Roxanne's Back Side
LABEL: Select
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: D.J. Scratch Remixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1984
CATALOGUE NO: FMS 62256
RUNOUT GROOVES: FMS-62256A FW *PRESSED AT SOUND MAKERS*N.J. (Side A) FMS-62256B FW *PRESSED AT SOUND MAKERS*N.J. (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Reviewed in James Hamilton's Record Mirror column in February 1985 but the label shows a date of 1984, so it would most likely have been released at the end of 1984
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
ROXANNE ROX ON!
Get ready for the rap saga that’s taken American black kids by storm, and is already outdoing Johnnie Taylor’s old tales of ‘Jody’ (although it’s unlikely to be as long lasting as soul’s endless ‘Woman To Woman’ — ‘She’s Got Papers’ — ‘Another Man — ‘I Don’t Play That’ saga).
First of all there was UTFO ‘Roxanne, Roxanne’ (US Select FMS 62254), double-A-sided with the 0-109bpm ‘Hanging Out‘, in which Kangol Kid, Dr Ice & The Educated Rapper complain about a stuck-up Brooklyn girl called Roxanne and compare their unsuccessful attempts to chat her up, then (with the first few thousand rare pressings actually backed by their original 100bpm Full Force-created scratching instrumental cassetted off radio!) came the scolding-pitched young ROXANNE SHANTÉ ‘Roxanne’s Revenge’ (US Pop Art PA-7406) with her nagging reply, which prompted not only the similarly scolding SPARKY “D” ‘Sparky’s Turn (Roxanne You’re Through)’ (US NIA NI-1245) but also — getting back in on the act with of course the original Full Force track — ROXANNE (with UTFO) ‘The Real Roxanne’ (US Select FMS 62256). Stark and somewhat specialist though good fun, they all include various other dub, scratch and instrumental mixes, making the complete saga a cut-up caper for hip hop jocks, while the next chapter is rumoured to be ‘Roxanne’s Mother’! Roxanne had a baby, and can’t work no more?
ROXANNE with UTFO: ‘Roxanne, Roxanne’ (Streetwave XKHAN 506)
Half the jolting hip hop rap saga’s story so far is now here on 6-track mini-LP: UTFO’s original 100⅚bpm ‘Roxanne, Roxanne’ plus, stupidly instead of its instrumental (useful for scratchers), the 109⅓bpm ‘Hanging Out‘ and its 109¼bpm inst, with on the flip uncensored 101⅔bpm and bleeped “shit”-less 101⅓bpm versions of ROXANNE with UTFO’s ‘The Real Roxanne‘ plus its freakily scratched 100⅚bpm ‘Roxanne’s Back Side‘.
SIDE B: ROXANNE'S BACK SIDE Scratch It
REMIXED BY: Mixmaster Ice & Howie Tee
LENGTH: 05:37
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a D.J. cut-up.
SIDE A:
THE REAL ROXANNE Bleeped Version - Roxanne with U.T.F.O.
SIDE B:
THE REAL ROXANNE Uncensored Version - Roxanne with U.T.F.O.
