Guess The Album From The Sleevenotes:
REDACTED – Good gracious alive! – It sure is!
REDACTED takes us on a trip that makes stops at all the musical ports of planet Earth’s hip circles.
Lyrics that say more than “my baby loves me” or “my baby don’t love me”, as the case may be. Arrangements that swing with melodic variations and the unexpected. REDACTED‘s performance in this setting contains all the warm feeling and exciting soul that we who live in REDACTED have known for some time.
New and different things must be a way for the very talented and energetic REDACTED – whether it’s writing and producing for other artists such as REDACTED‘s hit record of REDACTED that brought a new dance to the world a few seasons ago, or the time he spent as a REDACTED disc jockey. When REDACTED was on the radio, you knew who it was. He was an “entertainer” who refused to restrict himself to time and temperature one-liners. He was a gas! REDACTED would light up the sky of REDACTED radio nightly, to the delight of the regular listeners as well as his fellow DJs. But he put it down – got some members of REDACTED together and embarked on REDACTED.
You’re in on the beginning with their first Epic album.
Open your ears and dig it all!
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s Sly & Family Stone’s A Whole New Thing debut from 1967
It was the “Epic” records and the DJ clues that gave it away.
ruff-diamond says
Indeed it is – I just got the first 5 albums as part of Sony’s Original Album Classics series (a bargain at under $20). The sleeve notes are by John Hardy of Radio KDIA San Francisco-Oakland (still in existence but now a Christian talk radio station). Dance To The Music has sleeve notes by Sly himself, waxing lyrical about the Family Stone (“Jerry Martini is the best indication of Love and Peace any human being could conceive of. Jerry blows his life thru his saxophone. When you hear him play I’m sure you’ll say ‘he couldn’t be all bad, in fact he might be all good’…Larry {Graham} is as funky as nine cans of wet magic shave!”)
Johnny Concheroo says
I greatly admire your patience in typing it all out. I thought it was a hassle simply photographing the sleeve notes and then photo shopping the clues out.