(I Wanna) Testify by The Parliaments
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Enjoyed hearing The Dells' version for first time today so thought I'd post up the version I know.
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It began in the back room of a barbershop and turned into an international juggernaut.
http://popdose.com/soul-serenade-the-parliaments-i-wanna-testify/
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I'm reading George Clinton's autobiography right now (that dude has some stories), and while I knew that P-Funk started out as The Parliaments, for some reason I never looked them up. Big mistake. They're totally great, if in a different way from later incarnations.
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"Friends...inquisitive friends...are asking me what's...come over me." George Clinton's first masterpiece, 1967.
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