The A-side recording, 'Resurrection Shuffle' is a cover version. Originally, the blues rock trio, Ashton, Gardner, & Dyke had scored a winner with this outing, and the song was later regurgitated by players running the gamut from Tom Jones to Lulu.
I literally have no back story to validate how or why this record hit the market, but it is a decent bubbleglam piece of stereo wax, albeit an unduly preposterous oddity for some. The vocalist, Misty, was a young girl whose voice seems akin to that of a prepubescent boy doped out on Ritalin. The lyrics, sung in a screeching surge of kinetic perk in conjunction with the frenetic scramble of instrumentation teeter each other out well. The cover almost serves as a logical conclusion to David Bowie's 'The Laughing Gnome.' Misty's 'Shuffle' is quite the breath of fresh air, especially when sandwiched between all of the carbon copied recitations of the original tune.
The reverse side is mildly unsettling at best, but is, in the grand scope of things, a comical backdrop to the robbing of preschool virginity. The lyrics are chanted as an exchange between Misty and an unidentified adult male who sounds like an escapee from the animation studio that produced 'Fat Albert.' The refrain, "baby I love you" is repeated incessantly, in Misty's established, squealing rasp.
Misty is no Suzi Quatro, but this early seventies garage glam hymn should fill volumes for collectors of eccentric British power pop and the few sprightly souls who held on to an old 'Milk 'N Cookies' LP from 1975. This saccharine shriek is a surefire antidote to a listless Monday evening.
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