See That Prince Over There? The One With The Fuzzy Hair?
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Ok, I just realized that in the last post, I complained about coming up with ideas for post. That was just my 17th post. I can’t bitch about topics already. I haven’t even reached 3 moth mark yet; I’m still on probation. So I’m going to concentrate on giving you, yes YOU, the music you want and deserve.
Today I was chilling’ with in the TV/Game/Music room with Kali and Ra, just going through something to spin and I came across Ray Bryant‘s Up Above the Rock, which was a really good find about a month ago. It’s prized because of the title song, which is in the same vein as Ike Turner and The Rhythm Kings‘ Getting Nasty. There’s a little church-funk going on in it. Bryant’s piano, like Nasty‘s Billy Preston, is the main attraction. But the driving force is the drumming of Grady Tate. You might remember him bangin’ out beats for Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Ray Charles and other such luminaries. Old folks may know him as being the drummer on The Tonight Show (Johnny Carson, not the pretenders.). or you know him and not know it from Schoolhouse Rock Fireworks, Naughty Number Nine, or my favorite: I Got Six.
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That brutha don’t wash no dishes! Tate played and sang on the Schoolhouse Rock shorts.
So I present to you Up Above the Rock, and I Say a Little Prayer. And, because i can never hear I Say a Little Prayer without thinking of her, I give you the definitive version of it by Dionne Warwick. She’ll get her own post a little later on.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Up Above the Rock- Ray Bryant
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I Say a Little Prayer- Ray Bryant
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I Say
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