JOHHNY DAVIS "Life's A Party" UNRELEASED MODERN SOUL BOOGIE FUNK 7"

IMPORT REISSUE / NEW Double-sider from Johnny Davis and producer Reg Hudson (Hudson People) featuring the previously unreleased funk jam ‘Life’s A Party’, coupled with ’Expand Your Mind’, an in-demand mid-80s soul cut recorded in Bavaria. “I had a friend, Manfred Radtke, who had a small studio in Kitzingen, Germany. He offered me the chance to work in his studio and there I began to write songs in the style that I really liked, that came out of my soul and heart. One of my favourite bands was Zapp and they often worked with the voice box. At the time, music was very electronic and groups like Parliament were doing a mixture of smooth funk and electronics, and so I mixed them together to create my tracks.” (Johnny Davis, 2006) One of the real voices behind Milli Vanilli, Davis was from South Carolina and had lived much of his life in Germany after first being stationed there with the U.S. Army in the 1970s. When Reg Hudson moved to Germany in the early 80s, Davis had become a sought-aft