Week six takes us from Bizzi to Bowie in the British Book of Hit Singles. No actual Bowie, instead feast your ears on nearly 14 minutes of completely irresistable funky Chicago house from Lil’ Louis. You’ll know the main vocal hook from a thousand other tracks, but this is the motherlode, the original. Where has it been in my life, lodged between Black Machine and Black Riot in the British Book of Hit Singles. The last 5 minutes are non-stop bass nirvana, courtesy of one Gene Perez. Unknown to me, he was the foundation of lots of Masters of Work remixes and it’s no disservice to say that this could be a sample from the thumb of Bernard Edwards himself.
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Banger numbet two: a slice of Native Tongues era easy hip-hop. Lovely.
Curio of the week: organ driven instrumental from Elvis’s early trio. From the wasteland/ bizzarre musical epoch between Elvis joining the army and the arrival of the Beatles.
Stinker of the week: abysmally mawkish slice of ersatz pop-country in the No Charge vein. The original was by Wayne Newton which tell us everything we need to know: