Praise Poems Vol. 9

 

Again, the track called The Ring by Diane Elliott feels like it should have been a mega-hit back then when it was released as a single, in  ??  who knows when as it was only rereleased in 2022. 

Talk about an obscurity, it wasn't even released back in the day!

A track called Hey Flicka by Mikael Neumann (Danish-Swedish guitarist and songwriter) impressed me enough that I bought the vinyl from 1973 to rip so I'll be back shortly with that one. Too bad the fusion and funk for the most part ran out from the earliest installments of the Praise Poems series.

And another, The Answer Lies in Love from a 1977 single, an absolutely lovely Bacharach imitation:

This is such a great example of what I'm always talking about, a track beautifully written and performed, very much like countless other Motown hits from the day, similar for ex. to any hit by Curtis Mayfield or Al Green that made it onto the pop charts, and tragically lost in the bottom of a singles crate until some incredibly patient collector, 50 years later, half a century, resuscitated it for this compilatory release--god bless the folks who did this, really. Imagine all the dross and dreck they had to slog through to find the handful of gems that make this worth hearing, but is it ever worth hearing, I think you'll agree, even just judging from the quality of these last few tracks.

That song for sure was a real standout for me.