from the 12” single, West End Records, 1980:In times of true need, any joint will do, for sure, but you got to improve on your style if loose is the problem there; our dear sister Miss Kate, former queen of the “chicken bone”, has so developed her joint-rolling abilities over the last few years that she deserves some credit---I think a shout-out on some tiny pirate music blog will do (love u gurl). This track is further proof of writer & producer Arthur Russell’s uncompromising genius in the studio, not to mention Larry Levan’s stellar remixing abilities, a perfect storm of lusty breaks, rubbery bassline (initially plucked out on a cello), and a sultry diva named Melvina Woods delivering one of the cheekiest & dirtiest double entendres in disco history, “…is it all over my face...I’m in love dancing; is it all over my face...you caught me love dancing…” The story of how this track came to become the dancefloor monster you hear here is the very story of post-54 nightlife in NYC itself, Russell having met co-composer Steve D’Aquisto at one of Mancuso’s infamous loft parties, and the song got its real underground legs from Levan’s constant spinning of it at the Garage; that’s Mr. Russell himself jamming on the electric keys, laying down some seriously jazzy chord progressions, oft-sampled in the years after its release. Famed composer Philip Glass was once quoted as saying of Arthur’s abilities, “…this was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one on this earth has ever done before, or will ever do again…” Word.
