Margie Joseph – My Love
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Greetings all.
If you follow my show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio, you may have seen that the DJ premium I put together for this year’s fundraising marathon was dedicated to soul and funk artists covering 70s AM gold.
I’ve made collecting such records something of a sideline in the last few years, and today’s selection is a fine example of the subgenre (and was included on that premium CD).
Margie Joseph was a Mississippi-born singer who recorded a bunch of singles for Okeh and Volt in the 60s and a few albums for Volt in the early 70s, before moving on to record for Atlantic and their subsidiaries into the late 80s.
Today’s selection hails from her 1974 ‘Sweet Surrender’ LP, which contains many such covers, including two Bread tunes, a very early cover of Billy Joel’s ‘He’s Got a Way’ and the tune I bring you today, Paul McCartney and Wings’ ‘My Love’.
Back in the early 70s, when I was deep inside the AM radio thing, I was not a huge fan of the original Wings version of ‘My Love’, put off by Paul’s ‘whoa whoa whoa’s in the chorus (though it’s fair to say that the song has grown on me in the ensuing decades.
Margie Joseph, backed by a solid band of NY and Philly studio pros gives the song a smooth, pretty reading, treating the melody gently, and finessing the chorus.
The overall effect is as if the song had been written for her.
I dig it a lot, and I hope you do too.
I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all next week.
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Keep the faith
Larry
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