Minnie Riperton - Classic or Dud?

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Come To My Garden is beautiful too, of course.

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Notable non-RC/MR Stepney off the top of my head: all Cadet-era Terry Callier, Phil Upchurch's Upchurch (wind-tunnel-in-the-middle of-a-dustbowl sound in full effect, especially on the version of "Black Gold"), the Marlena Shaw album with "California Soul," the Dells' Freedom Means, Ramsey Lewis' Cadet albums (Maiden Voyage contains a bonkers "Les Fleur"), some of the Soulful Strings stuff, the Emotions' Flowers, Deniece Williams' This Is Niecy, EW&F's Open Our Eyes and Spirit.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Stepney article from a 1970 issue of Downbeat.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

brian, Cadet & Cadet Concept s/d

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Just found out that the Shaw album, The Spice of Life, was just reissued by Verve.

I should find your Lucien thread, jaxon. His first three albums are gold but I've never heard anything that came after that.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 24 October 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

the Marlena Shaw album with "California Soul,"

I didn't know this, but it explains a lot!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Search: "Every time he comes around." Especially if you think that Minnie is just about timid r 'n' b ballads, because the track is a slice of stonkin' groovy loin-lighting grind funk.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

andy, John Lucien - any opinions?

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i have been playing Come To My Garden non-stop recently... such a solid album, so many great songs. 'whenever wherever' is the absolute peak, though - so baroque, and with those crazy skipping staccatto harmonies. the album feels like it was carved out of candy floss.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Like people like Lyn Collins, Ann Peebles, she is genius if you know what to listen to. But that doesn't mean that 80% of what she put out wasn't horrible.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

i don't know... i haven't heard much Rotary Connection (have Songs, which i'm not sure about, and 'i am the black gold of the sun', which i love, but Come To My Garden and perfect angel are both really strong albums, and adventures in paradise has lots of good stuff on it. but i also love the 2 ann peebles double CDs on Hi, and Lyn Collins' check me out if you don't know me by now album is pretty choice too.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

if anyone had an mp3 of "hangin' round the bee tree" from "Hey, Love" i'd love to hear it. my vinyl of the album skips during that one gorgeous track.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

rotary connection - hangin' round the bee tree

― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

woah, thanks!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I love "Everytime He Comes Around". She sounds soooooo sexy! "Inside My Love" too.

"Lovin' You" is probably the greatest impromptu-karaoke-to-embarass-my-friends-(okay, mostly myself)-in-public song ever.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 9 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Alex in NYC weighs in here.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 9 January 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Except for the first self-titled, you can find all the Rotary Connection albums on CD quite easily. Two releases pair albums as two-fers, and not chronologically. The toughie is the first self-titled one, The Rotary Connection, which was released as itself; it's not quite out in the realm of impossible-to-find.. yet.

I highly recommend getting these CDs, at least, even if you have to byass the first one, which is not anymore crucial than any of the others really.. except Songs which is relatively eh.

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

yr crazy. the Songs/Hey Love two-fer is amazing. the self titled one is also fantastic and for a tribe called quest fans, you'll hear the sitar sample on bonita applebaum (the reason i first started getting into RC). i see that one on vinyl probably once or twice a year. if you're gonna pass on any of them, it's obviously gotta be the christmas one.

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

I agree that the two-fer CD is amazing, but 90% of the amazingness is in Hey, Love. And i think Peace is excellent! It's a seasonal record obviously, but "Christmas Love" is one of their best songs.

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Each of the vinyl albums are equally easy to come by, which is, not that easy but not impossible.

The Rotary Connection CD, however, is really hard to find.. whereas the CDs of the rest are the easiest to find.

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

so, songs is mediocre Rotary Connection? PHEW.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

"young willing and able" on stay in love people. hot shit.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, I had no idea that Maya Rudolph is her daughter.

― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Also, reassessing Songs, that album is just as fuckin awesome as the other Rotary albums. If anything, Dinner Music stepped down a notch, although I appreciate how messy it is.

― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

As for the solo Minnie albums, they drop off pretty badly after Adventures In Paradise.

― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

But there are great songs on each one. "Young, Willing, and Able," "Can You Feel What I'm Saying," "Memory Lane," "Here We Go," etc. Can definitely understand why fans of the earlier ones would not like them. They're slick and pretty MOR.

Songs is probably my favorite RC album.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

This is nuts:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x9ZwXzdRzbU

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking the revive was Alex in NYC going through his contrarian routine.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

i cant stand 'loving you'

'inside your love' is incredible

― deej, Thursday, 24 April 2008 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

lol me 2 years ago ;_;

― The Reverend, Thursday, 24 April 2008 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

not even close to an embarrassing post by ilx standards

― deej, Thursday, 24 April 2008 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

anyone who hates "lovin' you" has a turnip for a heart.

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

Actually I can understand why someone wouldn't like it since it's so sappy and all, but it kills me to an embarrassing degree.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

Per Wikipedia "maya, maya" bit is about her daughter, how could would that be.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

god bless youtube

― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 November 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 November 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

Can't find Minnie's version on Youtube but this is my jam for all time.

Don Cornelius' voice is a thing of fucking wonder as well, 'scuse pun.

― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 November 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, that's a nice episode of "Soul Train." Saw a rerun of it a while back. Whole hour devoted to her.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 11:57 (seventeen years ago)

Also a clip of her singing "Lovin' You" and ad libbing "Maya, Maya, Maya."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

ha, quelle coincidence, i've been RINSING minnie riperton this week. i only have her les fleurs anthology though: WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?

― lex pretend, Sunday, 30 November 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

that stevie wonder clip! yay

― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 November 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)

xxpost Oh, re-reading thread, that bit's on the record?!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 12:09 (seventeen years ago)

lex, the Come To My Garden LP is lush, Perfect Angel is awes too.

― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

I just found that Stevie Wonder clip a few weeks back too. Gorgeous medley of the two songs.

― Eric H., Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

she just destroys this X^D

and sexxxxiest album cover ever rite??

― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

"will you come inside me/do you wanna ride"

UGH

― intersting moran (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:56 (seventeen years ago)

My other jam of hers that melts me to the floor, Memory Lane

― intersting moran (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:57 (seventeen years ago)

good jow ppapa weelie

― CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:18 (seventeen years ago)

esp'incsude my love" been lovin that shit

― CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:18 (seventeen years ago)

i been told i need to chek this out

― Surmounter, Saturday, 27 December 2008 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

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One baby's breath bouquet for you, Bobby-fil-A.

― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

awshucks

― Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:41 (thirteen years ago)

And a lion, too.

http://www.rapturejohnson.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Capture111.jpg

― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:42 (thirteen years ago)

That Maya gif is too sweet!

― Lenny (Crabbits), Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

not sure how I feel about this :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvngHg41QY

― The Reverend, Sunday, 26 August 2012 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Revive. Intriguing coverage on Morning Edition today. Didn't realize she died so young, after all those albums. Why have I never checked out Rotary Connection, or her solo albums?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/11/330781619/35-years-after-minnie-ripertons-death-new-fans-still-find-her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR_NMtBEj4

― dow, Saturday, 12 July 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

you need to remedy that, stat, as she is CLASSIC to the point of ridiculousness.

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Saturday, 12 July 2014 22:43 (eleven years ago)

Agreed. Her first three solo albums are perfect.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 13 July 2014 19:10 (eleven years ago)

I've been listening to that Rotary track a lot lately!

― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:28 (eleven years ago)

I need to listen to her more

― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:15 (eleven years ago)

We all should.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:59 (eleven years ago)

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1545026-1237443861.jpeg

^^ This one's an all-time fave album.

― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 12:42 (eleven years ago)

god I love that record to bits

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:16 (eleven years ago)

whenever/wherever is my jam from come to my garden

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:16 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eyd3r4Cm2A

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:17 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Just discovered Come to My Garden after learning Maurice White (RIP) played drums on it. Sick drumming too, sounds like Earl Palmer.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 04:23 (ten years ago)

Yeah, that album has the whole Ramsey Lewis Trio as the rhythm section. Charles Stepney, Minnie's former Rotary Connection bandmate and producer of the album had already worked with Lewis on several of his albums, so I guess it was his idea to ask his trio to play on this one. (And a good choice it was!) And later on Stepney produced albums for EWF as well.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 09:24 (ten years ago)

I love that whole album. That and Perfect Angel are just sublime to me (and Adventures In Paradise is pretty great as well).

― SCROTUS (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 10:18 (ten years ago)

I feel a bit envious of an era where records like Come to My Garden could get made, both as a listener and as a musician.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:51 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

I've been stuck on 'Les Fleur' for the last hour - fucking hell, what a tune.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:36 (eight years ago)

You could almost have it be on repeat for eternity. Absolutely immense.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:49 (eight years ago)

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRQCCRH13D14010D6C

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 02:42 (eight years ago)

I love this album so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLHwyxa-FA

― eddhurt, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 04:29 (eight years ago)

"les fleur" feels of kin to hazlewood/sinatra's "some velvet morning." confined classic.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 05:07 (eight years ago)

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