Lonette McKee – Do To Me

By , February 23, 2016 1:07 pm

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Listen/Download – Lonette McKee – Do To Me MP3

Greetings all.

The tune I bring you today is something from the more ‘modern soul’ side of things, and has a very interesting pedigree.

If you are close to my age or older, you probably first knew of Lonette McKee as an actress, in films like ‘Sparkle’, ‘The Cotton Club’ and ‘Malcolm X’, as well as many TV shows.

It was only a few years ago that I discovered that the Detroit-born McKee had an earlier career as a singer, first recording in the ate 60s (when she was still a teenager) for Michigan labels like Dearborn and M-S, and then in the early 70s (as with today’s selection) for Sussex.

‘Do To Me’ (mis-titled on this UK pressing as ‘Do It To Me’) is a smooth, hook-laden dancer, written by McKee herself and produced by no less a team than Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey. The song has jazzy chord changes that remind me of a Becker/Fagen outtake (the opening bears some resemblance to Terry Callier’s ‘Ordinary Joe’).

McKee was a fine singer and the brisk arrangement made ‘Do To Me’ a favorite on UK dance floors in the 70s, and while it didn’t do much over here, its funky flipside ‘Save It (Don’t Give It Away)’ made it into the R&B Hot 100 (with McKee performing the song on Soul Train).

It is a groovy tune, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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One Response to “Lonette McKee – Do To Me”

  1. Pete Gloria says:

    If you haven’t come across it already, I can’t recommend enough giving ‘Mind Intruder’ a listen.

    From when Lonette (as she was then, before the surname) started out with that same team of people. Unselfconsciouly quirky Northern Soul gem, with endearingly creaky gothic sound effects and sci-fi psych vibe to boot.

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