That’s an awesome clip. Not a bad track either. My science-nerd hip-hop loving woman will surely be slotting into her award-winning youtube VJ set, somewhere between Silver Convention and Iron Maiden.

Nabakov, I didn’t know that Rose Royce had another song besides Love Don’t Here Anymore

“I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more woman than you’ll ever get.”

Ouch, that’s got to hurt. Great line.

Of course, the best band of the 1970s (for my then demographic) were Abba.

Aw yeah. That’s what Ah’m talkin’ bout.

(h/t lgf)

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They were, however, cooler than Van Der Graaf Generator. I think.

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Do you run Soulseek Nabs?

Unlike lots of P2P networks, you seem to mostly run up against virus-free collections of well-named high-res files, and lots of folks with excellent collections.

Anyway, this is to play when me and the Lady Friend get married next summer:

And this… well… this used to be pop music:

Which was “Over And Over”, a riproaring melange of rock and r’n'b with a charging guitar riff, funky drumming and full throttle vocals by Ms Rose Norwalt.

Sadly it does not seem to be accessible anywhere online. Though I’d loved to be proved wrong.

And speaking of Rose Royce, I’ve heard at first hand from some on screen in the production in question, that both the song and script for “Carwash” were written pretty much simultaneously and that the song had more lines.

Which didn’t stop the film from being a freewheeling improvisational and observational slice of deadpan urban comedy drama that still holds up bloody well now. And with a funking great soundtrack. Which is more than you say in any way of the Get Smart remake or anything by Mike Meyers lately.

Really. Watch Carwash again. It does scrub up well.

“I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more woman than you’ll ever get.”

Umm…that above was a quote from Carwash and not my signature line, you dig?

Check the short but perfectly formed quitar solo played by a svelte afro amazon fron 1.57 onwards.

I defy anyone to provide a link to a sexier four and half minutes of a band live fronted by not one (1) but two (2) charismatic female performers. OK, at least Heart wrote 2 (two) hit singles compared to to Taste of Honey’s one (1). But Heart were Canadian and therefore had a sexiness bypass.

On the other hand, this does still hold up well as an actual song.

However the Wilson sisters are no Janice Johnson and Carlita Dorhan when it comes to playing live.

Arrgh! Takes me back to “The Golden Dragon” in Suva in the late seventies, it does me hearties.

Wizened old pop pros with one last teenage disco opera left in them.

And what people forget about 70s disco bands is that quite a few were real bands who’d worked up the Gamble ‘n’ Huff sound in their own right. And sometimes with cool foxy bassists playing and singing cool foxy songs.

Then there’s this.

The original title was “Fuck You” as written by Nile and Bernie in high dudgeon late one night after being turned away from some club because they weren’t famous or well-suited enough at the time. One of America’s greatest ever songwriting and arranging teams certainly got their revenge there. Not to mention one of the all time great smooth and funky bass solos when you’re not having a bass solo – between 1.55 and 2.30 in the above clip.

And here’s one of Rogers and Edward’s masterpieces, an eternal wedding reception party standard.

For all America’s faults, it consistently produces the world’s best party and social bonding music.

Did you check out the ‘Love to Love You Baby’ clip @ 16 – forgot to mention that the main dancer in that clip is where the character of ‘Bob Downe’ must have been part-modelled on – too funny. “I Feel Love” is a better song and the clip has Giorgio banging away…but super daggy 70′s TV show dancing is hard to go past.

And always loved this one:

love don’t live here anymore