Listen: Supernatural Thing (Part 1) / Ben E. King BenEKingSupernatural.mp3
Tell me this doesn’t sound fantastic the very second it starts and I’ll tell you you’re a liar. Doesn’t even matter if you don’t prefer a particular genre of music, certain songs transcend all that. Any person can hear a seminal record regardless. Clearly this is one.
Talk about reinventing yourself – here you go. A member of The Drifters, basically a Doo Wop group in ’58, he only recorded a dozen or so songs with them before wising up to money bullshit and went solo. He hit quick with ‘Spanish Harlem’ and the hits continued. Despite all that early 60′s success dying down as a result of the British Invasion, he powered back in ’75 with this.
Yeah, it reached #1 both Pop and RnB. Great, it’s the real deal. I play it often.
Tags: Atlantic, Ben E. King, Doo Wop, RnB, The Drifters