The Exotics – Boogaloo Investigator
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Greetings all
I was recently digging through my own crates to pull out some stuff for the radio show (and the blog, natch).
When I almost flipped past the record you see before you, I just shook my head.
You see, the Exotics ‘Boogaloo Investigator’ is a long, LONG time favorite and a very “early days” funk 45.
Picked up many years ago, after (if memory serves) hearing it on a mix tape, and for not a lot of scratch (though it’s a lot more expensive now), the 45 was a perennial in my funk sets, and one of those records that always gets me to kick up the volume when it comes on in the car.
Oddly enough, after all these years, I had never found any information about the group, thanks in large part to the fact that the fine folks at Excello didn’t feel it was necessary to include composer or producer credits on either side of the 45.
Fortunately for all of us, while a-Googling, I happened upon some info on Sir Shambling’s Deep Soul Heaven site.
As it turns out, the Exotics were a South Carolina group that recorded two 45s for the Nashville-based Excello organization in 1967.
‘Boogaloo Investigator’, a JB-inspired workout with a touch of novelty (re Dragnet) is a mover and a groover.
Their second 45, ‘Let’s Try to Build a Love Affair’ (you can hear it over at Deep Soul Heaven) is one of the great Otis Redding sound-alikes (by vocalist John Riley) ever committed to vinyl.
I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
Thanks larry, you are our boogaloo investigator number 1 !
May be someone knows why in the UK “On the Brink” by Mike Vickers (Manfred Mann’s guitarist) was renamed “Boogaloo Investigator”(credited to Matt Parsons…) by some inspired bootleggers ? Homage to the Exotics’classic ?
Greetings from Paris !
Robert
That’s funny! I know the Mike Vickers track but had no idea that it had been retitled/rereleased as the Matt Parsons Orchestra.
I assume someone must have seen/heard the Exotics record to borrow the title.
I’ll have to do some more digging!
Larry
yo this is crazy never having heard this before…the hi hat implies something that the rest of the drumset is not…genius! must incorporate!!