What Was THAT? (Black History 1979)
Feb. 22nd, 2024 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotWe're doing Black Pop History Month '78-'81 at the People's Pop Polls, and here are three discoveries from '79, the latter two firmly in the category What Was THAT?
Paulette & Tanya Winley – Rhymin' & Rappin'
Tanya's the great discovery here, less grab-you-in-the-face than Roxanne Shanté, but she raps with the same insistent glue, our attention immediately glomming onto her. Her counting up the years at the end just presses and presses and presses, then the tape runs out.
Little Scotty – Going To A Disco To-Night
Sounds like a saloon in an old western movie right before the fight breaks out. Not sure what they gain from the last three minutes, though (they're sweeping up broken glass and the piano player keeps going).
Ayisha – Space Man
Lyrics have her observing from outer space, but it's more like she's down in the Mariana Trench gurgling her way upward.
[EDIT: Oops. Looks like I misattributed the year for "Space Man." It's 1978.]
Paulette & Tanya Winley – Rhymin' & Rappin'
Tanya's the great discovery here, less grab-you-in-the-face than Roxanne Shanté, but she raps with the same insistent glue, our attention immediately glomming onto her. Her counting up the years at the end just presses and presses and presses, then the tape runs out.
Little Scotty – Going To A Disco To-Night
Sounds like a saloon in an old western movie right before the fight breaks out. Not sure what they gain from the last three minutes, though (they're sweeping up broken glass and the piano player keeps going).
Ayisha – Space Man
Lyrics have her observing from outer space, but it's more like she's down in the Mariana Trench gurgling her way upward.
[EDIT: Oops. Looks like I misattributed the year for "Space Man." It's 1978.]
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