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The Shacks - Smile Now, Cry Later 03:01 | | 2. Bobby Oroza - Should I Take You Home 04:01 | | 3. 79.5 - My Dream 03:21 | | 4. Holy Hive - If I Could See You Now 02:56 | | 5. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Get Down 02:27 | | 6. Lee Fields & The Expressions - The One Who's Hurting Is You 02:22 | | 7. Lizette & Quevin - Talk To Me 02:58 | | 8. Paul & The Tall Trees - Rain Makes Me Blue 02:54 | | 9. Brainstory - Runaway 03:04 | | | | | | R E L E A S E N O T E S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | | ------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | | | | | | Big Crown Records is proud to present Dear Sunny... a compilation of | | Sunny & The Sunliners covers by Big Crown artists. | | | | Since the first time we heard "Should I Take You Home" by Sunny & The | | Sunliners, we have been avid fans. That record, which we were | | introduced to on MF Classy Chris' now legendary mixtape, The Time Is | | Right, set a lot of things in motion. It started of course with | | tracking down copies and collecting all of Sunny's records for our | | personal collections. That quickly turned into the desire to reissue | | some of his vast catalog on our label for the rest of the world to | | hear. We got in touch with Sunny and his son David and brought the | | idea to them. It took a lot of phone calls, a visit to their home in | | San Antonio, and three more years of calls and emails to convince | | them that our New York record label was a good place for them to | | entrust their music. After getting to know each other well enough | | Dave said, "You have been calling us non-stop for more than three | | years, you MUST mean what you are saying" and with that, we signed a | | deal to do a reissue project on Big Crown. | | | | We then flew out to San Antonio again, this time with a scanner and a | | videographer. We sat down with Sunny to interview him, went through | | his vast collection of photos, and talked about his life and career. | | Sunny was even kind enough to let us film him performing acoustic | | versions of a few songs. We used all of that material for our 2017 | | compilation, Mr Brown Eyed Soul. That release is our highlight reel | | of Sunny's Soul tunes. Looking back at the response to that | | compilation, it is safe to say that we achieved our goal of | | connecting a whole new audience to Sunny's incredible music. We also | | made his rarest records readily available to collectors at a price | | that wouldn't empty their pockets. The concept for Dear Sunny... came | | to us right after we signed the deal. We wanted our artists to cover | | his music as a tribute to him. | | | | Three years later and on the cusp of Sunny's 77th birthday we are | | ready to release this homage to the living legend, San Antonio's | | finest, Mr. Brown Eyed Soul, Sunny Ozuna. Everyone here stepped up to | | fill very big shoes doing these covers. Bobby Oroza teamed up with | | Cold Diamond & Mink and made a smashing version of "Should I Take You | | Home". The Shacks took on the anthemic "Smile Now, Cry Later" while | | Holy Hive covers "If I Could See You Now" building off the uptempo | | dance floor energy of the original. Paul & The Tall Trees bring a | | crooning vibe to "Rain Makes Me Blue" and Brainstory turned "Runaway" | | into a haunting ballad reminiscent of early Lee Hazelwood | | productions. Some of these turn out to be covers of covers. Bacao | | Rhythm & Steel Band takes on the funk collector's holy grail from | | Sunny, his cover of War's "Get Down" while 79.5 take Sunny's version | | of "My Dream" and change the vibe from a floating love song to theme | | music for the brokenhearted. Mr. Lee Fields does "The One Who's | | Hurting Is You" and the latest addition to the Big Crown Roster, | | Lizette and Quevin, do a rendition of the song that brought Sunny to | | Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1963 and catapulted him to fame; | | his cover of Little Willie John's "Talk To Me". | | | | So as the letter begins, "Dear Sunny..." we hope that you enjoy this | | homage Sir. We wish you a very Happy Birthday and many more. Thank | | you for all the music you have given all of us, it has been a | | pleasure to work with you and to get a chance to know you and your | | family. We will keep calling Dave every other week trying to get you | | in the studio with Leon to record some new material until it happens | | or you flat out tell us no...but all jokes aside, thank you Sunny. | | This was all really a dream come true for us. | | | | | | YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! | | | | | | . . | | |\/\/| | | |____| | |------------------------------=---=-======-=---=-------------------------| |===/\===============================SOUNDz==========================/\===| '--/__\--------------------------=-2013-2021-=----------------------/__\--'