{"product_id":"doin-it-colored-lp","title":"Doin It!!!! (Colored LP)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRESSED ON BLUE VINYL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLost dark soul\/funk masterpiece from Hampton, Virginia, high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high school soul-bands are still rare. A ballad or two on the random Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless Legend’s mesmerizing entry on Columbus’s 1972 1st Annual Inner City Talent Expo notwithstanding, high school bands rarely struck into the realm of “grown folks” music. Enter The Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf this is categorized as a “funk” album – and it was for the last ten years, by those few lucky enough to own an original copy – it holds its own. But it was as a soul band, one as inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as the psychedelic-pop of the self-proclaimed “Black Moses,” Issac Hayes – that the Equatics shone. These young souls offered world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par with any of the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a group of teenagers could offer such an angst-ridden plea as that of Leo Davis’s “Merry Go Round” not only transcends the limitations that came from the band’s average age (seventeen, at the time of the album’s recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1 What They Doin? \u003cbr\u003eA2 Walk On By \u003cbr\u003eA3 Merry Go Round \u003cbr\u003eA4 Santana Part 1 \u003cbr\u003eA5 The Touch Of You \u003cbr\u003eB1 Santana Part II \u003cbr\u003eB2 Ain't No Sunshine \u003cbr\u003eB3 Cicso Fare \u003cbr\u003eB4 Where Is Love?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Equatics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53853206905175,"sku":"ZZ-NA5062C-LP","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0983\/1104\/5463\/files\/equaticsblue.png?v=1782183591","url":"https:\/\/www.discotecavinyl.com\/products\/doin-it-colored-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}