Boogie Friday
The Womack family is steeped in soul music history. Brothers Cecil and Bobby got their start in the music business from Sam Cooke and after his tragic death Bobby married Sam's widow and Cecil married his daughter Linda. This meant that Bobby was Cecil's brother and step-father-in-law, while Cecil was Linda's husband and step-uncle or something like that. Sounds like a cheesy Mexican soap opera to me. Bobby became a bit of a soul music legend himself of course, but Linda and Cecil first made a name for themselves as songwriters, notably penning the dreamy "Love TKO" for Teddy Pendergrass. They didn't release a record as Womack & Womack until the sublime "Love Wars" album in 1983. "Teardrops" is from the almost-as-sublime 1988 album "Conscience" which has a warm and intimate charm that comes from a family making music together, even an uptempo number like this one has an easy-going vibe to it that makes it very nice to groove along to. This was a monster hit in the UK, getting to #3 on the pop charts, but doesn't appear to have done anything in America which I find incredible. "Conscience" isn't even in print in this country - a shocking state of affairs. Shame on you, America. In a quest to answer the "where are they now?" question I discovered that Cecil, Linda and their seven children are now living in Africa under the name of The House Of Zekkariyas. How odd.
This the long and extra groovy 12" version which I spent many a night shaking my tail feather to back when my hips were a bit more limber. Ahh, those were the days.
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Teardrops - Womack & Womack
14 Comments:
That link gives me a 404. "Where's customer service; I'd like to make an exchange."
Which link?
The song link doesn't work is what I think he means.
-Juelz Santana
Really? It works fine for me.
Track won't d/l for me either which is a bummer, my wife loves that track!
Bum! I'm getting an "IE won't open this link, bugger off" message.
Hmmm, this is strange. I've added hotlink protection to stop naughty people but that shouldn't affect downloading directly from my site, and I can download the track no problem so i don't know why you lot can't. Anyone else out there who HAS managed to?
Doesn't work with Firefox either. Annoyingly.
Never had any trouble before the host switch, mind.
- Richard.
It's working for me now which should make my wife happy, thanks for taking care of this!
Whatever you did must've worked--before, I was able to PLAY the song through Safari, but not download it to my drive. Now I just downloaded it.
Always glad to make someone else's wife happy. ;-)
Hey, this is anonymous #1 above, who posted about the 404: yes, it was the song d/l link which didn't work, and it does now. Thanks. (Also: that's a fun track.)
As an aside, I use Moz & Firefox, both with referers turned off. That sometimes will prevent me accessing pages. It kills everything coming from fortunecity sites, which usually isn't a bad thing. I can't remember what was the most recent big site affected by it, though there have been some.
Have you heard a version of this song performed by Love Station? Joey Negro did a fabulous, discofied remix of it that frequently appears on many of my disco house mixes. Let me know if you want me to send you a copy.
No I haven't, but anything Joey Negro is always worth a listen. I'd love to hear it.
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