PARLIAMENT - COME IN AND OUT OF THE RAIN 45 RPM INVICTUS RECORDS MINT- 1972

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ROCK/HARD ROCK/GARAGE     POP/SURF     R&B/MOTOWN/JUKEBOX SERIES     COUNTRY     BLUES/JAZZ

THE PARLIAMENT

45 RPM

RARE
IN THIS CONDITION

INVICTUS RECORDS
9123

LAST COPY

A-SIDE

COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN

PEAK  ****  BILLBOARD R&B HOT 100  ****  WEEKS ON CHART

B-SIDE

LITTLE OLE COUNTRY BOY

CONDITION:  VINYL  MINT-

CONDITION:  LABEL  MINT-

COMES  with  COMPANY SLEEVE  MINT-  and  PLASTIC COVER

FORMAT: 7" 45 SINGLE  
ARTIST:  THE PARLIAMENT 
TITLE:  COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN / LITTLE OLE COUNTRY BOY    
LABEL:  INVICTUS    
NUMBER:  9123   
LABEL DESCRIPTION:   STOCK COPY
GRADE:   MINT-   (My  "Personal Collection")    LOOKS "UNPLAYED"
ADDITIONAL NOTES  ORIGINAL COPY-NOT A REISSUE!!!
ADDITIONAL INFO: 

 Highly infliuntial and Prolific Funk Band of nearly 40 musicians Spearheaded by George Clinton
                                         Producer/Songwrider/Lead Singer  founder Doo-Wop Group  The Parliaments  in  1955  Newart, New Jersey
                                         relocated in Detroit, Michigan  1968

The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton was group leader and manager, and part owner of the barbershop where the group convened to entertain customers. The group later evolved into the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, which found success in the 1970s.

The group was originally based on Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, but by the 1960s had developed a unique sound based on emerging styles of soul and funk music, with a notable penchant for bizarre lyrics. The group struggled for hits during most of the 1960s, recording singles on a variety of small record labels. They switched labels many times, and released several double-sided singles without success, including "Poor Willie" (on Apt Records), "Lonely Island" (on Flipp) and "Heart Trouble" (on Golden World Records). Eventually, Clinton gained employment at Motown Records as a songwriter and producer, making weekly trips to Detroit to produce for The Pets, Roy Handy, and other acts. In 1967 the Parliaments released "(I Wanna) Testify" on Revilot and finally achieved a hit single, with the song reaching #3 R&B and #20 Pop on the Billboard charts. In reality, Clinton was the only member of the Parliaments to appear in the song, as the other members were unable to travel to Detroit for the recording session (session singers and musicians rounded out the recording). To capitalize on the single's success, Clinton put together a backing band for a tour, expanding the Parliaments to the five singers plus five backing musicians.

After the success of "(I Wanna) Testify", Clinton became embroiled in a contractual dispute surrounding the bankruptcy of Revilot Records and temporarily lost the rights to the name "The Parliaments." In order to continue recording for other labels, Clinton renamed the entire ensemble Funkadelic (a name coined by bassist Billy Bass Nelson). Clinton positioned Funkadelic as a funk-rock band featuring the five backing musicians with the five Parliaments singers as uncredited guests. When Revilot declared bankruptcy the Parliaments were sold to Atlantic Records, and Clinton abandoned doo-wop to avoid working for Atlantic. Even with Funkadelic operating as a recording and touring entity, in 1970 Clinton relaunched the Parliaments as a new R&B-based funk band, now known as Parliament. The lineup still consisted of the five original singers plus the five backing musicians, with the two acts signed to different labels and marketed as performing different types of funk.

Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including "Testify," "The Goose," "All Your Goodies Are Gone," "Fantasy Is Reality," "Good Ole Music," "I Can Feel The Ice Melting," "What You Been Growing," "I'll Wait," and "That Was My Girl." In 1995, many of the original Parliaments tracks were reissued on the Goldmine/Soul label on the album Testifyin'.

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