Eruption – I Can’t Stand the Rain
Eruption
Listen/Download – Eruption – I Can’t Stand the Rain MP3
Greetings all
Today’s selection is a great example of a very familiar song in an unfamiliar (at least for Americans) setting.
The group Eruption was formed in London in the late 60s as Silent Eruption.
Singer Precious Wilson joined the group in 1974, around the time they were working as a backing band for Boney M.
In 1977 they joined up with Boney M’s producer Frank Farian (who also went on to create Milli Vanilli) to cover Ann Peebles’ Memphis soul classic ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain’.
Peebles’ original, from 1973 was a masterpiece of stark arranging, with its use of drum machine placed alongside the Hi records house band.
The Eruption cover, engineered for disco dance floors attacked the song from a much more aggressive posture. The overall feel is faster, more electronic and more heavily produced.
Though it doesn’t have the sublime feel of the original, it isn’t without it’s own charm, enough so that it was a substantial hit in Europe and a disco favorite here in the US.
It would be their only success in the States, but they would go on to have hits in Europe into the early 80s.
Wilson went on to have a few solo hits in the UK.
I hope you dig the track and I’ll see you all next week.
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Larry
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Themocracy
Nice start for the year. Last year was a blast.