The funk is tight, and the horns have some definite similarities with the horn arrangements that can be found on mid70s Parliament releases. No surprise at all as it happens – Walter Foster had links to the JBs, and Fred Wesley is credited as producer and arranger on this record. Walter had just a handful of 45s released over period of more than 20 years. This was his second release, some twelve years after his debut on Loma. That 45 was produced by James Brown, and I would think it is entirely possible Fred Wesley featured in the backing group.
Have a contemporary funk group ever made a record singing the praises of the orange one, I wonder? I don’t know of one and I suspect the odds are vanishingly small.
Walter Foster – The Peanut Man (We Got A Friend) 1977
The B side is a nice slower number too.
Walter Foster – It Makes You Wanna Cry 1977
Now, that’s a title that could grace a song about the orange one.
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"Have a contemporary funk group ever made a record singing the praises of the orange one, I wonder?"
No, but Snoop Dogg probably would if the price was right. There's also this artist, who was pardoned by Trump last year: https://www.complex.com/music/a/backwoodsaltar/nba-youngboy-whatever-trump-doin-good-for-the-youngins.
I like "The Peanut Man," but I think Walter Foster's lucky he never got sued by the writers of Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Fly" (1975).
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