{"id":7048,"date":"2017-04-11T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:30:45","slug":"new-birth-its-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7048","title":{"rendered":"New Birth – It’s Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – New Birth – It’s Impossible (LP edit) MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – New Birth – It’s Impossible (45 edit) MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few years back I was down in DC with the fam, doing the sightseeing thing with a couple of (mandatory) digging stops. We had the Sirius \u2018Soultown\u2019 station on, and my ears perked up when the record you see before you (which I\u2019d never heard before) came on the radio.<\/p>\n

It took me a few seconds to get into the groove, no doubt caused by my mind fixating on the original hit version of the song, which was by Perry Como.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once I got past that, I was kind of blown away.<\/p>\n

I stopped into my fave DC record spot – Memory Lane<\/strong><\/a> – and asked my man Marshall<\/strong> is he had a copy for me. They only had one, and it was beat, but I bought it anyway.<\/p>\n

So, I get home, decide I want the album, find one on Ebay, and get that.<\/p>\n

Then, a few weeks later, I’m looking for something else, and discover that I already had a copy of the 45 (close to mint condition), and realize (yet again) I have way too many records.<\/p>\n

Anyway…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The idea of a soulful version of \u2018It\u2019s Impossible\u2019 seems\u2026ahem\u2026impossible (or at least improbable), but sometimes the right combination of talents can take a song and lift it right out of a familiar frame, turning it into something entirely new.<\/p>\n

New Birth<\/strong> were the vocal adjunct of the mighty Nite Liters<\/strong>, which started out as the brainchild of Vernon Bullock<\/strong> and the mighty Harvey Fuqua.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their self-titled debut LP had come out earlier in 1971 (and garnered little notice). \u2018It\u2019s Impossible\u2019 was included on their sophomore effort \u2018It Ain\u2019t No Big Thing But It\u2019s Growing\u2019 alongside covers of tunes by Bread, the Five Stairsteps and the Jackson Five.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group lays down a groove, with the vocal starting with a high female voice. Things move to the next level when a male singer comes in with a more traditionally soulful delivery, backed by the entire group\u2019s harmonies.<\/p>\n

Despite the ghost of Perry Como lurking in the wings, the New Birth version transcends the original completely.<\/p>\n

It was New Birth\u2019s first hit, grazing the R&B Top 10 and the Pop Top 40 in the Fall of 1971.<\/p>\n

The group would go on to have more than a dozen hits between 1971 and 1979.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very cool tune (I\u2019m including the LP mix of the song that runs almost half a minute longer than the 45 edit) and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

See you on Friday<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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