You Need A Change Of Mind
Brooklyn Express
12″ Single, 1982
BC Records

This is one of those mysterious New York club classics. I had always thought it was just a re-edited version of Eddie Kendrick’s “Girl You Need A Change Of Mind” (that came out 10 years earlier) under a different name but it appears that I was wrong.

I’m just researching this for the first time right now and apparently a Yugoslavian guy named Began Cekic was behind Brooklyn Express and BC Records. He worked with Tee Scott and there is one short interview with Scott that seems to be everyone’s reference point on the web. Scott indicates the records were of dubious legality but says “Of course he did cover records, really because he didn’t sample anybody else’s records – it wasn’t possible then, he just did things that sounded close to them.” As discussed in this post, I’m pretty sure re-edits were happening at that point but it sounds like Cekic wasn’t doing them.

“You Need A Change of Mind” is the B-Side of this 12 inch. The A-Side is “Back In Time” which is a starts out sounding just like the B-Side but eventually morphs into what sounds like The Fatback Band’s “Do The Bus Stop” and then into some combination of the two with the bass line from “Bra” by Cymande. That side is definitely re-played and not just a reconstruction of pre-existing records, supporting what Scott said.

That leaves me to wonder who his musicians were and who’s singing on this record. Does anyone know more about this?

Songs are available for two weeks.

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