Yeah baby, Sophisticated. I been watchin' you from afar little girl, you sure got the moves. Why don't you sit down right here, let me get you a cocktail. Hey bartender, make that two. So listen, have I seen you here before? Oh, this is your first time huh? Well you sure know how to groove honey, you sure know how to groove. Hey, is it me, or is it getting hot in here....?
Freeez - 'Southern Freeez' (1981)
D Train - 'You're The One For Me' (1981)
Marvin Gaye - 'Rockin' After Midnight' (1982)
Isley Brothers - 'Between The Sheets' (1983)
Isley Brothers - 'Between The Sheets' (1983)
[Serving suggestion - turn up bass, play loud; make love not war].
I can smell that giddy mix of 'Aramis' or 'kouros' After Shave* and dry ice.
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you mucky bugger.
ReplyDeletesouthern freeez is ace and was in the coming soon pile but now...
i'll have to wait to try these on the mrs - it's not the same when you sneeze in their drink. i blame that fog.
Ray, fire up the Quattro.
ReplyDeletePaco Rabanne was the after shave of choice for Soul Boys in the 80s, at least 'round London way.
ReplyDeleteUp north it was probably Dettol and Woodbines.
Well, now I'm all dewy...
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ReplyDeleteSilly sod!
ReplyDeleteAve a word wi thee sen.
Dettol doused Northerner.
Do you find it dries the skin though? Wright's Coal Tar Soap, thass wah tha' needs.
ReplyDeleteOh how I loved Southern Freeez.
ReplyDeleteIt was Paco Rabanne for me too and I'm a carrot cruncher, though I did buy my records in Disc Empire dahn the Kings Road back in them days.
D Train - there's another one. In fact these are all great.
ReplyDeleteLee is right. One of my 80’s girlfriends insisted I wore Paco Rabanne even though it set my asthma off. I met her on one of these nights... and they always seemed to finish with Fat Larry's Zoom.
ReplyDeletewe saw the singer off of that freeez on the identity parade on never mind the buzzcocks. they didn't pick her the dozey sods.
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ps - i hope that eeew was your pazza impression
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I'm thinking of doing a 'slowie" post and one of the records I had in mind was Fat Larry's "Zoom"
ReplyDeleteHave you got some incense oozin' all over your crib, then, lover man? I'll bet you have.
ReplyDeleteYep, the stuff brings me out in a nasty as well: crikey, what with Mick's asthma too we are a bunch. Bet Jason King never had these problems.
ReplyDeleteJust came across your blog (yes, it's "my first time here", be gentle with me...) - nice to see someone else loves Sugar as much as D-Train! I will be back.
ReplyDeleteI happened here while searching for the Charlie May mix of Elizabeth Fraser's 'Underwater' - which you posted in August:
http://theghostofelectricity.blogspot.com/2007/08/siren-song.html
Any chance of a repost? I heard it in a mix and it's been doing my head in for weeks.
cheers, Ben
Thanks Ben and welcome. Yep, I've uploaded the track again for you here. Not sure if it's the mix you heard, but it's bloomin' marvellous in any case...
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Davy! It's not the mix I heard, in fact I've tracked down a mix that sounds much like the one I heard.
ReplyDeleteFull mix here:
http://www.urban-gorilla.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=9&Itemid=44
'Underwater' excerpt here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fsc9xd90dvz
It's mixed by Charlie May who is half of Spooky and does lots of work with Sasha.
I have to say Charles J really nailed it for me. Such insight!
ReplyDeleteOh shit yeah, that dude knows his stuff (er, what is an 'additament'?).
ReplyDeleteWell obviously based on the Latin additamentum, from additus, p. p. of addere to add.
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