Irene & The Scotts I'm Stuck on My Baby

TWO BRASS-POWERED MONSTER TRACKS FROM
DEPTFORD NORTHERN SOUL CLUB RECORDS.
IRENE AND THE SCOTTS 1967 SMASH RECORDS
45 GOES FOR AROUND £150 A COPY. A DETROIT
SOUL SIDE ARRANGED BY THE LEGENDARY
DENNIS COFFEY, PRODUCED BY MOTOWN MAN
BOB BABBITT AND CO-WRITTEN BY RAY MONETTE
(LATER A MEMBER OF MOTOWN ACT RARE
EARTH). FEATURING THE MYSTERIOUS IRENE’S
PUNCHY TORCH VOCAL BACKED BY CHICAGO
SOUL BAND THE SCOTT BROTHERS. RIFE WITH
BRASS STABS AND A GLORIOUS SAX BREAK, AN
ABSOLUTE FLOOR FILLING GEM.
BACKED WITH THE CHANTELS’ INDIAN GIVER
FROM 1966, WHICH FIRST APPEARED ON THE
VERVE LABEL (A COPY OF WHICH WOULD NOW
FETCH AROUND £275 A THROW).
A SUPER-RARE SOUL SIDE FROM THE
BRONX-BASED ALL-GIRL DOO WOP POP OUTFIT
WHO FOUND THE FUNK IN THE MID-‘60S.
DELIVERED OVER A HYPNOTIC BACKBEAT, ‘INDIAN
GIVER’ IS A HORN-LADEN UPTEMPO GROOVE