire record collection, there isn’t a record with a more personal connection – because this is the only record I ever designed a cover...
Ohio Players – Angel
I’ve already written about how I couldn’t have brought any Ohio Players records home when I was in my teens (see “Fire”)– the graphic and frankly exploitive covers of sexualized women would not have...
Ohio Players – Honey
Well, if as a teenager I couldn’t have brought home the Ohio Players’ “Fire” because of its provocative cover, I sure as hell couldn’t have brought home “Honey.” In fact, I didn’t buy it...
Ohio Players – Fire
Ohio Players was probably my first real exposure to funk. In 1973, just as I was beginning to be music-crazy, they had an infectious hit single, “Funky Worm,” that was like nothing I had...
The O’Jays – The Best of The O’Jays
I was a teenager who absolutely worshipped AM Top 40 radio in the ’70s (which was the most diverse radio available where we lived), and to have been a Top 40 listener then was...
New Order – Blue Monday
This is just a 12″ single of another big song for New Order – which actually hit number 5 on the US dance charts, where nothing else they did previously ever made a mark....
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