Young-Holt Unlimited – Hot Pants
Eldee Young & Redd Holt
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Greetings all
Welcome to another groovy week where the corners are funky and the music is too.
Today’s selection has been sitting on the back burner for a long time (too long).
This has nothing to do with its quality and everything to do with the fact that I’ve posted so much Young-Holt ish here over the years that I didn’t want to overdo it.
‘Hot Pants’ is especially groovy because it’s not only a tasty funk jam all by its own bad self, but thanks to the involvement of the mighty Richard Evans (one of the patron saints of Funky16Corners) it sounds like a continuation of the spirit of the Soulful Strings.
Written and arranged by Evans, ‘Hot Pants’ mixes fuzzed out, wah wah guitar (Cash McCall, y’all!) , chants of ‘Hot Pants’ and those wonderful strings, whipping it all into one of the great, lost 45s of the funk era.
Originally included on the 1971 Young-Holt LP ‘Born Again’, there are two versions of the 45, one (the one I have) a double-sided, mono/stereo promo, and the other including the b-side ‘I’ll Be There’.
It’s one of my favorite Young-Holt jams (of which there are many).
I hope you dig it, too.
See you on Wednesday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Was this recorded before or after James Brown did his version of “Hot Pants”?
From what I can tell, they came out around the same time. JB’s Hot Pants charted in July of 1971, Young-Holt’s Hot Pants was released (but did not chart) sometime in the summer of 1971.
Take a look at all the “Hot Pants” records from 1971: https://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/charts.php?vqry=Hot+pants&lidx=0&srt1=sortist&srt2=recorded&srt3=catalog