Little Stevie Wonder - Castles In The Sand / Thank You. 1964 Tamla. From the RT collection (Dec). Admittedly outside of my interest area, but I did listen to both sides. Pleasant RnB / Soul I suppose. Little Stevie could certainly sing, that's for sure. And he was only 14 at this point.
*Parliament - Mothership Connection. 1975 Casablanca (LP). Thrift shop find (Dec). So... what would be the opposite of Fleetwood Mac? Rhetorical question. Whatever traces of seriousness George Clinton had left for Funkadelic are now completely wiped out on the resuscitated Parliament project (once a doo-wop group going back to the 1950s called The Parliaments, when Clinton was still a young teen). This album has one purpose - to Par-Tay. It's funked up, prosifunkstication, and thumpasorus. P-Funk is its own genre for a reason. It's pure funk too, so no psychedelic guitar frenzies or progressive rock charting to get in the way of the dance floor. And a heck of a lot of fun.
Prince - Controversy. 1981 Warner Bros. (LP) Thrift shop find (Dec). I always think I'm going to like Prince more than I do. After all he's an accomplished guitarist with an interest in funk and psychedelic. But the music - at least of what I've heard - tends more towards soul and disco. This is a good album, very much what I would associate Prince with. And the subject matter could use a bath I think?
Dick Jensen. 1973 Philadelphia International (LP). From Independent (Nov). This album made me laugh. Philly Soul meets.... Hawaii. Don Ho leads MFSB. Worth 50 cents to hear on my stereo at least once.
* - Keeping for the collection
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