rob5airborne

That's interesting because he told me he found it in a pile of Arthur Prysock white labels. He said that disc was also a white label but had no artist written on it, but it did have a hand written title which was, "If I were a boy." I'd love to get to the bottom of this story because its been bugging me for over 30 years. I'll have to get the thumb screws out and water board him next time I see him!

I heard this track played by Dave Thorely at an allnighter at the Ritz in the 90s. He covered it up and wouldn't tell me what it was at the time. Many years later, I was heading up security at Yogi Haughton's Scottish Soul Weekend. I asked Dave the story behind the track. This time Dave told me the story. He said he was in a record shop in the States going through the boxes and he found a stack of white labels. They were all Arthur Prysock tracks. In amongst them was a white label which had no artist name on it but it had "If I were a boy" written on the label. Dave bought it, spun it, and found it was this track. Nowhere in the lyrics does it have "If I were a boy." Dave said it sounded like Arthur Prysock and was in a stack of Arthur Prysock white labels so he assumed it must be an Arthur Prysock track. Dave tracked down some of the band members who played for Arthur and some of the producers and sound engineers who produced his records. None of them knew the track, so it's a bit of a mystery. At a guess, I reckon Arthur Prysock probably heard the Allan Scott album track "When I needed a woman," liked it, recorded it, but the record company decided it wasn't going to be a hit so binned it before it even got pressed as a demo which is why we think Dave's copy is a one of a kind. It's a few years since Dave told me this so there might be some more information about it now but this is as much as I know. No matter who sings it or what it's called, it's an absolutely blinding track!