![]() ![]() Meet you for that function after the jump! It's heard here in both instrumental and vocal renditions. "Don't Mess with My Weekend" continues the party-time groove, as does "Night Fo' Last," on which the H-D-H team tried to recapture the "Function" magic. Shorty is best known for the percolating "Function at the Junction." That irresistible invitation to the dance (co-written with Eddie Holland and produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier) appeared as a single in 1966 before finding a home on the Here Comes the Judge LP. That means you'll find two full LPs here, plus the stereo debut of a track first unearthed in 2010 in mono, and a new stereo mix of one single side. The anthology doesn't include every track recorded at Motown by Shorty, but rather his complete stereo masters as issued on the Soul imprint. If you like your Motown off the beaten path, you're in the right place. Here Comes.Shorty Long: The Complete Motown Stereo Masters, the latest release in Ace Records' ongoing series of vintage Motown platters, serves up Long's two solo albums (1968's Here Comes The Judge and 1969's The Prime of Shorty Long) plus two bonus tracks on one CD (Kent/Ace CDTOP 369) and offers ample evidence of a singular, if short-lived, talent. That single arrived in 1964, but Gordy didn't release a Long solo album until 1968, just one year before the artist died at the age of 29 in a boating accident. ![]() Harvey Fuqua brought Long to Motown with him from Tri-Phi, and Long was eventually selected by Berry Gordy to inaugurate the new Soul label, designed to showcase the funkier side of the Sound of Young America. Frederick Long's nickname "Shorty" was ironic considering his surname, but the diminutive pianist, songwriter and vocalist was indeed a mere 5'1". ![]()
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