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Rare Soul At The Oscars - Blue Valentine

Rare Soul At The Oscars - Blue Valentine magazine cover

Interestingly a track featured in the talked about a lot film Blue Valentine ( in the list of nominations for this years Oscars) has stirred some interest over the last few months in the mainstream internet world

 

During the making of the film, the screenplay called for one of the characters to give a "song" to the character played by Oscar nominee Michelle Williams that apparently represented their relationship at that time

 

The choice of track was given to the actor Ryan Gosling . And the track he choose was "You and Me" by Penny and the Quarters which was a unreleased cut featured on the fairly recent Eccentric Soul comp : The Prix Label by the Numbero label (2007?) .

 

Given the oscar nomination, his choice and the background of this track, this has as said, led to quite a bit of interest mainstream internet wise and to add an air of intrigue to the whole story, so far it seems no one has actually id'd just who Penny and the Quarters actually were...

 

Numbero's words...

 

" Nearly thirty years after the label closed its doors, a mysterious box of tapes turned up at an estate sale in Columbus, OH. Originally thought to be the lost Prix masters, it was instead discovered to be dozens of demos, rehearsals and a few finished songs recorded in Harmonic Sounds' prime. The tape boxes were for the most part unmarked; creating a puzzle that would require some time to solve. Penny & the Quarters' "You And Me" is a random rehearsal by a group no one can remember but, one more song we wouldn't let be forgotten. -- Numbero Group"

 

cd details

 

http://www.numerogro....php?uid=00278#

 

 

film clip

 

 

 

 

 

clip of song

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FwO8SP98w



Edited by mike


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Excellent stuff. I love it when stuff like this happens because it makes people realise the quality of old music that they wouldn't ever get to hear under normal circumstances. It was a similar thing when Boots raided that Soul Jazz album for the previously generally unknown "Here Come The Girls" - Ernie K. Doe and probably pumped up Soul Jazz's sales nicely. So good for them.

 

Same for Numero. They go to a massive amount of effort to dig up this stuff so it's nice when something like this happens. Well done to all!

 

Ian D :thumbsup:

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A 21 year old indie girl I work with told me last week - I'm really into a song like the stuff you like ! - and played me this track off the net !!

Made my day - and I'd never heard it before to boot ! The Numero cds are very good tho,

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