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Thread started 07/17/18 4:18pm

MickyDolenz

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The Manhattan Transfer ~ Cantaloop (Flip Out)

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #1 posted 07/20/18 12:56am

SoulAlive

I was in Atlanta a few weeks ago and they have an excellent jazz/quiet storm station that I love.This song was getting alot of airplay smile

anyway...carry on (lol)

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Reply #2 posted 07/21/18 8:42am

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So, a few things:

1) I enjoyed M.T. in my youth. "Ray's Rockhouse" and "Blee Blop Blues" were my jams. Vocalese was a favorite album.

2) I don't listen to them as much these days, but I appreciate their artistry. It's not easy to maintain that kind of harmony and consistency for decades.

3) This cover is cute, but it's not as great as the original. I do think it's interesting when a singing group takes a hip-hop/rap/talky type song and actually puts a melody to it and sings it. The Gourds did that with "Gin and Juice". Other groups have done the same. At some point though, it seems rather monotonous with M.T.'s cover. The small lyric changes seem to cheapen it even more.

4) I'll stick to US3's version.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #3 posted 08/16/18 11:58am

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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