Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl (1973) [Jazz][mp3 320][h33t][schon55]

Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl

Audio CD: January 27, 2009

Original Release Date: October 1973

Format: Original recording remastered

Label: Verve

Bitrate: 320 kbps



Quincy Jones followed up Smackwater Jack and his supervision of Donny Hathaway's Come Back Charleston Blue soundtrack with this, a mixed bag that saw him inching a little closer toward the R&B-dominated approach that reached full stride on the following Body Heat and peaked commercially with The Dude. That said, the album's most notorious cut is The Streetbeater, better known as the Sanford & Son theme, a novelty for most but also one of the greasiest, grimiest instrumental fusions of jazz and funk ever laid down, while its second most noteworthy component is a drastic recasting of Summer in the City, as heard in the Pharcyde's Passin' Me By, where the frantic, bug-eyed energy of the Lovin' Spoonful original is turned into a magnetically lazy drift driven by Eddie Louis' organ, Dave Grusin's electric piano, and Valerie Simpson's voice. (Simpson gives the song a Summertime-like treatment. )

Between that, the title song (a faithfully mellow version, with Jones' limited but subdued vocal lead), a medley of Aretha Franklin's Daydreaming and Ewan MacColl's First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and a light instrumental, roughly half the album is mood music, and it's offset with not just The Streetbeater but a large-scale take on Manteca, a spooky-then-overstuffed Superstition (where the uncredited Billy Preston, Bill Withers, and Stevie Wonder are billed as three beautiful brothers), and the Streetbeater companion Chump Change (co-written with Bill Cosby).

Enjoy it!



Personnel:

Ray Brown

Chuck Rainey

Bob James - keyboard

Grady Tate - drums

Dave Grusin

Carol Kaye - bass guitar



Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl Tracks:

01 Summer In The City 4:04

02 Eyes Of Love 3:32

03 Tribute To A. F. - RO 7:13 Album Only

04 Love Theme From "The Getaway" 2:35

05 You've Got It Bad Girl 5:47

06 Superstition 4:30

07 Manteca 8:39 Album Only

08 Sanford & Son Theme/The Streetbeater 3:06

09 Chump Change 3:22