Jocelyn Brown "Somebody Elses Guy" Classic or Dud

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opinions?

― startrekman, Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Total classic. Her vocal is killer, the piano stab breakdowns are dope, the whole thing is yumm yumm yummy. I have the 12" with the acapella. Man, I love this song to death.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 28 April 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh, classic. Especially the 12", with her singing the intro really slowly.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Stone cold classic.

End of night stormer.

― oats (oats), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Classic. Manages to be exciting and also very sad. Is this the only song, sung by a woman, about how her man has left for another man? And do the majority of people who have heard it know what it's about?

― wtin, Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Is that what its about? I'd never picked up on that at all.

Cyndi Lauper's "When You Were Mine" fits that bill. Nice as it is, its not a patch on Jocelyn. Still, at least she never felt the need to do a duet with Kym Mazelle.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I always heard "Somebody Else's Guy" as a double-entendre, you could interpret it either way. For something more blatant, search "Another Man" by Barbara Mason on West End.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Barbara Mason's 'Another Man' covers the issue of her man leaving her for another man, as well as wearing her dresses, etc. It's a very very good early 80s disco song but it's not as good as the Jocelyn tracks. Hats off to Startrekman for pointing out another classic.

bah xpost, coleman beat me to it.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

SO classic.

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

the problem with startrekman's threads is that none of the tracks are ever duds!

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Is this the only song, sung by a woman, about how her man has left for another man?

But there's nothing in the lyric which suggests that. The "somebody" is non-gender specific throughout, but that's all.

There's an answer to Barbara Mason's "Another Man" on Shirley Brown's 1985 Intimate Storm album, called "I Don't Play That". It's the continuation of a soap-opera dialogue between the two, that began with Shirley's "Woman To Woman", and continued with Barbara's "She's Got The Papers, But I Got The Man" (the latter is referenced at the start of "Another Man").

There was also a cash-in answer record to "Another Man" by Tout Sweet, called "Another Man (Is Twice As Nice)", told from the perspective of the man, but it's fairly awful.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

It's true , I'm wrong – the lyrics don't specify gender. Must have been the fact they are so deliberately non-specific which led me to presume her man is gay. That and something unresolved deep in my psyche. I know and love but forgot about the Barbara Mason song, is the Shirley Brown album worth a listen?

― wtin, Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

If you like deep Southern soul, then yes - but it's not disco-fied or funk-tified in any way.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

i'll hunt it down. Cheers.

― wtin, Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

when the bass drops on the 12 after the acapella intro its just fucking ridiculous. speaker damagingly good. i could never mix this. i always compensated but was always still surprised somehow. they seem to have normalised it a bit on the cd versions i've heard.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

nothing is more classic than this song.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

i tried to make a Funky House cover of this years back

― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Stanton Warriors remix = double classic to the max. If only they were still this good.

― Tim F, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

nothing is more classic than this song.

OTM

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

i like to hear this when i'm out at some supposedly "classy" bar full of middle aged yuppies, it's a lifesaver. also "never too much" by luther vandross.

― pc user, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

you posting from 1986?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 21 December 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.discogs.com/Jocelyn-Brown-I-Wish-You-Would/release/267768

This is fantastic. I can't figure out why this is a three dollar record and her stuff on Salsoul commands so much more. Definitely worth looking into if you come across a copy. This is a Great Boogie/R&B jam.

― your original display name is still visible (Display Name), Sunday, 26 July 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

haha yeah love the bitchin cheezy chromatic harmonica solo on that one.. i have it on some poorly mastered prelude comp, would like to find a vinyl copy

― winston, Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

Jocelyn Brown on Salsoul = Patrick Adams productions = $$$$$

Never realized she is related to Barbara Roy! Wild.

― pipecock, Monday, 27 July 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

that one's on my 'want list.' i keep waiting for it to turn up in a used bin, but i might just have to order one off discogs.

for everyone who hasn't heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYfrOrOvXtI

― one time, Monday, 27 July 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

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