This was the single most important piece of music i ever heard back as a teenager in the 80’s. This one track introduced me to what was soon to be hip hop and my music choice for the rest of my days was born.
@Man Parrish Stories 🙌 i grew up in a tiny English village. We only had radio one for modern music back then. But i remember hearing hip hop on radio one and the mention of this album called Street Sounds Electro. That was a Friday night. Now I’d been saving money and i took it and myself on the bus to Leicester city knowing that there were a couple of shops i could hopefully buy this album. I went straight to the one at the clock tower (Leicester city centre) and they had Street Sounds Electro 1/2/3 Crucial,U.K. and Easy Coast vs West Coast..I’d taken £25 which was a lot for a 13/14 year old back then and i bought the lot. I caught the first bus home. I’d been in Leicester all of 30 minutes. I got home put Crucial on my blaster and walked over to a mate so he could listen to this mind blowing music. I put hip hop be bop on and the part with the dog bark came on and I’m jumping up and down saying hear how cool it is..he look at me and said,I’ll never forget “it’s no wham is it” i could of beat the crap out of him..he said it’s not as good as wham. I played him other tracks and he still didn’t get it..let’s just say we weren’t friends much longer 😂
Not a 'white band' it was Mann Parrish himself with the help of well known mixers and music producers who did this classic joint. Those other guys were his boyfriends ...
@@AnthonyEvelyn Man Parrish and Raul Rodriguez(RIP) were a writing team/ group (called C.O.D./ Cash On Demand), they wrote this and brought in John Robie who did some of the synths and he got a writing credit too. Robie was a master with the synth, also co-wrote Planet Rock. Mark Berry engineered Hip Hop Be Bop. And Mike Wilkinson(RIP) helped a lot with editing it.
@@mick2spic The the very ame COD who produced this masterpiece..? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cmd1bpLY4M4.htmlsi=Cm_VHmGfZs8TwQ1c
Haven’t heard this in a very long time…I Co-Produced, Engineered & Mixed w/Manny & the late great DJ Raul Rodriguez at the legendary Vanguard Recording Studios on 23rd Street, NYC…Still sounds great & was a groundbreaking recording at the time !!!
Hey Mark… Thank you for getting that incredible sound that still stands up to today’s high-end digital productions. Starting it on my attract tape recorder at home and bring it to you at Vanguard Studios, treated it with a respect it deserves. Anyway, it was great that we didn’t have tons about gear because the sound stay very fresh and clean and pure. Hold up today as it did back then. Thank God for your great equalization,care for audio levels and mixing skills. You of course, are also part of the success of this record and I thank you!❤❤❤❤
I have been extremely lucky today and managed to get this on twelve inch vinyl in perfect condition for the amazing price of 50p from a charity shop . And it hasn't been of my kitchen stereo helping me cook my tea
Hey Kenneth, thanks for asking. I did ask the people that was putting it together and got a rather cold “wheel Sea”. I’m awake, gay guy. I don’t think they want me in a hip-hop museum unfortunately… No one’s called to ask if I could be in it, so I’m assuming it was a very polite NO. Sad to say. but that doesn’t rewrite history for what I’ve done… Right? As long as I do these videos and interviews and people know who I am, they could write me out of the hip-hop museum, but it doesn’t change the facts. Thanks for asking!
Ive just terned 60 and this still gives me goosebumps like the first time I heard it way way back , epic tune and probably 20 years ahead of its time ♥️♥️♥️
This Man Parrish track was on a tape I was given by my cousin back in 83. There were other tracks on it, Planet Rock, Space is the Place, In the Bottle, Jam on Revenge. That tape proper turned me onto hip hop / electro music. I was hooked after that.
Hey Richard… Did you also know that that was me and Raul doing “in the bottle”? It’s a covert cartoon but the group COD was me and Raul. So basically on that tape I had two songs! Enjoy! And thanks for the kind words.
@@manparrishstories WTF? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I know this? Why didn't I do my research! Mr. Parrish! I adore you. This is incredible! I also just learned that you made this awesome soundtrack under the monicker Forbidden Overture. Man! I HAVE to buy your book.
@@manparrishstoriesis there any chance you know the track to these lyrics from 84ish I always thought it was a track called the Boogie Man The lyrics went To all you people listening out there who always wanted to dance but didn’t dare get out of your seat and onto your feet and dance to the rhythm of this crazy beat. There’s no need to be shy there’s no need to fear every body be cool because the Boogie man is here Then we are going to rock this style from the bottom to the top with my own special brand of hip hop
@@15081972able actually I don’t. I probably know the record by hearing it but not by title. There was so much good music out then…. I love that stuff is like 40+ years ago lol. That was fun!
Couldn’t believe it when I heard this song playing on the radio in a shop I was in today, after all these years it still made me want to vibe out to it, the bass is incredible and I still have this on 12”, tuuuuune!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
Legend what else can I say, one of the defining moment in electro and Hip Hop! every original B Boy and B Girl knows this tune! glad to hear a good quality version also
As someone who has listened electro for years, it's kind of mindblowing how you can hear all the building blocks of modern electro in a 40 year old track. And unlike older techno from the early 1990's, this doesn't sound primitive at all. Just a bit slower than usually.
@@goldbullet50 oh yes mate I went to a youngers dnb jungle set yet they are incorporating not only the old school but they listen to it they appreciate good vibes just like me in the early 80's with Motown and James Brown, Clyde Subberfield the list goes on love my soul, my underground... it will live forever as long as we push the education of underground forward; My brother is a producer also and his sons are now doing the same! keep it alive enough respect, peace love and unity!!!!
This is like beginning of Hip Hop era and wow they’re white, great jam. Remember hearing this jam at Gotham West NYC and Broadway 96 NYC in the summer of ’82
Used to hear this and Hip-hop Bebop in rotation on Friday and Saturday nights on WDRQ here in Detroit by the Wizard during his 2-3 hour sets. Thanks to hm, this introduced me to Mann Parrish.
Actually, if I recall Steve strange may have happened after regardless… Did you know that I was the last person to work with Steve strange and visage? Check out man Parrish and Steve strange “she’s electric” remix.
This one always comes to mind when I recall songs I wanna play to get me going with chores or creating artwork. It’s quintessential in the many beats you hear on this track alone- never mind the amazing remixes ever since! My best memories are being in between everyone else on the basement floors, movin’ & groovin.” Some other New Yorkers might be automatically moved at the bass in there. You rocked me right Man Parrish and I’ll never forget this track especially! Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
What a absolute amazing time for music. It exploded into a bunch sub genres. We transitioned from disco to the birth of electronic which went both new wave/ snyth and electro hip hop
Man Parrish was way WAY out there in the Gay scene of NYC. It's very good most of us teenagers back then didn't see this absolutely cringey and diabolically horrific video, but we sure loved this tune which was reserved for breakdance battles. 🤫😂🤣
Well, honestly, I don’t remember hearing that song until AFTER I put my song out so it’s more of a coincidence than an inspiration. I wonder if Vince Clarke has a social media page and we can ask him? But I wasn’t that involved in “commercial“ music at that time I was more into New York underground Bands, and doing film scores and ambient electronic music. It wasn’t until I entered the “Market“ that I was aware of a lot of other songs. Definitely not inspiration from my part. Maybe we were both tuning into the same thing in the universe… I don’t know lol. Thanks for asking! Great question.
I wish I'd known about all this stuff when I was a kid. I only heard Herbie Hancock. No way this was getting played on my local AM radio small town Canada station
How cool was MP?! SOOO NYC. I bought this album in the day, and still so enjoy listening to it. It really is just wonderful when people like MP just produce an entire thing, all by themselves, and it comes out so individual and quirky.
Yes, this was one of the most important tracks for me back then, and the whole album, as well as Two Sisters, both albums I got at about the same time. Still love it☺ Got into electronic music then, of many different styles. Greetings from Denmark ☺
@@spurv I personally know Manny and have known him for years. This is 100% correct. He never made any money from it. That being said, he is a self-made millionaire. I used to work for him before he moved to Florida and to this day, I still have him on speed dial and text from time to time. Actually, I'm going to send him a HELL YEAH text now. He's seriously one of the nicest guys.
Dude is cool as hell. I spoke to him over the phone about 20 years ago cause I wanted his help with some music. Spoke for awhile and he told me how he was involved in so much of the NYC music back in the 1980s. Believe he wound up doing a bunch of freestyle tracks.
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