Entertainment For Lively Minds
The great Hot Wax/Invictus sound lives on
Straight in at No.1 this weekend in our house, with generation-spanning appeal, is the new Dionne Bromfield single. She's that young lass, Amy Winehouse's protege/"goddaughter" who did a likeable album of covers of old soul/pop/girl group songs a couple of years ago when she was 13.
Her new single's a belter and, like the ace Cee-Lo album, really reminds me of the Invictus/ Hot Wax sound of the early '70s.
These were the labels set up and run by Holland/Dozier/Holland after they flounced from Motown. They had a few hits but, for various reasons, petered out within a few years. Good to know the sound lives on.
Here's an 8-song Spotify playlist featuring The Barrino Brothers, Honey Cone, Freda Payne, Tyrone Edwards, HDH, The Hi-Lites, Chairmen of the Board and Glass House. There are plenty worse ways to while away 23 minutes.
http://open.spotify.com/user/rdjl/playlist/6TFoFyTM6SMDcD2UqjillW
And here's Dionne
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