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Who Loves Ya Baby?

Craig McAllister

Aye, it may be Valentine’s day and Cupid may well have shot his arrow haphazardly in my direction, but there’s no room for slushy sentimental syrup here. Only the finest in 1970s funk (of course).

A track popped up on the iPod the other day and I was convinced I was listening to a rare outtake of The Temptations Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone. It had that same stop/start bass riff, sweeping cinematic strings and double-time handclaps, and it was only the absence of vocals that had me reaching for the ‘now playing’ menu to see what I was really listening to.

It was this, an obscure funk/soul track by Brinkley & Parker. Released in 1974, Don’t Get Fooled By The Pander Man could well be the theme for a long-forgotten down market cop show. Clipped wockawockawocka guitar, brass ‘n strings and a fantastic hi-hat and handclaps rhythm which kicks in around the 1 min 30 mark, Don’t Get Fooled By The Pander Man is the sound of beige leather jackets with over-sized floppy collars, 27″ bell bottoms and stacked cuban heels. With added car chases and Chinese food in cardboard boxes. As the man himself once said, Can You Dig It?

Ah, what the heck?!

I recently put up a rare version of Ball Of Confusion which is still available here. As another bonus, here‘s the full 11 minutes + version of Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone. Like that? You’ll like this – The Temptations Psychedelic Shack. A wee bit Sly, a wee bit Hendrix, a whole lotta groove.

Sometimes, the shortest posts are the best. I know you all just scroll through the crap that drips from my typing fingers til you find the mp3 links anyway. Bastards.

Anyway, thanks (as always) for visiting. I love ya, baby! Au revoir, a bientot!

Published by Craig McAllister

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5 thoughts on “Who Loves Ya Baby?”

  1. Don’t know if it’s passe/inappropriate to mention Hip-Hop samples on this wonderful site… But…

    Cripes. So Psychedelic Shack is where Public Enemy got the parts for Welcome To The Terrordome from… Wow.

    Have you ever heard The Four Tops do For Your Love btw?

  2. Psychedelic Shack made me wish I was born black. Seriously. Still to this day I have deep anima dreams where I’m Foxy Brown, hunting down The Man in my knit bodysuit with peekaboo cutouts and even though I’m dressed provocatively, no muthafucka’s gonna mess with me unless I wanna be messed with!. Got it? “Don’t Get Fooled By the Pander Man”… damned straight, baby!

    And no, I don’t just scroll through for the links. Well, okay, I do but I just don’t wancha to feel bad ’bout that, ‘kay? You’re too good for self pity!!!

  3. I didn’t even realize you put links in among all that crap! I nearly fell out my chair.

    Speaking of samples… Ghostface used parts of Pander Man recently.

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