Sly & The Family - Seventh Son (early recordings)
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On Vampi Soul.never seen this before, anyone know if its good?
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I have "Seventh Son," the song, on another "early Sly" collection (from the UK), Precious Stone on Ace. It's sort of a Johnny Rivers-ish, almost garage-rock thing. Even though Rivers had a hit with the same song, Stone's take on this Willie Dixon tune is quite different...
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Yep, this is early, pre-Family Stone stuff that I have on other compilations. I like it, it's pretty good.
Going straight from memory, some tracks are with his high school doo-wop group the Viscaynes; some tracks are just Sly mucking around in the studio, around the time he was working for Autumn Records; "Don't Say I Didn't Warn You" isn't even by Sly, it's something he produced for Gloria Scott & the Tonettes on Warner Brothers.
How many "Swim" songs did Sly write? "Cmon And Swim", "S-W-I-M", and now this "(I just learned how to) Swim"....