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A Blow for Me, a Toot to You

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Released
  
1977

Release date
  
1977

Genre
  
Funk

Length
  
58:30

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Recorded
  
1977 at United Sound Studio, Detroit, Michigan Hollywood Sound Studio, Hollywood, California

A Blow For Me, a Toot to You (1977)
  
Say Blow By Blow Backwards (1979)

Artists
  
Fred Wesley, The Horny Horns

Producers
  
Bootsy Collins, George Clinton

Funk albums
  
Up for the Down Stroke, Radio Active, A Whole Nother Radio Act, Sweat Band, A Whole Nother Thang

A Blow for Me, a Toot to You is a 1977 album by funk musician Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns featuring Maceo Parker.

Contents

Reception

The album contains heavy participation by the P-Funk musical collective, including Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, and Jerome Brailey. The album also contains the heavily sampled track "Four Play" which, due to its title, prevented the track from garnering airplay when it was released as a single.

The album was produced by George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, and was reissued in 1993, first by P-Vine records in Japan, then by Sequel Records in the UK, and lastly AEM in the U.S.. The reissue contains two new remixes of the tracks "Four Play" and "A Blow for Me, a Toot to You", as well as an interview with George Clinton discussing the recording's background. Years later, WEA released both Horny Horns albums on a two-CD set, in the UK.

Personnel

  • Horns: Fred Wesley (trombone), Maceo Parker (saxophone), Rick Gardner (trumpet), Richard Griffith (trumpet)
  • Additional horns: the Brecker Brothers
  • Drums: Jerome Brailey, Frank Waddy, Bootsy Collins
  • Guitars: Glenn Goins, Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, Bootsy Collins, Phelps Collins
  • Bass: Bootsy Collins
  • Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
  • Vocals: Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Rick Gardner, Richard Griffith, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Gary Cooper, Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva, Taka Khan, Bernie Worrell, Phelps Collins, Randy Crawford, Robert Johnson

    • Samples and covers

  • Raw Fusion sampled "Peace Fugue" on their song "Freaky Note", on their album Hoochiefied Funk (1994).
  • Nas sampled "Peace Fugue" on his song "Life We Chose", on his album Nastradamus (1999).

    • Songs

    1Up for the Down StrokeMaceo Parker9:10
    2A Blow for Me - A Toot to YouMaceo Parker7:20
    3When in Doubt: VampMaceo Parker4:21

    References

    A Blow for Me, a Toot to You Wikipedia
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