Re: id song: go-go swing

Tyler Askew (tyler@america.net)
Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:37:23 -0500


Since we're a little bit on the go-go tip, anyone ever heard the B.Y.O.B
release about 2 yrs. ago (produced by Michael Ivy of Basehead)? It is a
group outta D.C. that combine hiphop, jazz, go go, and funk - and it is
tight too...Look for it...

TYLER

>Daniel Ryan Bidwa wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Hirschkoff <dh@nil.enpc.fr>:
>> >Can anybody identify this song, which is being played from time to
>> >time on Radio Nova, that goes "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got
>> >that go-go swing": it sounds like a go-go jam, a live thing if I
>> >remember well (and of course reminds a bit of the jazz tune).
>>
>> Like someone else said, that's Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers.
>> You're probably hearing the version from their "Only One Way to Go"
>> CD, which was released by Rhythm King in 1988 or so.
>
>the album "any other way to go?" was release by rhythm attack in 1987.
>
>>I've seen at least two different reissues of parts of the record, both of
which
>> had "GoGo Swing" on them, but the original is still the best -- it's
>> super long,
>
>73 mins,37 secs
>
>> and has Marion Barry (then the mayor of Washington DC)
>> guesting on "Go Go Drug Free". (He was later arrested for cocaine use,
>> spent some time in jail, and was recently reelected Mayor.)
>>
>> (now playing: Big Flame's "Rigour" compilation)
>
>aah, the ubiquitous "now playing." i was wondering if this conceit would
>eventually show up on the list (or it's abbreviation, "np"), and there it is.
>
>kevin kiernan
>mr fliz
>
>np the tony rich project
>