Shuggie Otis - Pling!
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From the 1974 album "Inspiration Information", released on the "Luaka Bop" label. This song is a mellow hang out tune. Background on Shuggie from wikipedia: rhythm and blues musician, bandleader, and impresario Johnny Otis. One source gives Otis' birth name as Johnny Otis, Jr., but since his father used his own birth name of John Veliotes when he ran for the California Assembly in the 1960s, Shuggie's family name at birth was probably Veliotes.[citation needed] Otis began performing professionally at the age of 12, often disguising himself with dark glasses and a false moustache so that he could play in nightclubs. Otis is a guitarist who also plays piano, organ, drums and bass. He released his first solo album in 1970. The Brothers Johnson's version of his composition "Strawberry Letter 23" reached #1 in the Billboard rhythm and blues chart and #5 in the Billboard pop chart in 1977. He has recorded with Frank Zappa (electric bass on "Peaches en Regalia" from Hot Rats), Al Kooper, Cal Tjader, Etta James, and Eddie Vinson, and more recently Mos Def. David Byrne recently re-released Inspiration Information, including some bonus tracks from "Freedom Flight", on his Luaka Bop record label. It the liner notes, the critic James Sullivan states that Shuggie was offered guitar duties in the Rolling Stones but declined.[citation needed]
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