Name: Baby
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Channel: Jeff Howard & Lawrence Wise
Description: "Baby" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. Yep, it's a POP Ballad. Boy Loses Girl and Doesn't Want Her Skank-Ass Back. And, my very FIRST ever Collaboration!

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Yep, it's a POP Ballad. Boy Loses Girl and Doesn't Want Her Skank-Ass Back. And, my very FIRST ever Collaboration!

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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS

An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.

Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.

Song Info

Genre

R&B • Funk

Peak in subgenre #102

Author

Jeff Howard & Lawrence Wise

Rights

1985, 2007

Uploaded

June 01, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:08

Story behind the song

Jeff Howard was a neighbor and classmate of my brother Ned.  Also, he was a charter member of Ned's Go-Go Band, Total Groove Connection.  

Jeff was also curious about what made 'Cosmic Funk' tick (at that time, I was dropping tracks QUICK!).  "Baby" was a combined idea we both had.  It was intended to be a ballad right from the jump.  Jeff's contributions were the idea for the keyboard hook which opens the track (and, it's a classic), as well as the chorus of "Who You Gonna Love", to which I added "When I'm Not There".  

With the exception of those contributions, Jeff ISN'T physically on the track.  Still, I do consider it a collaboration, and my FIRST on a 'Cosmic Funk Orchestra' project.

So, HOW did the cassette-single DO the first time out in my 'hood in early '85?  Not too good, mainly because it was too 'poppy', and SANE--as compared to 'trademark-sounding stuff', like "Frida, Don't You Cry", "The  Ice Age", and the original 1983/1984 "Lucy Mae".

Also, compared to the other stuff, this one had a slightly better production to it.

Finally, this would be the ONLY OFFICIAL 'Cosmic Funk Orchestra'/'OSMOSIS' collaboration until 2006's "Da Brotha's 'Grimm'", "The Nuclear Crush" and "Pest Control".

Wow!

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