The Magictones – I’ll Make It Up To You
Greetings all.
Today’s selection is another lesson from the chapter where the old sage tells you to remember to flip over those 45s.
If memory serves, I first encountered the Magictones via Odub’s Soul Sides, where I was knocked on my ass by the epic breakbeat that opens their 1970 cover of the Parliament’s ‘Good Old Music’.
Naturally, I set out in search of my own copy. It took me a little while to file it, bit when I did I w as happy as the old record collecting clam, because there was almost as much heat on the b-side as there was on the top.
There, opposite ‘Good Old Music’ was a fantabulous, funky bit of sweet soul. ‘I’ll Make It Up To You’, opens with psychedelic sounding guitar, which is soon joined by electric sitar, and some tight drums. The Magictones themselves soon follow with some delicious harmony singing.
The group, Virginia McDonald, Tyrone Douglas, Tyrone Berkeley and Calvin Stephenson (and several other members over the course of their career) recorded just over a dozen 45s for six different Detroit labels between 1965 and 1972.
“I’ll Make It Up To You’ was recorded and released in 1969, and was a regional hit in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
It is a very groovy record indeed, and I hope you dig it.
See you on Friday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Larry, Thanks for all the music through 2014. . . . never missed and always much appreciated here. Looking forward to more in the new year. Best wishes to you and yours for 2015. Have fun!
I just WANT to testify what your site has done for me!
like Murph and the Magictones from the Blues Brothers…..
Happy New Year guys!
The Magictones might have dabbled with funk and psychedelia back in 1970 but they went the whole hog in 1975 when Norman Whitfield drafted them to become the new lineup of The Undisputed
Truth .. I can’t remember if they get name checked but underneath all that astrozombie makeup that’s the Magictones backing up Joe Harris from “Cosmic Truth” onwards.
Hope your health’s improving.
davie