(A continuing series on music recently discovered that I never heard the first time around.)
Yet more from the Holland-Dozier-Holland stable, and we've finally reached Honey Cone. Theirs was probably the high water mark for Hot Wax/Invictus when they hit the top of the US charts in 1971 with Want Ads (which I'm not sure was a hit outside the US). But that's not what we're here for today. Abrogating what I said yesterday, The Day That I Found Myself is a song that grew on me over a long period of time in the last six months or so. Another spoken-word intro, with words that might sound a little basic, but this was after all early days for feminism. It's catchy, but it was the harmonies that finally tipped the balance for me.
Their US chart trajectory was fairly typical for an act without a sustained career and, at #23, this was at the back end of that chart run.
Honey Cone 1970s singles
1970 Take Me with You (Hot Wax, US#108)
1970 When Will It End (Hot Wax, US#117)
1971 Want Ads (Hot Wax, US#1, Wgtn #39)
1971 Stick-Up (Hot Wax, US#11)
1971 One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I (Hot Wax, US#15, Wgtn #38)
1972 The Day I Found Myself (Hot Wax, US#23, Wgtn #36)
1972 Sittin' on a Time Bomb (Waitin' for the Hurt to Come) (Hot Wax, US#96)
1972 Innocent Til Proven Guilty (Hot Wax, US#101, Wgtn #44)
1972 Ace in the Hole (Hot Wax)
1973 If I Can't Fly (Hot Wax)
1976 Somebody Is Always Messing Up a Good Thing
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