The Invitations - Look On The Good Side / They Say The Girl’s CrazyThe Invitations began in the mid 60s and had various lead singers before Lew Kirton came along in 1973. Lew is the vocalist on both Look On The Good Side and They Say The Girls Crazy from 1974, re released here for the first time. The original pressings were on Silver Blue Records, a label set up by songwriter producer Joel Diamond. Both songs are arranged and co produced by Bobby Martin in Philadelphia and have the full Philly sound. Lew would later

this new album may show a side of him that people haven’t heard before but he sees it as the fullest picture yet - and attentive listeners will have noticed this musical tendency before

Marshall Jefferson

Introducing UTSOFF - a special series that builds on the label’s forward-thinking ethos when it comes to house music from across the spectrum

a wayfaring outsider on a journey side by side with players like Bill Fay

This past summer we finally had the opportunity to get together with Yousef face-to-face at a coffee shop in Istanbul's central Istiklal road together with our friend Anas El Horani

incorporating a catchy organ bass to accompany her soulful

“I think our music is all about moods and feeling but hopefully it will get as weird as it possibly can

Falling into the unfortunate category that slips uneasily between soul and jazz

With this Best of album

the Ives brothers see this album as their most complete work

plus two choice selections on the slip

but he was continually met with dead ends