- 12inch
Tata Vega / Al Johnson
I've Got My Second Wind
Melodies International
- Cat No: MEL 21
- 2023-08-05
Floating Pointsによる復刻レーベル〈Melodies International〉からAl JohnsonとTom Fauntleroy作の「(I've Got My) Second Wind」の2つのレコーディングをカップリング再発。
We're glad to be back, starting off 2022 with our new reissue 12” comprising two big big club soul/disco classic versions of “I’ve Got My Second Wind”. Out late March/early April, vinyl only!
Lead singer Al Johnson and Tom Fauntleroy, two US soul & R&B greats who founded their first band at University in Washington D.C. originally wrote and released the song on Johnson’s first solo independent album “Peaceful” in 1978. They’d later go on to rerecord the track for Johnson’s follow up album on major label CBS “Back For More” in 1980 which introduced the song to a wider audience and is the version featured here on this 12”
Tata Vega, American singer from New York would go on to cover the track that same year. Starting her career in the 60s featuring in musicals and performing with various groups, she got signed to Motown by Berry Gordy on the spot who was in the audience at a concert one of Vega’s groups was performing at. Tata Vega’s version of “I’ve Got My Second Wind”, in duet with soul singer George Curtis Cameron was originally released on her fourth solo album on Motown, “Givin’ All My Love”. Reissued and now available on loud 12” for the first time!
Remastered from the tapes by the great Matt Colton, pressed in Italy at Mother Tongue, comes in printed inner and outer sleeves, out late march / early April, play loud!
Lead singer Al Johnson and Tom Fauntleroy, two US soul & R&B greats who founded their first band at University in Washington D.C. originally wrote and released the song on Johnson’s first solo independent album “Peaceful” in 1978. They’d later go on to rerecord the track for Johnson’s follow up album on major label CBS “Back For More” in 1980 which introduced the song to a wider audience and is the version featured here on this 12”
Tata Vega, American singer from New York would go on to cover the track that same year. Starting her career in the 60s featuring in musicals and performing with various groups, she got signed to Motown by Berry Gordy on the spot who was in the audience at a concert one of Vega’s groups was performing at. Tata Vega’s version of “I’ve Got My Second Wind”, in duet with soul singer George Curtis Cameron was originally released on her fourth solo album on Motown, “Givin’ All My Love”. Reissued and now available on loud 12” for the first time!
Remastered from the tapes by the great Matt Colton, pressed in Italy at Mother Tongue, comes in printed inner and outer sleeves, out late march / early April, play loud!
マーヴィン・ゲイやAORも引き合いに出されるアーバンソウル、アル・ジョンソン。彼がThe Unifics等でのパートナーで、幼馴染でもあるTom Fauntleroyと78年のソロアルバムのために書いた「(I've Got My) Second wind」の2つの録音をカップリング。A-Sideは、ベリー・ゴーディーに見出されモータウンと契約したニューヨリカンのシンガー、タタ・ベガの1980年の4thアルバム収録、G.C.キャメロンとのデュエットのカバー・バージョン。モータウンがL.A.で展開していた時期で、トリニダッド・トバコ出身でモータウン等で活躍したウィンストン・モンセクがプロデュース。アルバムの制作にも関わるアル・ジョンソンがアレンジを手掛けていてストリングス+ホーンもフィーチャリングしたホットなパーフェクト・ディスコ・チューン。アル・ジョンソンのバージョンは78年ソロの後、Columbiaと契約し再録音した80年の「Back For More」収録のバージョン。プロデュースにノーマン・コナーズを迎えたアーバンソウル。こちらはグッと落ち着いたテンポで展開していく、じっくりいい曲です。エバーグリーンな名曲。Matt Coltonによるオリジナルテープからのリマスター12インチでアナログ・リリース。 (サイトウ)