“Funkytown” by Lipps Inc. was the very first record I ever bought and I still have it (somewhere). I was 11 years old and I remember standing outside the short-lived record store in my town next to Bella’s Restaurant, working up the nerve to go inside because it was all big (i.e. high school) kids in there. I recall a giant poster in the window advertising Led Zeppelin’s In Through The Out Door that I stared at until I forced myself to go inside. I asked if they had it and the kid behind the counter rolled his eyes, pulled the 45 off the shelf behind him and said “65 cents.” I plunked down every coin I had, grabbed it and ran. I was now a record collector.
So this one in the photo is a massive Mexican remix called “Pueblo Funky.” I’ve never managed to make it all the way through; nearly 13 minutes of “Funkytown” is an endurance test.
