Reply With QuoteCollecting for 25 years now and never saw it
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I have been wondering this for a long time. I have
a repress from the early 80's with Marvin Gaye on the flip,
but can anyone out there confirm that an actual CBS
Columbia 12" was released? I've been collecting records
for 20 years, and have never run across one.
just curious
:o
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Collecting for 25 years now and never saw it
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What a fantastic piece of blue eyed soul. The feel of this track sends shivers down my spine and I especially like the drumming on it. Some little touches that make me feel glad to be alive whenever I hear them.
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The earliest 12" I have by Boz Scaggs is "Hollywood", from his 1977 Down Two Then Left lp. Never saw "Lowdown" in this format.
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Nicky
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I'm a BIG fan of Boz Scaggs. His last CD was pretty good, too, IMHO.
I love "Lowdown"...but my fave from "Silk Degrees" is the LP opener "What Can I Say". A kick-ass groove with horns and female backup singers and that cool LA session-player vibe that was to become the Steely Dan/Toto sound. Most of Toto actually played on "Silk Degrees".
"What can I say...what can I do?"
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I've never seen a twelve of "Lowdown" either. Something that popular would have eventually passed through Aloha Records (new, promo or used) at one point.
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Obviously, there was a long version on the album but as far as I know not on 12". This has to be one of my alltime favorite songs. For me it"s the bass.
It falls in the same category as "Georgie Porgy" (Toto), "Wildflower" (Skylark), "FM" - that long version with the long sax interlude (Steely Dan) and some others. Hey, I think we posted on this subject before...
Marky, I too loved that latest Boz Scaggs album, especially track 12, the last track, which is a slow blues type ballad. Fantastic... but packed away for now until we move proper...
BTW there are also quite a few covers of Lowdown. One that I really liked was by an English band, was it Light Of The World? It came out probably around 1984 or 85 - I remember giving it a lot of airplay. It might even have been a flip-side or album track.
It has also been used as a basis for some new songs. I know one by Kenny Thomas, and recently there was one with a female singer. But without my collection here I can not be more specific.
Darn, old age and a fading memory! :roll:
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Maarten, the recent track by a female singer that samples 'Lowdown' extensively is 'The Reason' by Sylk 130.
My favourite Boz record is the 'Middle Man' LP from 1980 featuring the one & only Sharon Redd (as well as Toto, as you said Marky.)
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It was relased on a 3-4 track 12" back in the late 80s.
the label was epics "sex drugs and rockn roll"
Fetaured tracks were Lowdon, Jojo and EWF lets groove (not sure about this)
In the same rerelase series they had a 12" with play the funky music - wild cherry and sexual healing - marvin gaye
ect.
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