He put the PINGz in RING MY BELL :

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Carl Marsh :

Carl Marsh :: Arranger - Composer - Conductor

Biography:

The 70's
I began my career playing woodwinds in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra - at the same time I played recording sessions on acoustic guitar and began arranging and writing for orchestras. These sessions included artists like Isaac Hayes, The Ohio Players, The Bar-Kays, Wilson Pickett, Staple Singers - you know, the Memphis Soul thang. Later in that decade I switched to keyboards and arranged and played on about a gazillion more sessions for all the artists that were recording in Memphis, as well as others in Los Angeles: Jose Feliciano, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, The Temptations, etc.

Carl's album credits are many especially on into the eighties and nineties ... but of interest here are these LPs from the seventies :

The Bar-Kays --- Injoy (1978) --- Conductor, Orchestra Arrangements
Sticky Fingers --- Sticky Fingers (1978) --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
Southern Exposure --- Headin' South --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
THP --- #2 Tender Is the Night (1978) --- Synthesizer, Keyboards
Anita Ward --- Songs of Love (1979 --- Synthesizer, Harp, Moog Synthesizer

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All this comes up because I just recovered a box of records from an ex (twenty-five years later !! ) and in it is Denise Lasalle's I'M SO HOT lp



( paid 2.50 for it used back then --- cover still stickered). It's a fine collaboration with a rich mixture of styles ....including the prerequisite Millie Jackson bitch rap on YOU'LL NEVER GET YOUR HOOKS ON MY MAN . MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU is a gospel laden disco/funk groove . GIVING UP ... a slow story-telling song written by Van McCoy and sounds ideal for Gladys Knight . I'M SO HOT a Cheryl Lynn meets Shalamar groove. COMA TA YA HA DANCE (WE CAME TO EARTH TO DANCE) .....space disco ?? Aliens funking , includes a reference to those CLOSE ENCOUNTERS tones ... we don't wanna take your ladies, we jus' came to dance . This song sounds rather Jamiroquai !! :icon_eek:
Needs a 12" : TEAR FOR TEAR ....a horn/string diva song with a well disciplined application of RING MY BELL pings ... a remix with a nice break or two .....and wow:icon_cool: ...

That would be the song to get this LP for, in my opinion ....if it weren't for another song I keep gravitating back to :
TRY MY LOVE (background vocals: try it baby , you might like it ....su-gar) an old-styled horns and strings composition with just enough of a persistent euro synth growl added to it so that the result is a great merging of sounds .

That synth line is infectious and it says on the LP that the ARP 2600 was played by Carl Marsh and that's when I decided to find out more about him.

TRY MY LOVE I'll describe as sounding like Rod Stewart's DO YA THINK I'M SEXY meeting Blondie's HEART OF GLASS ......... which to my ears is a very good thing .... :icon_rolleyes:... :icon_cool:

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[markydefad]

OK, now I'm all confused!!! :icon_surprised::icon_eek:

I typed in the Zulema thread that Denise LaSalle did the same "Giving Up" that Zulema did...only as a ballad on her "I'm So Hot" LP--my copy is a test pressing with no credits!!!... checking the Francois K Choice Collection with the Zulema "Giving Up"-- the credit says it was written by D.Wolfe...now you say that the Denise LaSalle song was by Van McCoy...

I knew I should have listened to the Zulema again...I pulled it but never got around to listening... :icon_confused::icon_rolleyes:

So am I mixing up the "Giving Up" songs??? Don't wanna mislead the folks!!!
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I can add only this :

from Denise LaSalle's I'M SO HOT lp jacket


All songs written by Denise LaSalle (:icon_cool: )

except:
TEAR FOR TEAR written by Carl Spencer,Ted Cooper, and Edward Zolas
GIVING UP written by Van McCoy
MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU written by James Wolfe (the wolfe is back !) and Denise La Salle

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This cut must be a lot better than I realized !!!




Winning bid :

US $504.99
+ US $7.25 shipping

:icon_eek: :icon_eek: :icon_eek:



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[markydefad]

That's nothing new--see below

....it is odd that "I'm So Hot" is still fetching such large sums, given it's inclusion on one of the "Disco Spectrum" cds....I somehow thought that "Try My Love" was on the b-side...but not according to this...

Denise LaSalle I'm So Hot (Promo 12") DiscoMusic.com

So I guess the $11.99 I paid for the test pressing of the LP (exact same version as the 12") wasn't that bad an investment, eh?

[Videoskooter]

US $504.99
+ US $7.25 shipping

That's almost € 350,00! If you realise that a new CD costs € 18,00:icon_eek:

Some € 25,00 ($ 35,00) is my limit for a classic vinyl!

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Here it is :

Denise LaSalle's
I'M SO HOT





A $500.00 - $700.00 song ??? :icon_confused::icon_rolleyes:


someone can 'splain? ,

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[FunkyChris]

Last week I bought "Disco Spectrum 3" which contains LaSalle's "I'm So Hot".
There is written:
We are willing to forgive Denise LaSalle for 'My Toot-Toot'...after all, the lady deserved a hit in the UK after so long and we know she's capable of belting it out. Denise could well have had an earlier hit had 'I'm So Hot' been fully available as a 12-inch, but it was commercially released, either here or in the 'States. This sensuous and yes, hot boogie groove (which sports distinctive choppy guitar and a whislte effect Dr. Dre would be proud of) has always been an underground classic and it's high time it burned some more. Sugarhill records did the honours in 1981 with a rap version by Superwolf, entitled '...Can Do It', complete with wolf howls!

Well, the song is OK, but I wouldn't pay 500$ for that one .

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I still think this is the pick cut :




try it ba-by , youmightlikeit



Of course Denise' biggest success came from this tune she self penned:
A million seller that ranked at #13 on Billboard's HOT 100 in September of 1971







I didn't know it then ... but do now .....the horn heavy arrangement of that song ....so well done

and no wonder ...arranged by Willie Mitchell .....the behind-the-scenes talent behind all of Al Green's hits: :icon_cool:



love dot connecting ........:icon_mrgreen:

This first hit of Al's was on the Hot 100 at the same time as TRAPPED BATCL:
It was a million seller that peaked at #11.



what an exciting time for Willie Mitchell

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