The “oh shit I just realized _____” thread

[Electrode]

I heard Tommy Turrentine's "Gunga Din" on the radio and just realized that Rico Rodriguez' "Africa", on Blue Note's only reggae LP, uses the melody.

https://youtu.be/87TdWQES4D8?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/lhnBVaIj10s?feature=shared

 

[ketan]

hold up - is it common knowledge that the key voice of one of the most legit proto-disco/jazz funk records of all time was also ANNA HUXATABLE??



free, good thing, dreams - incredible vocals. props to Clarice Taylor.

 

[Jimster]

TomO, late of this parish, was doing keys for James Mason on this tour recently.