A heads up here. Diddy Wah just posted "I Found You" by Yvonne Fair, which probably brings no spark of recognition from all four of you who traipse through here. It's the same song James Brown released three years later as "I Feel Good (I Found You)". Though Fair's version is Northern Soul all the way, it's notable that she's backed by "James Brown Band" who must have still been getting their funky footing. I'm not really sure how many of the members of the band were actually on both recordings. It's safe to say the way the JB billed backing bands on early recordings is muddy to say the least.
Now, this is how this works, this meandering. After I ran into the Diddy Wah post and decided to look into things a little. I did find another really good early cut, "Say Yeah Yeah". Then I read that she later recorded at Motown with Norman Whitfield producing. If you've been paying attention, you know that Whitfield is the man who pushed things at Motown in a psychedelic soul direction, in the late sixties and early seventies. There's probably very few singers who have worked with James Brown in the early sixties, and worked with Whitfield in his prime. I found one song from that period, "Let Your Hair Down", and though it's got the Whitfield touch, it's got the pace of an Issac Hayes jam, and her voice sounds like Betty Davis. It's really bare bones. At the very least an interesting thing to hear, I happen to dig it. Completely different from the other two, but that's how this meandering works. I'm not going to let all this goofing off go to waste.
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Listen:Yvonne Fair - I Found You mp3 at Diddy Wah (Go there to get it)
Yvonne Fair - Say Yeah Yeah mp3 (via Zippy Share) at Funky By Nature NOTE: There are several download buttons. Click on the orange one that says "Download Now"
Yvonne Fair - Let Your Hair Down mp3 at Rap Radar
James Brown - I Feel Good mp3 at Momo92zik (?)
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