Tell me what you want-softones and firstclass

[arr&bee]

Who remembers this little gem from two veryunderrated groups back in[1979]? Great disco beat.

[Methuselah2]

Arr&bee - That one got by me but I just listened to it on YouTube and liked it a lot. Thanks for pointing it out.

[[I think I missed it when it was released because I couldn't get enough of Jackie Moore's THIS TIME BABY at the time. And still can't!)

[roger]

Who remembers this little gem from two veryunderrated groups back in[1979]? Great disco beat.

Not me for certain arr&bee, but I couldn't resist looking it up on youtube to see if it was the same song that JIMMY RUFFIN had a hit with around 1974/5 ... guess what IT IS!! :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmIINtzDFs

Roger

[arr&bee]

Thanks roger[the knowlegde here is unsurpassed]i never knew that jimmy recorded it first.

[splanky]

That makes two of us, Jai, but then I remember the Softones did do other covers. I liked their
cover of The Ohio Players Silly Billy though I admit it comes nowhere near Junie Morrison's
symphonic original...That mofo had talent to burn...

[arr&bee]

Cool. The softones were a very good group in the tradition of the[chi-lites]only without the backing or songwriting.

[roger]

This is the JIMMY RUFFIN version ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xwH-jztsA
It was a #39 "Pop" hit in the U.K. at the end of 1974 and a #42 R&B hit in The U.S. when released on Chess a month or two later after attracting a lot of interest on the "Disco Scene" in NYC etc. :)

Roger

[arr&bee]

Thanks roger,very cool.