Jackie Lee – I Love You
Jackie Lee
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Greetings all.
The middle of the week approacheth, and so I bring you something unusual and very groovy.
Jackie Lee has made many an appearance here at Funky16Corners, as part of Bob and Earl, under the alias of Earl Cosby, and under his own name.
He was one of the more interesting – and as you’ll see with today’s selection, versatile – singers on the Southern California soul scene in the 60s.
I had been on the lookout for his funky 1970 single ‘The Chicken’ for a long time, and when it turned up in a box of 45s at a sale, I grabbed it forthwith and took it home with me.
‘The Chicken’ – which will grave this space some time in the future – is a very cool, Sly and the Family Stone-influenced groover, but the really pleasant surprise was awaiting me on the flipside.
‘I Love You’ is one of those very unusual, almost shockingly different tunes, that once you’ve heard it, you spend an unnatural amount of time wondering why you hadn’t heard it before.
Written by Lee,with Bob Relf and Fred Smith, ‘I Love You’ is a ballad, with an odd, vague psychedelic cast to it.
Opening with a boiling organ, and propelled by a distant sounding guitar and a throbbing bass, ‘I Love You’ has a haunting melody. The production and arrangement (by James Carmichael) owe a debt to the pop side of the charts, and Lee really gets a chance to stretch as a vocalist.
It’s proof that even as Mirwood was fading, the creative powers behind the label were still a force to be dealt with.
Though ‘The Chicken’ just made it into the R&B Top 50 in August of 1970, ‘I Love You’ didn’t generate any heat, and was soon (unjustly) forgotten.
I hope you dig it as much as I do, and I’ll see you all on Friday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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