View cart “The Spur” has been added to your cart.
View cart “Strata Records (The Sound of Detroit) (Volume 1)” has been added to your cart.
Dresses Too Short (Green Vinyl)
Label: Numero Group
Format: LP
Genre: Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk
$29.99
Availability: In stock
Syl Johnson’s first LP hit stores in the summer of 1969. True to its era, it wasn’t so much an album as a collection of singles. The four non-single tracks (“Soul Drippin’,” “Fox Hunting On The Weekend,” “Same Kind Of Thing,” and “I’ve Got The Real Thing”—none of them a throwaway) were outtakes tacked on to capitalize on the expanding long-player market. Prolific designer and photographer Jerry Griffith shot the cover on a South Michigan Avenue building’s balcony. Despite blaring its title in Christmas-y, green-and-red cover lettering, Dresses Too Short never found its season creatively or commercially, selling just a few thousand copies before being discontinued in the mid ’70s.