True love waits
I was listening through a stack of 45s that had been exiled to my closet for several years when I discovered this:
Tony Troutman: "I Truly Love You" (Gramophon, 197?)
Tony Troutman is a singer and songwriter who recorded for a number of Atlanta labels in the 1970s and 1980s. Contrary to what I've read in a few places, I don't think he had anything to do with Roger Troutman's funk outfit, Zapp, although he did cut a collectible modern soul record.
This track is straight-ahead soul and subtle, to boot-- I can see how its charm would elude a casual listen. After a bunch more listens I was hypnotized by its intimacy and warmth. It would sound really good alongside Eunice Collins's "At the Hotel", Sweet & Innocent's "Express Your Love" or a half-dozen Bobby Womack classics.
I apologize for the crappy quality of the vinyl rip. My copy of the 45 is actually pretty clean but the pressing is awful.
Tony Troutman: "I Truly Love You" (Gramophon, 197?)
Tony Troutman is a singer and songwriter who recorded for a number of Atlanta labels in the 1970s and 1980s. Contrary to what I've read in a few places, I don't think he had anything to do with Roger Troutman's funk outfit, Zapp, although he did cut a collectible modern soul record.
This track is straight-ahead soul and subtle, to boot-- I can see how its charm would elude a casual listen. After a bunch more listens I was hypnotized by its intimacy and warmth. It would sound really good alongside Eunice Collins's "At the Hotel", Sweet & Innocent's "Express Your Love" or a half-dozen Bobby Womack classics.
I apologize for the crappy quality of the vinyl rip. My copy of the 45 is actually pretty clean but the pressing is awful.
Labels: soul
posted by Matthew at
7:05 PM
5 Comments:
Any record that either starts w/ a phone call or incorporates one w/in the first 30 seconds is usually good.
I'm trying to think up exceptions to that rule and drawing a blank. I think you're on to something.
Tony Troutman, Esther Williams, Rick James, Shirley Brown (no ring sound fx, tho, I don't think).. what!
Holds true for rap, too:
Warning, 1-900-Dial-a-Crook, Peel Their Caps Back, Why Is That, Phone Tap, Do It Like It G.O., 1-900-Hustler, 911 Is a Joke and so on....
Not sure where the LP Mac Dre recorded over the phone while in prison fits into the equation.
Great tune! Sad pressing, but really, it just adds to the overall dustiness.
When it comes to phone call intros, don't leave out Bobby Womack's classic "How Could You Break My Heart" from his often overlooked "Roads of Life" album.
...and about a hundred indie rap record from the mid to late 80s era that used the instrumental side of Indeep's "Last Night a DJ Saved my Life" - which included toilet flush sound fx too.
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