Now That We Found Love
Third World
Journey To Addis, 1978
I’ve been chasing a clean ($1) copy of this record for a while and finally came up on it on my Thankgiving trip to Cleveland. Like so many other tracks, I was first exposed to this song through hip hop. The intro to Biz Markie’s “Spring Again” (posted above) opens with the “Come On Baby!” from 0:55 of this song and it (along with the horn sample to Big Daddy Kane’s “Young Gifted and Black” among many others) always brought forth the phrase, “I want music that sounds like THAT” as i sat in my room in my parents house in 8th - 10th grade. I don’t remember where i was the first time that the “Come On Baby!” jumped out this song and grabbed me but that was when the quest began.
I remember walking to a SummerStage concert one or two summers ago and passing the roller skating circle. If you’ve passed it, you know what i’m talking about. It’s a motley crew. 40-something white and black hippies, pretty gay dudes, old dreadlocked cats, a couple guys that look like they haven’t gotten out from under a weight bench in a LONG time, everybody roller-dancing in a circle and smiling like they know something you don’t know. As i approached, the DJ mixed into this song and as it hit “Come On Baby!”, i was keenly aware that i was probably out-smiling the people i loved to mock (in my head at least).
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