Tag: terry lewis
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Dance to the Beat
“Dance to the Beat” feels tailor-made for live performances, giving Morris plenty of opportunities to exhort the audience with the title phrase while the lively synth and guitar riff provides some additional inducement.
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Cool
The mental image evoked by “Cool” was inseparable from the literal image being created around Morris Day and the Time.
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Get It Up
Here, for the first time on record, was Prince playing funk in the raw, “uncut” style of Parliament and Funkadelic–or, for that matter, his former onstage rival Rick James.
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André Cymone, Godfather of the Minneapolis Sound: A Retrospective from an Alternate Timeline
It wouldn’t be fair to give a single artist credit for “inventing” the Minneapolis Sound; but the fact remains that when most music fans think of Minneapolis, one man in particular comes to mind. I’m talking, of course, about André Cymone.