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Thread started 05/04/12 4:52am

SoulAlive

80s R&B flashback: "Murphy's Law" by Cheri (1982)

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Reply #1 posted 05/04/12 4:54am

SoulAlive

I actually prefer this single edit to the more popular 12" version.

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Reply #2 posted 05/04/12 5:30am

rdhull

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one of my fav songs..it's a jam as well as 'fun' song

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #3 posted 05/04/12 8:52am

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U 'gon make me shake my doo loose!
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Reply #4 posted 05/04/12 9:05am

nursev

Damn! I remember it lol

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Reply #5 posted 05/04/12 6:06pm

nursev

Murphy's Law music

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Reply #6 posted 05/04/12 6:45pm

MadamGoodnight

Got it all together dontcha baby... music

Good one! cool

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Reply #7 posted 05/04/12 6:46pm

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Got it all together dontcha baby... music

Good one! cool

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Reply #8 posted 05/04/12 6:47pm

Cinny

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SoulAlive said:

I actually prefer this single edit to the more popular 12" version.

Me too. smile The 45 is b/w the instrumental.

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Reply #9 posted 05/04/12 8:21pm

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This is one of those oddly enjoyable records whose instrumental is as equally enjoyable. Black music in the early 80s did some very innovative things.
Katie Kinisky: "So What Are The Latest Dances, Nell?"
Nell Carter: "Anything The Black Folks did Last Year"
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Reply #10 posted 05/05/12 10:05am

SoulAlive

MotorBootyAffair said:

This is one of those oddly enjoyable records whose instrumental is as equally enjoyable. Black music in the early 80s did some very innovative things.

nod the early 80s was such a fun time for music.The R&B and funk from that era was amazing.Hip-hop had not taken over yet.

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Reply #11 posted 05/05/12 11:12am

Harlepolis

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SoulAlive said:

I actually prefer this single edit to the more popular 12" version.

Me too. smile The 45 is b/w the instrumental.

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drool @ what you have against the wall.

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Reply #12 posted 05/05/12 12:48pm

Cinny

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Harlepolis said:

Cinny said:

Me too. smile The 45 is b/w the instrumental.

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drool @ what you have against the wall.

My plaquemounted original 1984 promo poster for Apollonia 6? innocent

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Reply #13 posted 05/05/12 2:02pm

Harlepolis

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Harlepolis said:

drool @ what you have against the wall.

My plaquemounted original 1984 promo poster for Apollonia 6? innocent

I wanna reach for that red crate, but I'm only 5'5 batting eyes be a doll and bring it over here where I could see it drool

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Reply #14 posted 05/05/12 8:44pm

Cinny

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Harlepolis said:

Cinny said:

My plaquemounted original 1984 promo poster for Apollonia 6? innocent

I wanna reach for that red crate, but I'm only 5'5 batting eyes be a doll and bring it over here where I could see it drool

Oh on the LEFT! lol Shit, there's more where that came from. Catch me next week on a very special A&E's Hoarders

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Reply #15 posted 05/06/12 5:30am

funksterr

Great song. But what a bytch she was to jump into the future and steal Prince's Camille effect then travel backwrd to 1982 and have a hit funk song with it. biggrin

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Reply #16 posted 05/06/12 7:55am

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SoulAlive said:

I actually prefer this single edit to the more popular 12" version.

Me too. I know which 12 Inch version you are referring to. I had never heard it until years later when I bought a compilation CD that had it on it. But I do remember the radio used to play a longer version that sounded like the 45.

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #17 posted 05/06/12 7:57am

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MotorBootyAffair said:

This is one of those oddly enjoyable records whose instrumental is as equally enjoyable. Black music in the early 80s did some very innovative things.

The instrumental version of "Planet Rock" is actually more popular than the vocal version.

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #18 posted 05/06/12 2:32pm

MickyDolenz

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funksterr said:

jump into the future and steal Prince's Camille effect then travel backwrd to 1982

I used to think it was The Chipmunks singing on this and Jam On It too. lol

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 #19 posted 05/06/12 2:41pm

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vainandy said:

MotorBootyAffair said:

This is one of those oddly enjoyable records whose instrumental is as equally enjoyable. Black music in the early 80s did some very innovative things.

The instrumental version of "Planet Rock" is actually more popular than the vocal version.

I remember the local R&B station would play the instrumental version of Talking In Your Sleep by The Romantics. I didn't know until years later that there was verses in the song, just the vocoder voice singing the chorus. They also played the instrumental of Head by Prince. Another popular instrumental was D-Train's You're The One For Me.

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 #20 posted 05/06/12 2:46pm

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vainandy said:



MotorBootyAffair said:


This is one of those oddly enjoyable records whose instrumental is as equally enjoyable. Black music in the early 80s did some very innovative things.


The instrumental version of "Planet Rock" is actually more popular than the vocal version.


Absolutely right! I can also recall the local black station playing the dub version of "Eric B Is President" first (basically scratching and cutting over the breakbeat), long before I discovered there was actually a vocal track.
Katie Kinisky: "So What Are The Latest Dances, Nell?"
Nell Carter: "Anything The Black Folks did Last Year"
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Reply #21 posted 05/10/12 6:14am

SoulAlive

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

I actually prefer this single edit to the more popular 12" version.

Me too. I know which 12 Inch version you are referring to. I had never heard it until years later when I bought a compilation CD that had it on it. But I do remember the radio used to play a longer version that sounded like the 45.

Sometimes,the single edit is superior.A great example is "In The Bush" by Musique.The album version is 8 minutes long,but it's very repetitive.The single version is short,sweet and to the point lol the music sounds faster,too.

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Reply #22 posted 05/10/12 11:55am

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Reply #24 posted 05/16/12 6:29pm

Cinny

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yanowha said:

yes!!

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Reply #25 posted 05/16/12 6:54pm

MickyDolenz

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I didn't know there were two women singing. I've never seen who Cheri was before, I just heard the song a lot. I have the maxi single, but there's no picture on it. There were a lot of songs I heard that I've never seen the act, and don't know what they look like.

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 #26 posted 05/16/12 8:50pm

yanowha

Cheri made two albums. They had some serious jams.

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Reply #27 posted 05/17/12 4:17am

SoulAlive

They came back in 1983 with an excellent single called "Working Girl".Unfortunately,radio rejected the song because of its controversial subject matter (prostitution) but I like it alot...

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Reply #28 posted 05/17/12 8:43am

MickyDolenz

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SoulAlive said:

radio rejected the song because of its controversial subject matter (prostitution)

How is that? Bad Girls (Donna Summer), Roxanne (The Police), and Olivia (The Whispers) were about streetwalkers. For The Love Of Money from The O'Jays also mentions it. They were all played on the radio and were popular.

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 #29 posted 05/17/12 1:55pm

SoulAlive

MickyDolenz said:

SoulAlive said:

radio rejected the song because of its controversial subject matter (prostitution)

How is that? Bad Girls (Donna Summer), Roxanne (The Police), and Olivia (The Whispers) were about streetwalkers. For The Love Of Money from The O'Jays also mentions it. They were all played on the radio and were popular.

Yeah,but for some reason,the Cheri song wasn't played very often.I heard it on our local R&B station three or four times,then it vanished.Such a shame because it's a cool song.

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