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v/a - loving on the flipside - lp plus book - now again - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Darling Dears - I Dont Think Ill Ever Love Another
2. Eddie Finley & The Cincinnati Show Band - Treat Me Right Or Leave Me Alone
3. Thomas East - Slippin Around
4. Hot Chocolate - We Had True Love
5. The Equatics - Merry Go Around
6. Black Conspirators - Love
7. Jazzie Cazzie And The Eight Sounds - Young Girl
8. Rhythm Machine - Whatcha Gonna Do?
9. Ed. Nelson - Ill Give You A Ring (When I Come, If I Come)
10. Darling Dears - And I Love You
11. Symphonic Four - Who Do You Think You%u2019re Fooling (Part I)
12. Lee Bonds - Ill Find A True Love
13. Black Exotics - What Am I Waiting For
14. Black Velvet - Is It Me You Really Love
15. The Conspiracy - I Believe (Our Love Has Gone Away)
16. Little Janice - Since You ve Been Gone
17. Primitive - You Are Everything To Me
18. Eunice Collins - At The Hotel
19. Hunts Determination Band - Are We Through
20. Disciples Of Soul - Together
21. Symphonic Four - Who Do You Think You're Fooling (Part II)

The Long Overlooked Ballads From The Flip Sides Of The Funk 45S In The Now-Again And Truth & Soul Vaults. 21 Rare And Unreleased Tracks, 80-Page Book With Full Annotation, Never-Before-Published Photos And Each Band's Story !!

Now-Again unearthed so much information about the bands that recorded the definitive disco and modern soul contained in it's recently launched Soul Cal anthology that the label decided there was no other choice but to release an album and a book at the same time.

The music contained on Loving On The Flip Side music is too damn good to be anonymously relaunched, decades after musical visionaries blended the best of heavy funk and sweet soul into a unified whole. And simply telling the stories of these vocalists and bands without allowing their lovelorn pleas to be heard again wasn�t an option. Thus, Loving On The Flip Side again offers the enthused a chance to listen to, read about and reflect on another great burst of black American creativity: the creation of the sublime genre we like to call �sweet funk.�

It seems laughable to skip past Thomas East�s �Slipping Around� 7� for the cheesy funk of �Just A Trip,� or to listen obsessively to Lou Ragland�s instrumental funk on the Hot Chocolate LP and ignore his indolent-yet-stirring �We Had True Love.� Yet we did just that, until we and the production team known as Truth & Soul first heard the Darling Dears and Funky Heavy�s beautiful two-sider nearly ten years back. This was the record that set Loving On The Flip Side in motion, as the Darling Dears and Funky Heavy�s two songs precipitated the sweet funk genre: the dichotomy of Funky Heavy�s skull snapping rhythm section and the teenage Dears� angelic harmonies didn�t sound like anything heard before. That discovery set off a decade long search for the band and culminated in their discovery, the documenting of their stories, the emergence of their master tapes and the inclusion of their songs on Loving On The Flip Side.


The excitement felt while listening to the Darling Dears and Funky Heavy�s masterworks forced Now Again back into the field, in search of other sweet funk swooners and beat-heavy ballads to round out this anthology. The opportunity to present anew such wondrous soul music made the exhaustive process that produced Loving On The Flip Side worthwhile, and allowed us to collect one-offs that escaped prior investigations into the deep funk and sweet soul genres.