DESIRES - BLACK GIRL


Any soul collector who went through stacks of 45s in the 70s and 80s will remember encountering a strange record of which there were dozens of unplayed copies almost stuck together.  This is how I found this unusual single in a Chicago wax shop when I lived there in the early 80s.  At first I thought it must be something dreadful; there were so many copies, and so cheap!  (I think I paid a buck for it.)  I took a chance and, while it's no masterpiece, it was far from dreadful.  Here's the mysterious "Black Girl" by a group called the Desires (apparently no relation to the doo-wop group of the same name).  Could the co-writer "McDaniels" possibly be Eugene McDaniels?





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