Little Beaver - Party Down (Black Vinyl Edition)

Real Gone Music

£35.17

Format: Vinyl
Catalogue No.: RLGM14861PMI
Barcode: 848064014867
Release Date: Sep 2022
Genre: Soul / R & B / Funk

Willie Hale a.k.a. Little Beaver (so dubbed as a child because of his prominent front teeth) was one of the extraordinarily talented musicians Henry Stone assembled at his Hialeah, FL-based T.K.
Records label and its assorted imprints. Among the artists who recorded for Stone were K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McCrae, Betty Wright, and Benny Latimore…and
backing them on a lot of those records was Hale, laying down mellow ‘n’ funky, jazz-influenced licks on his hollow-body Gibson. Hale’s talent was so distinctive that when Stone finally let Hale step out of the studio shadows to record his own album on the Cat imprint, the effects were immediate and long-lasting. Featuring contributions from Thomas, Wright, Latimore, and Jaco Pastorius (under the name Nelson “Jocko” Padron), 1974’s Party Down scored a #2 hit with its title track and has been repeatedly sampled by latter-day rap artists ranging from People Under the Stairs to Jay Z. himself (the “Party Life” track on his American Gangster album). Our Real Gone black vinyl reissue of this nonstop groove-athon features a remastering by Mike Milchner at SonicVision…an enduring classic!

SIDE ONE
1. Party Down
2. Party Down (Part Two)
3. Money Vibrations
4. Get into the Party Life
SIDE TWO
1. I Can Dig It Baby
2. Let the Good Times Roll
3. Let’s Stick Together