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Thread started 01/14/11 3:49pm

TheFreakerFant
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2 DAMN COOL AND FUNKY - 'Black Man' by Stevie Wonder

This song is so damn funky I love it, the horns and the beat. I recommend it!

It's on Songs In The Key Of Life album.

[Edited 1/14/11 15:50pm]

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Reply #1 posted 01/14/11 3:56pm

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I wonder how long it took to record the children and teachers at the end.

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 #2 posted 01/14/11 4:02pm

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MickyDolenz said:

I wonder how long it took to record the children and teachers at the end.

Yes, the teacher sounds really fierce doesn't she!

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Reply #3 posted 01/14/11 4:08pm

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Makes you wonder what would it sound like if Stevie & Gary Byrd did a WHOLE album together. I really think Gary is one of the most underrated writers ever. And great radio personality too.

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Reply #4 posted 01/14/11 4:31pm

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Yup, great song from Stevie's "golden" days... cool

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #5 posted 01/14/11 4:32pm

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Harlepolis said:

Makes you wonder what would it sound like if Stevie & Gary Byrd did a WHOLE album together. I really think Gary is one of the most underrated writers ever. And great radio personality too.

I agree...

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Reply #6 posted 01/14/11 4:50pm

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I love the song, but I have to confess to having always hated the spoken 'classroom' parts at the end. I even created an edit that fades out just as that bit starts. boxed

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
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