Thanx a million to all the grown folks who contributed. Y'all got this thread jumpin!

Imma get me another drank and a chicken wang...

With dominoes in my hand and a glass of congac by my side,I can see Ernie Barnes' "Sugar Shack", the dogs shooting pool/playin poker and the black velvet painting of the soul sista with the afro hangin on the wall

That's The Way I Feel About'Cha







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diamondpearl1 said:

LOL! I think we all had that painting you mentioned...then a few years later it was the one with the black light and the 12 zodiac positons!

Good vids, we couldn't have this conversation without Bobby Womack and Got To Give It Up was the standard at every house party,

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I always loved this song. Whatever happend to Johnny Bristol? Was he a one hit wonder?

babynoz said:

Johnny was a succesful songwriter and producer for Motown before going solo. He released six albums; Hang On In There Baby, Feeling The Magic, Bristol's Creme, Strangers, Free To Be Me and Life & Love (retitled Come To Me, when it was released in the US). His two biggest hits were 'Hang On In There Baby' (R&B #2)
and 'Do It To My Mind' (R&B #5).
He passed away in March 2004 at the age of 65.
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babynoz said:

I always loved this song. Whatever happend to Johnny Bristol? Was he a one hit wonder?[/quote]

Bristol passed away some years ago. and no He was a producer and writer for Motown and wrote "someday we'll be together"

^^thanks to both of you for the info. I did not know Mr. Bristol had passed away.

I stopped gettin sent outside or upstairs when I turned 13 lol From then till age 20 I was a gopher 4 smokes, liquor, lighters, wine and beer









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What the hell is knotty head and souse?

scriptgirl said:

Knotty head is what some peoples call Seagrams 7 Gin aka "Nappy Head" "Bumpy Face" 4 it's ridges on the bottle, and souse is another tag 4 that funky stuff in every shot glass,plastic and strofoam cup at every house party in the ghetto lol

I thought you meant hoghead souse....

vainandy said:

It's funny 'cause in Philly where I was born that's what souse/head cheese looked like, but here in S. Fla. they make it in a big pot like soup and eat it in a bowl or cup.

Time for more music...

diamondpearl1 said:

I know, right? It was like a rite of passage, I'm dating myself terribly but smokes were 50 cents at the corner store back then and had no warning labels.

babynoz said:

he he You're not dated. Ya know growin up everybody around me was always 10, 20 or even 30 years older than me lol, but the beautiful thing was that I never felt like a crumbcrusher/breadsnatcher around them. They all took me in and gave me the best of them. Did your peoples turn u into a DJ too? When my granny would drink Thunderbird or Boones Farm on weekends, she'd always play or ask me 2 play these next 3.....






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diamondpearl1 said:

LOL! Chile, when my godmother would get her head "mellow" with some Chivas we had to play the same song for her, over and over...



mind you, there was no remote control or repeat button back then...we actually had to get up and put the needle back on the record,

She would say "play me that number", then she would talk to us girls about life till bedtime. Lawd, how I miss those talks.

babynoz said:

Your godmother and my grandma must've came from the same era,'cause "gettin mellow" or "in my cups" is what she'd say when she was drinkin. I know all about them electric arms,needles and levers that switched from 33"/45". Shit, we went from that 2 rewind, stop, play, fast forward, pause,90 min tapes and puttin tissues in the top of old cassettes so's we could hold down play/record when we made our "mixes" lol

Oh and don't let mama ask me 2 play Ella Fitzgerald, Sara Vaughn, or Bille Holliday lol'cause everytime she did, her eyes would close, she'd smile and start talikn about her childhood in New York back in the era of The Savoy, Birdland and Smalls Paradise.....This one always makes me thnk about her.....


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