Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Tuesday 12-inch Flashback: ‘Strawberry Letter 23’

8 comments:

bklyn6 said...

Yes. Had to grab my player to see if I had this on it. I do. :-)

Had that strawberry-colored 12" too. I remember thinking how hippy-trippy this sounded back then, unlike anything I was used to hearing on urban contemporary radio.

'Drea said...

I was trying to remember the name of this song and hummed a few notes for my friend, a musicologist of sorts, and once she named that tune, I've had it on my MP3 player ever since.

I really dig this song.

junebug said...

Ahhh, yes! Shuggie Otis by way of the Brothers Johnson! With velvet roses diggin' freedom flight! Undercover Brother, you did it again!

bklyn6 said...

^I'm not very familiar with Shuggie Otis, but I have his version as well.

With velvet roses diggin' freedom flight!

Da hell? But, that's what I'm talkin' about. :-D

Undercover Black Man said...

^ That's the one line that means something. "Freedom Flight" was the name of Shuggie's first LP.

:^D

S.O.L. said...

Blasting right into my distant past. Had this exact disk too. Loved that it was red - used to hold it up to the light. Probably why it ended up getting warped. Doh. Thanks UBM

Invisible Woman said...

i'm with you bklyn6--even with the explanation of shuggie's first album, the lyrics make zero sense--always loved this song so much tho, even tho i'm sure inebriation was involved on all sides, haha

estiv said...

There should be a small museum somewhere devoted to the story of psychedelic funk, with this song and early Funkadelic (sometimes I get so used to that name that I forget what it means) as prime examples.