COBIE T. - "Sweet Thang"/"Brother Man"
pickwick33
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I'm going straight from memory here, as I cannot find the 45 in my stacks at the moment, so pardon me if the artist name is a little off...but does anybody have any info on this obscure funk single? It's from 1978, but it sounds way earlier...green label, with the song titles printed in unusually large lettering...both sides are funk workouts, no disco influence at all, and a singer that is moaning in an offbeat Charles Wright-ish voice? Info please! The label has a Wisconsin address, although I know damn well by now that label location does not = band location...
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A Milwaukee artist (who I believe is deceased), he had these releases:
"The Cobies Dance/ Hot Pants" (Gibbs 103)
"I???m Hanging Up My Rock & Roll Shoes/ I Hear You Knocking On The Doors Of My Heart" (Vera 102971)
"Sweet Thang/ Sweet Thang (Inst.)" (New World NW-7710) 1977
"Brother Man/ Sweet Thing" (Sweet Thang AMS-CM-7968-01) 1978
The Sweet Thang label also put out a great disco/modern 45 by C On The Funk.
The other 45 version is nothing like the '78 release
http://tufftunes.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/cobie-joe-payne-sweet-thing/
Also, from what I know, a UK collector turned up maybe a dozen or so a few years back. Those were promptly sold. Only a handful, 6 or 7 maybe, have turned up locally by diggers. Def. not a 45 I'd want to misplace!
http://www.divshare.com/download/6228239-8ec
Killer song!
THANK YOU![/b]
Yeah, that's the single. I believe somebody else is co-credited as artist on the other side.
Also, from what I know, a UK collector turned up maybe a dozen or so a few years back. Those were promptly sold. Only a handful, 6 or 7 maybe, have turned up locally by diggers. Def. not a 45 I'd want to misplace!
Yeah, I didn't misplace it per se - I know it's still in my stacks. See, the thing about it is, I file about half of my singles by labels (Atlantic, One-Derful, Buddah, Dud Sound, Twinight, etc.), and the other half is just "miscellaneous." Cobie T. resides in the miscellaneous pile and I didn't feel like looking through it (it's not like I have a whole bunch of 45's on Sweet Thang Records), but I figured enough of you would know what I was talking about. Nice, weird record!!
This the worst singing i probably ever heard on a record. Makes me cringe like the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard.
That people seem to be craving for this is beyond me.
This must be the epitome of collecting for the sake of rarity.
Stamp collecting to the fullest
Different strokes for different folks. I feel the same way from the opposite end of the spectrum shocked that anyone would think it's horrible. Off kilter delivery, yes, but I think it is a killer tune.
DUDE, THOSE OFFKEY VOCALS WERE THE f*cking POINT!!![/b]
That's EXACTLY what the cherry on top of the sundae is to me. Weird Amerikana at its' finest. I played this on the turntable at the store and I was all about it from the moment he started (trying to) sing. No, he ain't got no "adagios in his fortissimos" or whatever the hell you wanna call it, he's not conservatory-trained, but then again he's not pretending to be. For me, eccentric touches like this are half the fun. Not everything has to be a million-dollar production. If funk this raw doesn't get it for you, go back to your Michael Franks records...
Dude, calm down.I guess the reason I don't like that song is because I'm still not that iluminated and far away from your level of knowledge about "real funky blackman soul".
one person's turd is another person's treasure
What I like is that this 45 is a turd AND a treasure, so guess we're both right!
It was a most uncharacteristic post for sure.
But entertaining.
Yes, sir.
THIS one?
At Beverly Records, a collectors' store in Chicago, ca. 1998 or so.
All hail the new breed: Lower, Slower, Weaker.
Yeah, that version = sheer poop. Before I obtained the good version I had that one. I would put it on occasionally and pretend it was OK out of utter denial.
I wonder how many of these traveled to Chicago. I'm sure Beverley's had a box or two.
IIRC, this was the only copy they had, by the time I got to it.
Two copies of the C On The Funk 45 came out of there around the same time.
Now who here knows about Nature's "Do Your Own Thing" on Alithia?
If anyone is interested they can hear C on the Funk here. The tune is called "In the Disco".
Who were also connected to Dazzle who put out an LP called Layin' In The Shade on Sweet Thing. Recorded in Chicago in '81 and produced by CJP... with the brilliant Disco's Out.
Was this an anti-disco number?
More of a funky modern soulish instro.
I've been looking for someone else who knew this record existed.