New Dance!...and Funky Good Advice

I've been looking for a cheap copy of this record for a good long while. Not that it shows up all that often, but when it does, it commonly goes for $60 to $80. Which, much more often than not, is enough money to remind me that I need to pay the bills.

Anyway, this is my score of the month. A totally beat up copy of a great two-sider that looks like it shouldn't even play through. But it does [ha!]. And even better, a little cleaning made it sound quite acceptable [ha! ha!].

Hope ya'll enjoy......

Before You Get Married

Rare Back And Stretch

Be somebody...

Here's the a-side of the Mckinley Sandifer 45 I posted fairly recently.....perhaps now you'll understand why it took me several months to flip the record over.

You're gonna like this one.

She don't have to be good lookin'.....

This 45 is so good that after several months of playing the hell out of a-side I finally flipped the stupid thing over and found....another song I'd been seriously looking for. I never dreamed the one backed the other.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about McKinley Sandifer. One of these days I need to do some reading about the Chicago scene. That's undoubtedly where this was recorded. Sorry if that sounds lame, but as I've said before, the further away from New Orleans I get, the less I know.

Kind of hard to say, but I think there are 5 or 6 singles by Sandifer on almost as many fairly obscure labels [Sand and Sand Ltd are two different labels?]. Three of them are nice funk outings, one is not at all to my taste and goes for a healthy chunk of change....and another is a version of "There's Something In a Man"???....so maybe that means there are only five instead of six?

I think Sandifer is still alive. He could be the same person who now plays sax with Christian bands.

Btw, through no fault of my own I'm having to use my portable player for the time being. I think the rip sounds fine, but let me know if you disagree and I'll see what I can do about it.

Hope ya enjoy the tune...it's the b-side.