Phil Perry/EW&F

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Phil Perry/EW&F

I've always been in awe of Phil's voice. I remember a buddy of mine visiting a Lee Ritenour gig, and seeing for the first time Phil performing there with the band.

He never saw Phil before and told that this big dude came onstage and blew the audience away lol. Lee recorded a track called "If I'm Dreamin (Don't Wake Me)" which has this

upliftng feel when the chorus comes in, and around the end there are some more ad-libs by Maurice White ! Too bad it's not on youtube yet :

Phil's career goes way back to the mid-late 70's, when he was part of a group called "The Montclairs". On youtube are a number of great tracks available.

Around the early 80's, Phil formed a duo-group with Perry Sanlin. They recorded an impressive arranged version of EW&F's "Can't Hide Love" :

Phil's coming in the song as 2nd singer. His volume is something else ... all over this song belting & blowing

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Reply #1 posted 08/09/10 5:46am

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Reply #2 posted 08/09/10 3:13pm

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I really like the Montclairs, I even own a copy of their album. I haven't really listened to Perry's post-Montclairs stuff though.

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Reply #3 posted 08/09/10 3:16pm

Timmy84	That is one GREAT "sanger". That brother has some POWER in that voice, man! I was blown away the first time I heard him, which was when he covered Ree-Ree's "Call Me". I loved his version.
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Reply #4 posted 08/10/10 4:50pm

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LoveIsTheMessage said:

I really like the Montclairs, I even own a copy of their album. I haven't really listened to Perry's post-Montclairs stuff though.

I'll post some other stuff later this week typing And thanks for that Ree-Ree notice T84 exclaim I'll check that one cool

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Reply #5 posted 08/14/10 7:13am

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From their 2 recommended albums, if you're hip to these

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Reply #6 posted 08/14/10 8:01am

ThreadBare	I learned of Phil through late night television. Back in the day, Arsenio used to have nights devoted to folks singing. It'd usually be Perry with folks like George Duke and Rachelle Ferrelle. A fun time would be had by all.
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Reply #7 posted 08/14/10 10:31am

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ThreadBare said:

I learned of Phil through late night television.

Back in the day, Arsenio used to have nights devoted to folks singing. It'd usually be Perry with folks like George Duke and Rachelle Ferrelle.

A fun time would be had by all.

Great that Arsenio put them in the spotlight on tv cool

One of the first tv-shows where i saw Phil appear was in this GRP-special around 1985, on Super Channel :

I eventually found some of those shows on laserdisc, and later some on dvd :

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