Heavy & Funky Side From Across The Pond

• Listen to this song on youtube: The Crunch
• Listen to these 45s in a Spotify playlist here  with other 45s from the blog (though note, spotify doesn’t have all / many of the songs featured on the site so some playlists may be incomplete or feature slightly different versions than the original 45s I’m referring to here.
• This song is available on Musical Episode #013: Singles Mixer v. 4

So I’m not going to make any apologies for the long delay between posts but just to let you know, I love this blog and will keep at it as time allows.  Thanks for keeping your ears and eyes out to learn about or share the love of some 45s!

Today’s record deviates in a number of ways though two stand out for me.  It’s place in time- it’s from a later time period than I usually cover, the late 70’s and the country of origin, the UK.

One of the things I like to do (in my very tiny little way) with this blog is try to help connect the dots and create a landscape to help understand the way in which American soul music developed.  How the music developed over time and geography, between cultures and classes, across boundaries and between individuals.  So I know adding a record like The Crunch doesn’t help too much toward that end. 

BUT LISTEN TO HOW AWESOME THIS 45 IS!

I picked this record up in Antwerp about 8 years ago and it’s been a favorite of mine ever since.

THE RAH BAND was actually  no band at all instead it was the studio project of a one  Richard Anthony Hewson (R.A.H…) who played all the instruments in the studio and though he used keyboards and effects The Crunch was made with no help from synthesizers.

Hewson had a pretty distinguished career as an arranger working with some English garage group who covered American R&B called The Beatles among many others.

Not an uncommon record by any measure as it charted in the UK but something I’d been wanting to share with those who may not know it for some time.

Hope you enjoy and I hope to be able to post some more records very soon!

Happy Holidays,

-Snack Attack

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