I recently dove deeper into Numero Group’s reissue of tracks from Deep City Records, the Miami-based soul and R&B label founded by FAMU classmates Willie Clark and Johnny Pearsall in the early 60s. Really fun to trace the influences drawn from Motown, marching bands, and Afro-Caribbean music that created the “Miami sound” and launched the careers of great artists like Betty Wright, who recorded the linked song “Paralyzed” when she was 12 years old (!!!) 🐊🐊🐊 Supplemental: a solid YouTube documentary on the history of Deep City
The Equatics - Doin It!!!! This album was self produced, recorded and performed by a group of high school seniors inside of their school gym in 1972, it’s incredibly soulful, funky and tender. The group never recorded another album again! Don’t let this album be lost to time, it’s amazing!!
I found this in a record store visiting family in Florida, and I looked it up on Spotify and it turned out to be City pop with amazing drum Intros/textures and pretty corny instrumentals so that with this cover is >
Whatever happened to celebrating the magic of a new way to go upstairs? 🐭🐭🐭 Pictured: Elevator grand opening with ribbon-cutting ceremony at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, 1999
