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A-T-4 033 Wish Featuring Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long)

I've shared several Fonda Rae recordings. Rae had been the lead singer in Patrick Adams' group Rainbow Brown (It Ain't No Big Thing, Let's Go Another Round), after scoring a massive hit with Over Like A Fat Rat written by Adams friends and collaborators Leroy Burgess, Sonny T. Davenport, and James Calloway she is back featuring on a Patrick Adams/Greg Carmichael one off, a studio group they named Wish. Touch Me (All Night Long) (sometimes Tuch Me) might possibly be bigger than Over Like A Fat Rat, both have been heavily sampled but Touch Me has been covered more times. The best known cover I know is Cathy Dennis's pop version of 1990. Of course the positions of the two songs are different Over Like A Fat Rat is about reservations and dreams for some reason in my head I link it to the Burgess/Carmichael et al Bearly Breaking Even like there's an internal conflict happening, I think it's the 'getting over' bit I dunno, Touch Me (All Night Long) speaks for itself

The 1984 mixes were made by Bruce Forest

The original on Spotify and Bandcamp

In the UK Wish was dropped and Touch Me came out under Fonda Rae's name. Streetwave put out out a special version for breakdance which was a little more freestyle, in other territories it was just the dub mix (I think)

and here's footage of Fonda Rae performing Touch Me on US TV

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Over like a fat rat

Fonda Rae, Zanzibar NJ

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Fonda Rae - Over Like a Fat Rat

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As a spotlight shines on Hollywood’s shutdown, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA continue to battle it out with the studios.  We take a look back at how the film studios captured the struggle and victories of unions and labor throughout history. From the biographical tale of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa portrayed by Jack Nicholson in Hoffa, to classics like On The Waterfront starring Marlon Brando, and hits such as The Pajama Game, Norma Rae, and 9 to 5, featuring Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda. The latter film drew inspiration from the women’s movement, addressing issues of gender inequality, workplace harassment, and unequal treatment in the workforce. Take a look at the selection of films that embody labor solidarity on the silver screen.

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Spring 2005 Mixtape:

Aphex Twin Analord 1-5

Hanin Elias “Apparente Mas” (live)

Roxy Music “Avalon”

Boyd Rice “Black Light District”

Unsane Blood Run

Cure, The “Boys Don’t Cry”

Techno Animal The Brotherhood Of The Bomb

Willie Hutch “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out”

Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions “Choice Of Colors”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Cotton Balls”

Vast Aire f. El-P “Dr. Hell No & The Praying Mantus”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Drag”

Rolling Stones “Emotional Rescue”

Sway & King Tech “Enough Beef”

Common “The Food”

Slick Idiot “Forgive Me”

Sequence, The “Funk You”

Michael Gira “Game”

Tom Tom Club “Genius Of Love”

Pig Destroyer “Gravedancer”

Renix Crew f. Oxygen “Iron Shield”

Steely Dan “Josie”

Einsturzende Neubauten Kalte Sterne

Pigface “King Of Negativity”

Alec Empire “Kiss Of Death”

Sun Ra “Lanquidity”

Los Nosequien Y Los Nosequantos “Las Torres”

Usher & Ludacris & L’il Jon “Lovers & Friends”

Lo-Down Clique “Mad Fright Night”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Magic Skin”

Coti “Nada Fue En Error”

Alec Empire “Night Of Violence”

Lee Ranaldo “Notebook”

Canned Heat “On The Road Again”

Imamu Amiri Baraka “Our Nation Is Like Ourselves”

Fonda Rae “Over Like A Fat Rat”

Ministry “Primental” (live)

They Might Be Giants “Put Your Hands On The Puppet Head”

Yak Ballz “Queens Life”

Merzbow Rainbow Electronics

Deep Throat  OST “Run Linda Run”

Cop Shoot Cop “She’s Like A Shot”

Dire Straits “So Far Away”

Echoing Green “Story Of Our Lives”

Kool Keith “Takin’ It Back”

Talib Kweli “Talk To You”

Everly Brothers, The “Talking To The Flowers”

Pig Destroyer “Towering Flesh”

Gil-Scott Heron “A Very Precious Time”

Juanes “Volverte A Ver"

Jesu “We All Faulter”

Little Brother “Whatever You Say”

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth

Phil Western World’s End

Sun Ra “Yucatan” (Saturn VER)

Nas “2nd Childhood” (9th Wonder RMX)

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9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

Thanks for the tag @definitelynotagentm @fox-from-fairytale @antie23 and @wardingoffevil 🤍

Last song: The Feeling - Sammy Rae & The Friends

Currently watching: Shiny Happy People. The documentary series on the Duggar family, and can I just say: bloody hell. I've never watched their show, so I was all 😱 throughout the documentary

Currently reading: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Current obsession: Nothing in particular at the moment, especially now that Vanderpump Rules is over and I can't scream about Scandoval every week

Tagging: @brasister, @mrsgaryrennell, @aislinnstanaka, @thisiskhayeanne @hopeshoodie and @jamals-wifey

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A-T-3 177 Fonda Rae - Heobah (Hey-O-Bah)

One of the best God Boogie tracks out there. Written by Fonda Rae and Freddie Perez, and produced by Perez and Danny Weiss, with Weiss's frequent production partner David Wilkes as 'spiritual advisor' or chief joint roller as it's usually called

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Today’s compilation:

The Best of Personal Records 1989 Disco / Post-Disco / Eurodisco / Electro / Boogie

Despite only existing between around '83 to '86, the New York-based dance label Personal Records possessed an uncanny ability in churning out floor-burning bangers. In just less than four years, and without the assistance of any major label, they managed to chart twenty-eight of their own releases. That's a lot, folks!

Personal was co-founded by famed disco producer Jurgen Korduletsch and record biz executive Don Oriolo. And here's a fun bit of trivia about Oriolo: he also ran the Felix the Cat brand. It was actually his dad who created Felix—as well as Casper the Friendly Ghost—and when he died, Don took over operations for Felix. So, if you've ever wondered why Felix appeared to have this sudden resurgence in the 80s and 90s, it's because the co-owner of this excellent 80s dance label was the one who was pulling the strings! Neat, huh?

Anyway, there's few things in this world that I love more than 80s club music. Just a total hodgepodge of stuff like disco, post-disco, boogie, funk, R&B, soul, hi-NRG, electro, hip hop, dance-rock, freestyle, synthpop, house, dance-pop, and new wave, all flowing carefreely through each other. Never has music really felt more like a melting pot than when it was played on a 1980s dancefloor. Purely unprecedented peak eclecticism that I don't think we're ever going to see again.

And Personal contributed to that spirit of dynamism with their own catalog, which this compilation manages to provide a retrospective of in eleven songs. Personal's stuff lit up New York clubs, but not all of it was made by New Yorkers. In fact, four of the songs on here were actually licensed from Germany, including probably the album's most popular song, George Kranz's "Din Daa Daa," a peculiar, onomatopoeia-heavy, beatboxing precursor that was featured on the soundtrack for none other than Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. And the other three German-made tracks come courtesy of a guy named Fancy, whose "Chinese Eyes" sure as shit hasn't aged well at all lyrically, but sonically, it's something of a new wave-synthpop-Eurodisco masterpiece. Kranz's song hit #1 on Billboard's dance chart, while "Chinese Eyes" peaked at #2.

Also, do you remember that 1991 dance-pop-house piece of cotton candy fluff, "Touch Me (All Night Long)" by Cathy Dennis (I actually posted about it a while back...you think you haven't heard from Dennis since that song came out, but trust me, you have.)? Did you know it's actually a cover of a 9½-minute freestyle-electro-post-disco bop by Wish & Fonda Rae? The original's far less known than Dennis' version, but it still peaked at #5 on the US dance chart and it was also featured in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2. It's co-produced by the great and recently departed Patrick Adams (he made up half of Wish), who shows up in a couple other places on this comp too, including "Let's Change It Up" by Inner Life, a studio group fronted by Jocelyn Brown that he was also a member of.

Oh, and eminent 80s producer-remixer extraordinaire Shep Pettibone is on here as well, providing his signature sound in Clair Hicks & Love Exchange's "Push Push (In the Bush)," which, come to think of it...do you think that provided some inspiration for "What What (In the Butt)"? 😂

And one last thing! She's not on here at all, but Lisa Lisa was actually also signed to Personal Records for some time. They licensed her hit debut single, "I Wonder If I Take You Home," which Korduletsch and Oriolo both had a hand in producing, to CBS Records for a European compilation called Breakdancing, and it led to her getting signed to Columbia. Just another feather for this powerful, yet ultimately fleeting 80s dance label to wear in its cap.

Highlights:

George Kranz - "Din Daa Daa" Wish featuring Fonda Rae - "Touch Me" Fancy - "Chinese Eyes" Fancy - "Come Inside" Clair Hicks & Love Exchange - "Push Push (In the Bush)" Fancy - "Check It Out" Claudja Barry - "Born to Love" Inner Life - "Let's Change It Up"

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Touch Me § Wish & Fonda Rae