Perhaps the most charming song you have ever heard, this song is your favourite auntie and uncle bringing you a hot cross bun, baked and roasted, steaming fresh from the oven. The sheer joy of listening to this song, the familiarity, the simplicity, the easy-goingness, the freedom of expression, sheer genius.
Payton really manages to say exactly what he wants to with the instruments. He so finely executes this composition, somehow over-delivering on what the scope of the song is. It’s the way the drums, the bass and the background organ so perfectly set up the sound of the organ solo in the beginning. It’s the way the melody is repeated with that long emphasised note to repeat the first melody, and how once that trust is built with the easy going melody, the freestyle then rides the waves of the groove. And then how the organ solo gives way to the greatest introduction of a French horn solo in the history music (yeah I said it).
In fact, to what can I compare the introduction of the French horn solo, what is it like? It is like getting in a fight with two people, you’re all on your own, and then your friend shows up just in time. And then the freestyle at the end is like a fresh stream of warm jacuzzi bubbles on a winters day. I don’t know who Melvin Lastie is, but I’m pretty sure he was like my favourite auntie and uncle.
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