A-Side, and even hit pole position there. B-side to another King Floyd cover (“Baby Let Me Kiss You”) was a U.K. Like Anita Ward, Fern Kinney was an unfortunate victim of the disco backlash as the 1970s made way for the 1980s, but Groove Me has aged well.
45 VINYL ANITA WARD RING MY BELL UPDATE
6 Disco hit with the title track, a disco update of King Floyd’s 1971 funky admonition. Single versions of “Ring My Bell” and “Make Believe Lovers” have been appended.įern Kinney’s Groove Me wasn’t only recorded at Malaco, but was also first issued on the Malaco label. Ward’s Deniece Williams-like vocal instrument shines on this set produced by Knight and with songwriting contributions from the great Sam Dees. Records family – “Ring My Bell” ascended Ward to the pantheon of so-called “one hit wonders.” But Songs of Love offers so much more, with an emphasis not on disco floor-fillers but rather on the beguiling ballads that make the title so apropos. Cut at Jackson, Mississippi’s Malaco Studios and released on Knight’s Juana label – part of Henry Stone’s T.K. 2 R&B smash yielded the all-time disco classic “Ring My Bell,” written by Frederick Knight (“I’ve Been Lonely for So Long”). Anita Ward became an overnight sensation thanks to the success of her debut LP, Songs of Love. But those are hardly the only recent releases from these two imprints of the Cherry Red Group.īig Break has offered two titles, both from 1979 and both with ties to legendary southern soul incubator Malaco Records and Florida’s TK Records. In recent days, we’ve turned the spotlight on a quartet of classic soul reissues, two each from Big Break Records (Arthur Prysock’s All My Life and Caston and Majors’ self-titled Motown album) and SoulMusic Records (Nancy Wilson’s Can’t Take My Eyes Off You/Now I’m a Woman and Jerry Butler’s Love’s on the Menu/Suite for the Single Girl).