Towana & The Total Destruction / Ty Karim [2024] - Wear Your Natural, Baby / If I Can't Stop You (I Can Slow You Down) [Ace Records]

Ace Records has reissued two songs from Ty Karim digitally and on 7" vinyl.  

The A side is a 1973 outing on Romark "Wear Your Natural, Baby" (which relates to afro hair) billed as Towana & The Total Destruction (Towana was her daughter's name) along with the unreleased cover of C.B. Overton's "If I Can’t Stop You (I Can Slow You Down)" (Shock 1977). 

The latter was the prototype for her 1980 collaboration with George Griffin "Keep On Doin' Whatcha' Doin'" on Kon-Chord and then Sheridan House which was reissued by Expansion in 2019 and appears to be her last recording as she died in 1983.

Both sides, as well as "Keep On Doin' Whatcha' Doin'" Pts 1 & 2, were reissued on a Kent CD "The Complete Ty Karim: Los Angeles' Soul Goddess" in 2008.  As the title implies, it consists of all her recordings, many previously unreleased. She released a total of seven singles between 1965 and 1980, mainly on her husband's, Kent Harris, Romark label. The compilation also includes an alternate version of "Wear Your Natural, Baby" titled "Natural Do". 

Kent released a cut down version on vinyl in 2013 titled "Wear, Your Natural Baby". Way back in 2009 we did a feature on Ty  Karim.

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Details

Rating:	8.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Modern Soul
Format:	Single / Reissue
Media:	Digital / 7" Vinyl
Label:	Ace Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	23/02/2024
Key/BPM:	4B/104 / 6A/91
Price:	£1.98 / £9.99

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