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Classic floor-filler from 1981

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Garfield Fleming - Don’t Send Me Away (Don’t Send Me Away Single) [1981]

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Garfield Fleming - Don't Send Me Away by Unidisc Music

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garfield fleming -- don’t send me away

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Garfield Fleming - Don’t Send Me Away (1981)

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A Song A Day #122 - I’ve been pruning and cleaning up many of my SoundCloud playlists recently. I have made a few public that were previously set to private. In the next few days, I will be making many more public. This morning I came upon this song in my Deep & Jazzy playlist which I am eliminating altogether. 

I remembered the tune immediately, but hadn’t listened to it in quite some time. I knew the vocal must be looped from somewhere so I started doing some digging. I found the release on Discogs. One of the comments about this particular song makes reference to “a wonderful Garfield Fleming vocal loop.” From there I plugged “Garfield Fleming I can’t live without you” into Google and came up with a YouTube video for Garfield Fleming’s Don’t Send Me Away.

I cued it up immediately. I must not have been paying close attention at first. The original and the re-edit start exactly the same except the drums on Nicholas’ version are much more crisp, but I didn’t really notice at the time.  Then some sweet background vocals come in and started I thinking “maybe this isn’t it” because I was longing for the deep mournful vocal loop I fell in love with. Then comes the chorus and “there it is!” 

This is a perfect example of what I love about sampling culture. Nicholas has isolated what he must have thought was the stand out element of of Don’t Send Me Away and then works it for all its worth. To someone like me who first heard the re-edit it’s obvious that this one phrase is the stand out element of Don’t Send Me Away. I don’t want to slight the original. It’s a great example of Modern Soul that had I run across it independently I might have fallen for immediately.

I have been turned onto countless great songs by producers sampling them to create new music. Sometimes it’s obvious immediately that the source of the original sample is a classic that is superior to the new song no matter how well the producer used, flipped, and/or chopped that sample. Other times the producer has isolated that one key element of a mediocre (or sometimes horrible) original that is pure gold but wasn’t truly appreciated until it had been isolated and shined up for everyone to hear. In this particular instance I suspect that I will grow to love Don’t Send Me Away even more than the re-edit. 

The best example I can think of to highlight this process is Teddy Pendergrass’ You Can’t Hide From Yourself, a disco classic from 1977. I was led to the original by way of DJ Sneak’s You Can’t Hide From Your Bud, a house classic from 1997. I loved DJ Sneak’s version right away. I knew that he obviously sampled and chopped up a disco song, but I had no idea what one at the time. When I eventually heard Teddy Pendergrass’ original I liked it but preferred DJ Sneak’s reworking of it. Over the course of repeated listens I grew to love the original even more. I’ll see if the same thing comes to pass with these two songs.

(Nicholas)

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Don't Send Me Away