Stephanie Mills – The Medicine Song

Apologies for prolonged blog absences… not for lack of thigns I want to post, lack of having a crafty 10 mins to sit down and crack one out, so to speak.

I was in Amsterdam on a work one last week, and stumbled across a veritable treasure trove of all manner of tasty vinyl at ludicrous prices. I ended up bringing some 60 records home with me… including 40 that I paid €1 each for, including lots of disco 12”s – was honestly the best crate digging experience of my life. I just kept stumbling upon treasure after treasure, and much of it minty fresh. So I’m going to be sharing some of them in the coming weeks.

This was actually a bank-breaking €4 rather than €1, but there was no way I was going to go home without this little beauty. A great, great track from 1984 on Casablanca records, with a wonderful cross over of boogie and pop sensibilities – no wonder it topped the US dance chart at the time, and even scraped into the UK top 30. There’s a great dub version on the flip too.

Disturbing fact – Stephanie was briefly romantically linked to Micheal Jackson when she was playing Dorothy in the original version of The Wiz.

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