"Baby I've Been Missing You"
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Track:Baby I've Been Missing You
was originally a soul hit for The Independents, a Philadelphia based vocal group. This was their first US Top 50 pop hit, reaching Number 41 in 1973. By 1975 their career in the charts was over
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Five years later, veteran Jamaican "uptown" producer Harry Mudie radically reworked it for this cut sung by Bunny Maloney, and released on his Moodisc imprint. When a couple of import copies hit the shops in Scotland, a mate who'd just given up University to become an A & R man was so convinced that it would be a smash that he begged his new employers to give it a UK release.
Sadly, it was not a hit.
The cover hovers over the other version and is way better than it. Terra incognita for me, and a stellar post.
Is ther Independents cut an earltish Gamble-Huff? Sure has that sound....I do actually remember the original, as Philly soul was very big at my college during the early and mid-Seventies, during my matriculation. Both cuts are terrific in incomparable ways.