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Here's another good example of Detroiters & good B-sides/album tracks that are almost never an artist's greatest hits, which often get played out. https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1255514430860820481
Here's another good example of Detroiters & good B-sides/album tracks that are almost never an artist's greatest hits, which often get played out. https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1255514430860820481
Detroiters will ballroom AND ballroom hustle to anything that has the right beat to step to. *Anything.*
This has the right beat, so it's been played for almost 40 years and counting.
I famously "don't go out" but have heard this 1000 times. (1001...)
This has the right beat, so it's been played for almost 40 years and counting.
I famously "don't go out" but have heard this 1000 times. (1001...)
You need either a moderate beat or a slow one. Marvin's "Come Get to This" is a slow one.
Still working on my story, but I put Marvin in it for a reason. This is 100% Detroit ballroom. It's been remade a lot. LJ has done it. Joe did a cover 10 years ago.
Still working on my story, but I put Marvin in it for a reason. This is 100% Detroit ballroom. It's been remade a lot. LJ has done it. Joe did a cover 10 years ago.
Our parents ballroomed and stepped to the Enchantment classic (slow ballroom), and then a neosoul version back in my heyday was popular (moderate).
Even I've taken my two left feet out on the dance floor & ballroomed once or twice to this track, lol.
Even I've taken my two left feet out on the dance floor & ballroomed once or twice to this track, lol.
It's frustrating. There's still an entire soul aesthetic + cultural nuance that doesn't really travel that much outside the Midwest, I guess.
Oh well. But 3 and a half minutes in, that part? And then the octave jump?
That's it. *That's Detroit.* Still.
Oh well. But 3 and a half minutes in, that part? And then the octave jump?
That's it. *That's Detroit.* Still.
You can leave Detroit, but it never leaves you.
Told a friend that years ago when he left. Now, I'm gone, too. But, like we always say, we'll be back home one of these days!
(Signing off.... still shopping, still ain't bought a
thing! 
)
Told a friend that years ago when he left. Now, I'm gone, too. But, like we always say, we'll be back home one of these days!
(Signing off.... still shopping, still ain't bought a
thing! )
